• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 8, Issue 11, 1749 (2020)
Bobo Du1、2, Yinlan Ruan2、3、*, Dexing Yang1、6, Peipei Jia2、3, Shoufei Gao4, Yingying Wang4, Pu Wang5, and Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem2、3
Author Affiliations
  • 1MOE Key Laboratory of Material Physics and Chemistry under Extraordinary Conditions, and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Physical Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China
  • 2Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
  • 3ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
  • 4Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
  • 5Institute of Laser Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
  • 6e-mail: dxyang@nwpu.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.397409 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Bobo Du, Yinlan Ruan, Dexing Yang, Peipei Jia, Shoufei Gao, Yingying Wang, Pu Wang, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem. Freestanding metal nanohole array for high-performance applications[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(11): 1749 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Plasmonic devices using periodic metallic nanostructures have recently gained tremendous interest for color filters, sensing, surface enhanced spectroscopy, and enhanced photoluminescence, etc. However, the performance of such plasmonic devices is severely hampered by the solid substrates supporting the metallic nanostructures. Here, a strategy for freestanding metallic nanomembranes is introduced by taking advantages of hollow substrate structures. Large-area and highly uniform gold nanomembranes with nanohole array are fabricated via a flexible and simple replication-releasing method. The hollow structures include a hollow core fiber with 30 μm core diameter and two ferrules with their hole diameter as 125 and 500 μm, respectively. As a proof-of-concept demonstration, 2 times higher sensitivity of the bulk refractive index is obtained with this platform compared to that of a counterpart on a solid silica substrate. Such a portable and compact configuration provides unique opportunities to explore the intrinsic properties of the metal nanomembranes and paves a new way to fabricate high-performance plasmonic devices for biomolecule sensing and color filter.
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    Bobo Du, Yinlan Ruan, Dexing Yang, Peipei Jia, Shoufei Gao, Yingying Wang, Pu Wang, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem. Freestanding metal nanohole array for high-performance applications[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(11): 1749
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