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Polarization-selective nanogold absorber by twisted stacking

Fei Wang1,2, Zexiang Han1, Juehan Sun1,3, Wajid Ali1,3, Xiaoli Wang1,3( ), Zhiyong Tang1,2,3
CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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This work presents a twisted stacked gold metamaterial displaying polarization-selective ultrahigh absorption performance with an adjustable spectral range.

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Metamaterial absorbers show great promise for applications in optical manipulation, photodetection, solar energy harvesting, and photocatalysis. In this work, we present a twisted stacked metamaterial design that serves as a plasmonic perfect absorber with polarization selectivity. Leveraging effective energy localization, the metamaterial realizes a near-unity absorbance of up to 99.6% for right circularly polarized incidence and 97.2% for left circularly polarized incidence. At a longer wavelength in the visible range, the chiral metamaterial becomes more sensitive to the polarization state of the incident wave, retaining an ultrahigh absorption of light (~ 94%) for only a given polarization state, that is, light in this polarization state is effectively shielded. A giant circular dichroism signal of up to 7° can be simultaneously observed. Electromagnetic field and charge distribution simulations further reveal that the ultrahigh performance of the design is attributed to the interplay between cavity coupling, magnetic resonances, and plasmonic coupling. Besides switchable and tunable chirality, the plasmonic metamaterial presents a near-perfect absorption band with tunable operational wavelengths. We envision that the high-performance chiral gold metamaterial proposed here can serve as a good candidate for light trapping, chirality sensing, polarized light detection, and polarization-enhanced photocatalysis.

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perfect absorberchiralityplasmonicmetal–dielectric–metalmagnetic field enhancement

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Nano Research
Volume 16 Issue 7,
July 2023
Pages 10392-10400
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-023-5518-0
Cite this article:
Wang F, Han Z, Sun J, et al. Polarization-selective nanogold absorber by twisted stacking. Nano Research, 2023, 16(7): 10392-10400. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5518-0
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Received: 29 November 2022
Revised: 08 January 2023
Accepted: 18 January 2023
Published: 13 April 2023
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