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Kim S, Wu S, Jian R, Xiong G, Luo T. Design of a High-Performance Titanium Nitride Metastructure-Based Solar Absorber Using Quantum Computing-Assisted Optimization. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:40606-40613. [PMID: 37594734 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c08214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/19/2023]
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Metastructures of titanium nitride (TiN), a plasmonic refractory material, can potentially achieve high solar absorptance while operating at elevated temperatures, but the design has been driven by expert intuition. Here, we design a high-performance solar absorber based on TiN metastructures using quantum computing-assisted optimization. The optimization scheme includes machine learning, quantum annealing, and optical simulation in an iterative cycle. It designs an optimal structure with solar absorptance > 95% within 40 h, much faster than an exhaustive search. Analysis of electric field distributions demonstrates that combined effects of Fabry-Perot interferences and surface plasmonic resonances contribute to the broadband high absorption efficiency of the optimally designed metastructure. The designed absorber may exhibit great potential for solar energy harvesting applications, and the optimization scheme can be applied to the design of other complex functional materials.
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- Seongmin Kim
- Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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- Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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Bauman SJ, Darweesh AA, Furr M, Magee M, Argyropoulos C, Herzog JB. Tunable SERS Enhancement via Sub-nanometer Gap Metasurfaces. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:15541-15548. [PMID: 35344345 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c01335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Raman sensing is a powerful technique for detecting chemical signatures, especially when combined with optical enhancement techniques such as using substrates containing plasmonic nanostructures. In this work, we successfully demonstrated surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) of two analytes adsorbed onto gold nanosphere metasurfaces with tunable subnanometer gap widths. These metasurfaces, which push the bounds of previously studied SERS nanostructure feature sizes, were fabricated with precise control of the intersphere gap width to within 1 nm for gaps close to and below 1 nm. Analyte Raman spectra were measured for samples for a range of gap widths, and the surface-affected signal enhancement was found to increase with decreasing gap width, as expected and corroborated via electromagnetic field modeling. Interestingly, an enhancement quenching effect was observed below gaps of around 1 nm. We believe this to be one of the few studies of gap-width-dependent SERS for the subnanometer range, and the results suggest the potential of such methods as a probe of subnanometer scale effects at the interface between plasmonic nanostructures. With further study, we believe that tunable sub-nanometer gap metasurfaces could be a useful tool for the study of nonlocal and quantum enhancement-quenching effects. This could aid the development of optimized Raman-based sensors for a variety of applications.
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- Stephen J Bauman
- Microelectronics-Photonics Graduate Program, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, United States
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- Microelectronics-Photonics Graduate Program, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, United States
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- R.B. Annis School of Engineering, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana 46227, United States
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- R.B. Annis School of Engineering, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana 46227, United States
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, United States
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- R.B. Annis School of Engineering, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana 46227, United States
- Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, United States
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Choi JH, Choi M, Ho TS, Kim S, Choi S, Choi SH, Byun KM. Biological SERS-active sensor platform based on flexible silk fibroin film and gold nanoislands. OPTICS EXPRESS 2022; 30:7782-7792. [PMID: 35299533 DOI: 10.1364/oe.452665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2021] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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In contrast to conventional surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) platforms implemented on non-biological substrates, silk fibroin has the unique advantages of long-term biosafety and controllable biodegradability for in vitro and in vivo biomedical applications, as well as flexibility and process-compatibility. In this study, a silk fibroin film was developed to fabricate a flexible SERS sensor template with nanogap-rich gold nanoislands. The proposed biological SERS platform presents fairly good enhancements in detection performance such as detection limit, sensitivity, and signal-to-noise ratio. In particular, the sensitivity improvement was by more than 10 times compared to that of the counterpart sample, and an excellent spatial reproducibility of 2.8% was achieved. In addition, the near-field calculation results were consistent with the experimental results, and the effect of surface roughness of the silk substrate was investigated in a quantitative way. It is believed that biological SERS-active sensors could provide the potential for highly sensitive, cost-effective, and easily customizable nanophotonic platforms that include new capabilities for future healthcare devices.
