{"title":"Optomechanical tension and crumpling of 2D semiconductors","authors":"A. Poshakinskiy, I. Avdeev, A. Poddubny","doi":"10.1117/12.2539440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2539440","url":null,"abstract":"We show that mechanical properties of atomically thin crystals, such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides can be efficiently controlled by optical excitation. Illumination by a plane electromagnetic wave with the frequency close to plasmon or exciton resonance affects directly the membrane tension. Depending on the sign of the frequency detuning from the resonance, the membrane is either stretched or crumpled by light. In the latter case, the optomechanical crumpling force competes with the rigidity and the radiation pressure that try to flatten the membrane. When the excitation intensity surpasses the critical value, transition to the crumpled phase occurs.","PeriodicalId":131350,"journal":{"name":"Micro + Nano Materials, Devices, and Applications","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131594134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shaun Lung, N. Pedersen, Kai Wang, K. Zangeneh Kamali, F. Setzpfandt, A. Sukhorukov
{"title":"Optical metagrating for one-shot polarization measurements","authors":"Shaun Lung, N. Pedersen, Kai Wang, K. Zangeneh Kamali, F. Setzpfandt, A. Sukhorukov","doi":"10.1117/12.2539973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2539973","url":null,"abstract":"We formulate a new conceptual approach for one-shot full Stokes polarization measurement with a single meta- grating, and develop novel design through advanced computational optimization of individual nano-resonator properties delivering robust operation even under strong fabrication inaccuracy. We fabricated the metasurface from amorphous silicon nanostructures deposited on glass, and experimentally confirmed accurate optical polarization reconstruction. We anticipate that our new concept will facilitate diverse applications such as optimal polarization state imaging tailored for computer vision or quantum state characterization.","PeriodicalId":131350,"journal":{"name":"Micro + Nano Materials, Devices, and Applications","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121716540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ablation control by applying magnetic and electric fields","authors":"J. Maksimovic, T. Katkus, S. Ng, S. Juodkazis","doi":"10.1117/12.2541090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2541090","url":null,"abstract":"Laser fabrication with ultra-short laser pulses (sub-1 ps) have the ability for precise energy delivery to target materials for ablation, spallation or polymerisation down to sub-wavelength resolution. We show, that by applying electrical and magnetic fields, the electron-ion ablation plasma can be controlled following the Lorentz force exerted on to the plasma F = eE + e[v ×B], where v is velocity of charge e, E is the applied electrical bias and B is the magnetic flux density. The vectorial nature of the Lorentz force was investigated using the ablation of silicon. The application potential for ablation debris control and mass, charge spectroscopes of ablated materials is discussed.","PeriodicalId":131350,"journal":{"name":"Micro + Nano Materials, Devices, and Applications","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122586550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Silicon nitride based fluidically tuned photonic crystal for bio-sensing application","authors":"Manoranjan Kumar, S. M, P. T., N. K.","doi":"10.1117/12.2539798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2539798","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, silicon nitride (Si3N4) based fluidically tuned photonic crystal for a biosensing application is presented. The optical structure is designed on Si3N4 on insulator. The Si3N4 on insulator substrate is found to be one of the most promising materials for the design of bio- sensor at short wavelength. At short wavelength Si3N4 material is found to be most promising material for optical integrated circuits. The structure of the sensor consists of Silicon nitride input and output waveguides separated by a fluidically tuned photonic crystal. Fluidically tuned photonic crystal acts as a sensing region. The sensitivity is based on refractive index of fluidically tuned photonic crystal. The proposed sensor is designed to operate in the visible wavelength range of 660nm. Fluidically tuned photonic crystal consists of rectangular photonic crystal array. The holes of photonic crystal are approximately 160nm in diameter and height is 200nm. Organic light emitting diode is used as an optical source. OLED is coupled to input waveguide. The PDMS microfluidic channel is moulded on the rectangular photonic crystal structure. The structure is modelled and analysis is carried out by using Lumerical mode solution and Lumerical Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) simulation tools. Such devices if fabricated can be employed for early detection of various diseases related to pathological parameters.","PeriodicalId":131350,"journal":{"name":"Micro + Nano Materials, Devices, and Applications","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127409729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Faris, Shahin Shahidan, Jingchao Song, T. James, P. Mulvaney, Ann Roberts
{"title":"Scalable and consistent fabrication of plasmonic colors via nanoimprint lithography","authors":"M. Faris, Shahin Shahidan, Jingchao Song, T. James, P. Mulvaney, Ann Roberts","doi":"10.1117/12.2539079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2539079","url":null,"abstract":"We utilised thermal and UV-assisted Nanoimprint Lithography (NIL) i.e. thermal and UV-assisted to produce plasmonic coloration, and compare their ability for scalable fabrication. Several designs are presented and we show the generated colors are dependent on their geometry and the direction of polarisation of incident illumination. Finally, we demonstrated UV-NIL for consistent production of large-area (0.6×0.4 cm2) plasmonic color with extended color gamut.","PeriodicalId":131350,"journal":{"name":"Micro + Nano Materials, Devices, and Applications","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128572404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mid infrared metasurfaces for photo-thermal energy conversion","authors":"Y. Nishijima, Naoki To, Takuhiro Kumagai","doi":"10.1117/12.2541073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2541073","url":null,"abstract":"Mid infrared metasurfaces is one of the key technology for sensors, energy harvesters in renewable society. Especially absorption type of metasurfaces can be applied for mid infrared light source and detectors according to Kirchhoff's law. Here we demonstrate the recent advances of metasurface, fabrication (lithography/lithography free), optical characterization of reflection ,scattering and absorption, photo-thermal energy conversion, and sensing applications in mid infrared wavelength. The experimentally measured optical properties were compared with simulations by finite difference time-domain (FDTD) method and finite element method (FEM).","PeriodicalId":131350,"journal":{"name":"Micro + Nano Materials, Devices, and Applications","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127948377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Hashtroudi, R. Savub, R. Kumar, S. Moshkalev, M. Shafiei
