Scalable and Tunable Periodic Graphene Nanohole Arrays for Mid-Infrared Plasmonics.

Gopalan, Kavitha K; Paulillo, Bruno; Mackenzie, David M A; Rodrigo, Daniel; Bareza, Nestor; Whelan, Patrick R; Shivayogimath, Abhay; Pruneri, Valerio · Nano Lett · 2018

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Despite its great potential for a wide variety of devices, especially mid-infrared biosensors and photodetectors, graphene plasmonics is still confined to academic research. A major reason is the fact that, so far, expensive and low-throughput lithography techniques are needed to fabricate graphene nanostructures. Here, we report for the first time a detailed experimental study on electrostatically tunable graphene nanohole array surfaces with periods down to 100 nm, showing clear plasmonic response in the range ∼1300-1600 cm<sup>-1</sup>, which can be fabricated by a scalable nanoimprint technique. Such large area plasmonic nanostructures are suitable for industrial applications, for example, surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) sensing, as they combine easy design, extreme field confinement, and the possibility to excite multiple plasmon modes enabling multiband sensing, a feature not readily available in nanoribbons or other localized resonant structures.