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Title: Broadband infrared circular dichroism in chiral metasurface absorbers

Abstract

Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and it is essential in many fields, but natural materials possess weak and narrow-band chiroptical effects. In this work, chiral plasmonic metasurface absorbers are designed and demonstrated to achieve large broadband infrared circular dichroism (CD). The broadband chiral absorber is made of multiple double-rectangle resonators with different sizes, showing strong absorption of left-handed or right-handed circularly polarized (LCP or RCP) light above 0.7 and large CD in absorption more than 0.5 covering the wavelength range from 1.35 mu m to 1.85 mu m. High broadband polarization-dependent local temperature increase is also obtained. The switchable infrared reflective chiral images are further presented by changing the wavelength and polarization of incident light. The broadband chiral metasurface absorbers promise future applications in many areas such as polarization detection, thermophotovoltaics, and chiral imaging.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO (United States)
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials
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Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
National Science Foundation (NSF); US Office of Naval Research (ONR); USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1774620
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1617394
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; DMR-1552871; ECCS-1653032; N00014-16-1-2408
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nanotechnology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 31; Journal Issue: 29; Journal ID: ISSN 0957-4484
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Citation Formats

Ouyang, Leixin, Rosenmann, Daniel, Czaplewski, David A., Gao, Jie, and Yang, Xiaodong. Broadband infrared circular dichroism in chiral metasurface absorbers. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1088/1361-6528/ab88ea.
Ouyang, Leixin, Rosenmann, Daniel, Czaplewski, David A., Gao, Jie, & Yang, Xiaodong. Broadband infrared circular dichroism in chiral metasurface absorbers. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ab88ea
Ouyang, Leixin, Rosenmann, Daniel, Czaplewski, David A., Gao, Jie, and Yang, Xiaodong. Wed . "Broadband infrared circular dichroism in chiral metasurface absorbers". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ab88ea. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1774620.
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title = {Broadband infrared circular dichroism in chiral metasurface absorbers},
author = {Ouyang, Leixin and Rosenmann, Daniel and Czaplewski, David A. and Gao, Jie and Yang, Xiaodong},
abstractNote = {Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and it is essential in many fields, but natural materials possess weak and narrow-band chiroptical effects. In this work, chiral plasmonic metasurface absorbers are designed and demonstrated to achieve large broadband infrared circular dichroism (CD). The broadband chiral absorber is made of multiple double-rectangle resonators with different sizes, showing strong absorption of left-handed or right-handed circularly polarized (LCP or RCP) light above 0.7 and large CD in absorption more than 0.5 covering the wavelength range from 1.35 mu m to 1.85 mu m. High broadband polarization-dependent local temperature increase is also obtained. The switchable infrared reflective chiral images are further presented by changing the wavelength and polarization of incident light. The broadband chiral metasurface absorbers promise future applications in many areas such as polarization detection, thermophotovoltaics, and chiral imaging.},
doi = {10.1088/1361-6528/ab88ea},
journal = {Nanotechnology},
number = 29,
volume = 31,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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