{"title":"Hybrid two-dimensional nanostructured hydrogen gas sensors","authors":"H. Hashtroudi, R. Savub, R. Kumar, S. Moshkalev, M. Shafiei","doi":"10.1117/12.2539857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2539857","url":null,"abstract":"Two-dimensional (2D) nanostructured materials such as reduced graphene oxide (rGO) are highly promising for hydrogen (H2) sensing due to their narrow bandgap, number of active sites, and high surface area. Detection of hydrogen gas, a renewable and clean source of energy, in the atmosphere is of great importance in maintaining safety at all stages of hydrogen production, storage and use. In this work, a novel conductometric sensor has been developed based on hybrid 2D nanostructured rGO doped with Pd nanoparticles (Pd/rGO) to evaluate its sensing performance towards hydrogen with different concentrations (up to 1%). Various sensing parameters including sensitivity, response/recovery time, stability, and low detection limit have been investigated throughout the experiment. We also evaluate performance of the developed sensors at different operating temperatures (room temperature up to 120°C). Material properties of hybrid Pd/rGO film including surface morphologies, crystallinity, molecular vibration, functional groups, and oxidation states are sufficiently analysed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), profilometer, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Raman spectroscopy. Furthermore, fundamental sensing mechanism governing the interactions between Pd/rGO and the hydrogen molecules are studied. It is anticipated that materials and techniques described in this work offers solutions to develop highly sensitive and portable hydrogen sensors with low power consumption and low fabrication and operation cost.","PeriodicalId":131350,"journal":{"name":"Micro + Nano Materials, Devices, and Applications","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132851539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Md Abdullah Al Mamun, T. Katkus, S. Juodkazis, P. Stoddart
{"title":"An optical fiber microprobe for surface-enhanced Raman scattering sensing with enhanced signal-to-background ratio","authors":"Md Abdullah Al Mamun, T. Katkus, S. Juodkazis, P. Stoddart","doi":"10.1117/12.2541189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2541189","url":null,"abstract":"Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a highly sensitive and versatile analytical technique that can be implemented on an optical fiber platform for use in challenging environments. This work has sought to address a major factor limiting the use of optical fibers for SERS analytical applications, namely the silica Raman background generated inside the fiber can make it difficult to detect the target analyte. Two different approaches were investigated to address this problem. Firstly, double clad fiber (DCF) was found to increase the collection of Raman scattered signal from the analyte, giving up to twelve-fold improvement in the signal-to-background ratio (SBR). Secondly, a prototype microfilter was manufactured by femtosecond laser machining and attached directly to the DCF tip. Its performance in rejecting background signal was then evaluated. When taking the lengths of the optical fibers into account, the filtered DCF microprobe delivers 7.0 SBR.cm, while the bare DCF probe provided 3.0 SBR.cm. Therefore, the microfilter assembly more than doubled the performance of the SERS probe and, with further optimization in future, it shows great promise for ultra-compact SERS and Raman optical fiber probes.","PeriodicalId":131350,"journal":{"name":"Micro + Nano Materials, Devices, and Applications","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124989341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frequency mixing in nonlinear interaction of one-way edge-modes of topological photonic crystals","authors":"Z. Lan, J. You, N. Panoiu","doi":"10.1117/12.2539874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2539874","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate topological photonic crystals specially designed such that the frequency band gaps appear around ω0, 2ω0, 3ω0 and, more importantly, each band gap contains exactly one unidirectional edge mode. These one-way edge modes are then utilized to implement key nonlinear frequency mixing processes, such as second- and third-harmonic generation.","PeriodicalId":131350,"journal":{"name":"Micro + Nano Materials, Devices, and Applications","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126183613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Schartner, L. Nguyen, D. Otten, Zhengang Yu, D. Lancaster, H. Ebendorff‐Heidepriem, S. Warren-Smith
{"title":"Multi-point high temperature optical fiber sensor","authors":"E. Schartner, L. Nguyen, D. Otten, Zhengang Yu, D. Lancaster, H. Ebendorff‐Heidepriem, S. Warren-Smith","doi":"10.1117/12.2541105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2541105","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to perform spatially resolved measurement of extreme temperatures, the order of 1000°C and above, would yield enormous benefit to many heavy industrial processes. While optical fibers can provide spatial information along their length through distributed and multi-point sensing techniques, operation at such temperatures is an area of ongoing research and development. A challenge is that conventional optical fibers, fabricated with a chemically doped core, suffer dopant diffusion at these high temperatures, ultimately limiting their operating lifespan. We can overcome this limitation by using specialty pure silica glass fibers, such as microstructured optical fibers. In this work we demonstrate the ability to use such fibers in a significantly multiplexed configuration with twenty fiber Bragg grating sensing elements written via femtosecond laser ablation.","PeriodicalId":131350,"journal":{"name":"Micro + Nano Materials, Devices, and Applications","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114993507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}