Abstract
Applying direct growth and deposition of optical surfaces holds great promise for the advancement of future nanophotonic technologies. Here, we report on a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique for depositing amorphous selenium (a-Se) spheres by desorption of selenium from Bi2Se3 and re-adsorption on the substrate. We utilize this process to grow scalable, large area Se spheres on several substrates and characterize their Mie-resonant response in the mid-infrared (MIR) spectral range. We demonstrate size-tunable Mie resonances spanning the 2–16 μm spectral range for single isolated resonators and large area ensembles. We further demonstrate strong absorption dips of up to 90% in ensembles of particles in a broad MIR range. Finally, we show that ultra-high-Q resonances arise in the case where Se Mie-resonators are coupled to low-loss epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) substrates. These findings demonstrate the enabling potential of amorphous Selenium as a versatile and tunable nanophotonic material that may open up avenues for on-chip MIR spectroscopy, chemical sensing, spectral imaging, and large area metasurface fabrication.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 4612-4619 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 26 Jan 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2022 American Chemical Society
Funding
T.L. would like to thank the Israel Science Foundation for funding this work under grant no. 2110/19; D.N. would like to thank the European Research Council for the generous funding of this work under the H2020 FET OPEN grant no. 801389.
Funders | Funder number |
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Horizon 2020 Framework Programme | 801389 |
European Commission | |
Israel Science Foundation | 2110/19 |
Keywords
- CVD growth
- Mie-resonators
- epsilon-near-zero
- high-quality-factor resonances
- meta-optics
- nanoparticles
- selenium