Mayerhöfer, Thomas G. Knipper, Richard Hübner, Uwe Cialla-May, Dana Weber, Karina Meyer, Hans-Georg Popp, Jürgen Ultra Sensing by Combining Extraordinary Optical Transmission with Perfect Absorption Extraordinary optical transmission and perfect absorption are two plasmonic-based optical phenomenona that are both accompanied by high local field enhancements that can be exploited for biological and chemical sensing. Here we merge both phenomenona in a slit array metamaterial perfect absorber consisting of a dielectric layer sandwiched between two metallic layers of which the upper layer is perforated with a periodic array of slits. Period and dimensions of the slits and thickness of the dielectric layer are tuned in a way that virtually all light of a certain wavelength incident on the surface passes through the slits and is subsequently absorbed. As a consequence, light–matter interaction is greatly enhanced in the slits. Thus, already small concentrations of analytes down to a monolayer attached to the sidewalls of the slits can be detected by refractive index sensing and identified by their spectral fingerprints with a standard mid-infrared lab spectrometer. dielectric layer;slit array metamaterial;Extraordinary Optical Transmission 2015-11-18
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10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00321.s003