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Dielectric Tetramer Nanoresonators Supporting Strong Superchiral Fields for Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy

Ye, Longfang
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Li, Jingyan
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Richter, Felix Ulrich  
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November 8, 2023
Acs Photonics

Chirality (C) is a fundamental property of objects, in terms of symmetry. It is extremely important to sense and distinguish chiral molecules in the fields of biochemistry, science, and medicine. Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectroscopy, obtained from the differential absorption of left- and right- circularly polarized light (CPL) in the infrared range, is a promising technique for enantiomeric detection and separation. However, VCD signals are typically very weak for most small molecules. Dielectric metasurfaces are an emerging platform to enhance the sensitivity of VCD spectroscopy of chiral molecules via superchiral field manipulation. Here, we demonstrate a dielectric metasurface consisting of achiral germanium (Ge) tetramer nanoresonators that provide a proper and accessible high C enhancement (C-E). We realize a maximum C enhancement (C-E_max) with respect to the incident CPL (C-E_max = C-max/C-RCP) of more than 750. The volume-averaged C enhancement (C-E_ave = C-ave/C-RCP) is 148 in the 50 nm thick region above the sample surface and 215 in the central region of the structure. Especially, the corresponding C-E_ave values are more than 89 and 183 even when a 50 nm thick chiral lossy molecular layer is coated on the metasurface. The metasurface benefits from geometrically achiral nanostructure design to eliminate intrinsic background chiral-optical signal from the substrate, which is useful in chiral sensing, enantioselectivity, and VCD spectroscopy applications in the mid-infrared range.

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research article
DOI
10.1021/acsphotonics.3c01186
Web of Science ID

WOS:001128311000001

Author(s)
Ye, Longfang
Li, Jingyan
Richter, Felix Ulrich  
Jahani, Yasaman  
Lu, Rui
Lee, Bo Ray
Tseng, Ming Lun
Altug, Hatice  
Date Issued

2023-11-08

Publisher

Amer Chemical Soc

Published in
Acs Photonics
Volume

10

Issue

12

Start page

4377

End page

4384

Subjects

Technology

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Physical Sciences

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Optical Chirality

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Mid-Infrared

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Dielectricmetasurface

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Nanoresonator

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Vibrational Circulardichroism (Vcd)

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Chiral Sensing

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REVIEWED

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BIOS  
FunderGrant Number

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

U2230118

NSAF

JCYJ20210324121606017

Shenzhen Science and Technology Program

20720210048

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February 20, 2024
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