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Choi JH, Choi M, Kang T, Ho TS, Choi SH, Byun KM. Combination of Porous Silk Fibroin Substrate and Gold Nanocracks as a Novel SERS Platform for a High-Sensitivity Biosensor. BIOSENSORS 2021; 11:441. [PMID: 34821657 PMCID: PMC8615832 DOI: 10.3390/bios11110441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Revised: 10/28/2021] [Accepted: 11/04/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Novel concepts for developing a surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensor based on biocompatible materials offer great potential in versatile applications, including wearable and in vivo monitoring of target analytes. Here, we report a highly sensitive SERS sensor consisting of a biocompatible silk fibroin substrate with a high porosity and gold nanocracks. Our silk-based SERS detection takes advantage of strong local field enhancement in the nanoscale crack regions induced by gold nanostructures evaporated on a porous silk substrate. The SERS performance of the proposed sensor is evaluated in terms of detection limit, sensitivity, and linearity. Compared to the performance of a counterpart SERS sensor with a thin gold film, SERS results using 4-ABT analytes present that a significant improvement in the detection limit and sensitivity by more than 4 times, and a good linearity and a wide dynamic range is achieved. More interestingly, overlap is integral, and a quantitative measure of the local field enhancement is highly consistent with the experimental SERS enhancement.
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- Ji Hyeon Choi
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin 17104, Korea;
- Department of Electronics and Information Convergence Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin 17104, Korea;
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- Medical Device R&D Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam 13695, Korea;
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- Department of Electronics and Information Convergence Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin 17104, Korea;
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yonsei University, 1 Yonseidae-gil, Wonju 26493, Korea;
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yonsei University, 1 Yonseidae-gil, Wonju 26493, Korea;
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin 17104, Korea;
- Department of Electronics and Information Convergence Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin 17104, Korea;
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Le-The H, Lozeman JJA, Lafuente M, Muñoz P, Bomer JG, Duy-Tong H, Berenschot E, van den Berg A, Tas NR, Odijk M, Eijkel JCT. Wafer-scale fabrication of high-quality tunable gold nanogap arrays for surface-enhanced Raman scattering. NANOSCALE 2019; 11:12152-12160. [PMID: 31194202 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr02215e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We report a robust and high-yield fabrication method for wafer-scale patterning of high-quality arrays of dense gold nanogaps, combining displacement Talbot lithography based shrink-etching with dry etching, wet etching, and thin film deposition techniques. By using the self-sharpening of <111>-oriented silicon crystal planes during the wet etching process, silicon structures with extremely smooth nanogaps are obtained. Subsequent conformal deposition of a silicon nitride layer and a gold layer results in dense arrays of narrow gold nanogaps. Using this method, we successfully fabricate high-quality Au nanogaps down to 10 nm over full wafer areas. Moreover, the gap spacing can be tuned by changing the thickness of deposited Au layers. Since the roughness of the template is minimized by the crystallographic etching of silicon, the roughness of the gold nanogaps depends almost exclusively on the roughness of the sputtered gold layers. Additionally, our fabricated Au nanogaps show a significant enhancement of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) signals of benzenethiol molecules chemisorbed on the structure surface, at an average enhancement factor up to 1.5 × 106.
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- Hai Le-The
- BIOS Lab-on-a-Chip Group, MESA+ Institute, Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands.
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- BIOS Lab-on-a-Chip Group, MESA+ Institute, Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands.
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- Nanoscience Institute of Aragon, Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, University of Zaragoza, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
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- Optical Sciences Group, MESA+ Institute, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands
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- BIOS Lab-on-a-Chip Group, MESA+ Institute, Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands.
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- Faculty of Engineering, Vietnamese German University, Thu Dau Mot City, Binh Duong Province, Vietnam
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- Mesoscale Chemical Systems Group, MESA+ Institute, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands
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- BIOS Lab-on-a-Chip Group, MESA+ Institute, Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands.
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- Mesoscale Chemical Systems Group, MESA+ Institute, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands
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- BIOS Lab-on-a-Chip Group, MESA+ Institute, Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands.
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- BIOS Lab-on-a-Chip Group, MESA+ Institute, Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands.
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Choi CJ, Semancik S. Effect of interdome spacing on the resonance properties of plasmonic nanodome arrays for label-free optical sensing. OPTICS EXPRESS 2013; 21:28304-28313. [PMID: 24514341 DOI: 10.1364/oe.21.028304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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In this paper, we report on experimental and theoretical studies that investigate how the structural properties of plasmonic nanodome array devices determine their optical properties and sensing performance. We examined the effect of the interdome gap spacing within the plasmonic array structures on the performance for detection of change in local refractive index environment for label-free capture affinity biosensing applications. Optical sensing properties were characterized for nanodome array devices with interdome spacings of 14 nm, 40 nm, and 79 nm, as well as for a device where adjacent domes are in contact. For each interdome spacing, the extinction spectrum was measured using a broadband reflection instrumentation, and finite-difference-time-domain (FDTD) simulation was used to model the local electric field distribution associated with the resonances. Based on these studies, we predict that nanodome array devices with gap between 14 nm to 20 nm provide optimal label-free capture affinity biosensing performances, where the dipole resonance mode exhibits the highest overall surface sensitivity, as well as the lowest limit of detection.
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