Tunable mid-infrared sensing based on graphene-metal hybrid structure

IF 2.9 3区物理与天体物理 Q3 NANOSCIENCE & NANOTECHNOLOGY

Physica E-low-dimensional Systems & Nanostructures Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI:10.1016/j.physe.2025.116268

Xiaowei Wang , Zhihui Chen , Zhiyuan Wang , Guang Feng , Yang Wang , Shan Li , Yibiao Yang , Yuying Hao

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Abstract

Improving the emission efficiency of molecules or quantum dots is one of the effective means to improve the sensitivity of sensing. Here we provide a graphene-metal hybrid structure to achieve sensitivity detection in mid-infrared. The graphene-metal hybrid structure well coupling with a dipole source in mid-infrared was constructed. And then the high quality resonance peak can be detected. For different molecular detection applications, the resonance window can be controlled by geometrical parameters of metal structure in the mid-infrared range. Meanwhile the resonance wavelengths can be adjusted with graphene's chemical potential and the chemical potential of graphene can be controlled through a varying gate voltage, and the emission enhancement ratio was 105 times on average. The hybrid structures also show excellent results in different background refractive indices. The sensitivity of the hybrid structure as a refractive index sensor reaches 5367 nm/RIU. All of our analyses show that the hybrid structure can be used as a better mid-infrared sensor.

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Physica E-low-dimensional Systems & Nanostructures 物理-纳米科技

CiteScore

7.30

自引率

6.10%

发文量

356

审稿时长

65 days

期刊介绍： Physica E: Low-dimensional systems and nanostructures contains papers and invited review articles on the fundamental and applied aspects of physics in low-dimensional electron systems, in semiconductor heterostructures, oxide interfaces, quantum wells and superlattices, quantum wires and dots, novel quantum states of matter such as topological insulators, and Weyl semimetals. Both theoretical and experimental contributions are invited. Topics suitable for publication in this journal include spin related phenomena, optical and transport properties, many-body effects, integer and fractional quantum Hall effects, quantum spin Hall effect, single electron effects and devices, Majorana fermions, and other novel phenomena. Keywords: • topological insulators/superconductors, majorana fermions, Wyel semimetals; • quantum and neuromorphic computing/quantum information physics and devices based on low dimensional systems; • layered superconductivity, low dimensional systems with superconducting proximity effect; • 2D materials such as transition metal dichalcogenides; • oxide heterostructures including ZnO, SrTiO3 etc; • carbon nanostructures (graphene, carbon nanotubes, diamond NV center, etc.) • quantum wells and superlattices; • quantum Hall effect, quantum spin Hall effect, quantum anomalous Hall effect; • optical- and phonons-related phenomena; • magnetic-semiconductor structures; • charge/spin-, magnon-, skyrmion-, Cooper pair- and majorana fermion- transport and tunneling; • ultra-fast nonlinear optical phenomena; • novel devices and applications (such as high performance sensor, solar cell, etc); • novel growth and fabrication techniques for nanostructures