Broadband Enhanced Chirality with Tunable Response in Hybrid Plasmonic Helical MetamaterialsShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Advanced Functional Materials, ISSN 1616-301X, E-ISSN 1616-3028, Vol. 31, no 20, article id 2010329Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Designing broadband enhanced chirality is of strong interest to the emerging fields of chiral chemistry and sensing, or to control the spin orbital momentum of photons in recently introduced nanophotonic chiral quantum and classical optical applications. However, chiral light-matter interactions have an extremely weak nature, are difficult to control and enhance, and cannot be made tunable or broadband. In addition, planar ultrathin nanophotonic structures to achieve strong, broadband, and tunable chirality at the technologically important visible to ultraviolet spectrum still remain elusive. Here, these important problems are tackled by experimentally demonstrating and theoretically verifying spectrally tunable, extremely large, and broadband chiroptical response by nanohelical metamaterials. The reported new designs of all-dielectric and dielectric-metallic (hybrid) plasmonic metamaterials permit the largest and broadest ever measured chiral Kuhns dissymmetry factor achieved by a large-scale nanophotonic structure. In addition, the strong circular dichroism of the presented bottom-up fabricated optical metamaterials can be tuned by varying their dimensions and proportions between their dielectric and plasmonic helical subsections. The currently demonstrated ultrathin optical metamaterials are expected to provide a substantial boost to the developing field of chiroptics leading to significantly enhanced and broadband chiral light-matter interactions at the nanoscale.
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WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH , 2021. Vol. 31, no 20, article id 2010329
Keywords [en]
chirality; helical nanostructures; metamaterials; plasmonics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-174196DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202010329ISI: 000618943600001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-174196DiVA, id: diva2:1537497
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Funding Agencies|National Science FoundationNational Science Foundation (NSF) [DMR 1808715]; Air Force Office of Scientific ResearchUnited States Department of DefenseAir Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) [FA9550-18-1-0360]; Nebraska Materials Research Science and Engineering Center [DMR 1420645]; Swedish Knut and Alice Wallenbergs Foundation; American Chemical Society/Petrol Research Fund; German Research Foundation (DFG)German Research Foundation (DFG) [FE 1532/1-1]; Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (ONR YIP)Office of Naval Research [N00014-19-1-2384]; University of Nebraska Foundation; J. A. Woollam Foundation
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