太赫兹辐射
生物传感器
折射率
纳米技术
四极
偶极子
激发
材料科学
光电子学
光学
物理
原子物理学
量子力学
作者
Bingwei Liu,Yan Peng,Zuanming Jin,Xu Wu,Hongyu Gu,Dongshan Wei,Yiming Zhu,Songlin Zhuang
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.cej.2023.142347
摘要
A quasi-bound state in the continuum (QBIC) has unique attraction in optical switch, nonlinearity, communication, and sensing due to its ultrahigh radiation quality (Q) factor. The QBIC observed in metasurfaces also provides a feasible platform to achieve in-plane strong light-matter interaction, as well as to develop ultrasensitive biosensor. However, the existing metasurface designs are difficult to realize highly efficient excitation and high-performance sensing of QBIC in terahertz (THz) band. Here, we manipulate the interference coupling between electric quadrupole and magnetic dipole by introducing an asymmetry α into the metallic metasurface structure, which excites ultrahigh quality QBIC resonance with Q factor of up to 503. Correspondingly, light field energy constrained by the metasurface and effective sensing area achieved enormous increases of about 400% and 1300%, respectively, which greatly expands the spatial extent and intensity of light-matter interaction. Simulations and experiments show that the proposed QBIC metasurface deliver a high refractive index sensitivity reaching 420 GHz/RIU, where RIU is the refractive index unit, and its direct limit of detection (LoD) for trace homocysteine (Hcy) molecules is 12.5 pmol/μL. Its performance is about 40-times better than that of the classical Dipole mode. This work provides a new avenue to achieve rapid, precise, and nondestructive sensing of trace molecules, and has potential applications in the fields of biochemical reaction monitoring, photocatalysis and photobiomodulation.
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