Attoliter Mie Void Sensing
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| author | Arslan, Serkan Kappel, Micha Valero, Adrià Canós Tran, Thu Huong T. Karst, Julian Christ, Philipp Hohenester, Ulrich Weiss, Thomas Giessen, Harald Hentschel, Mario |
| author_facet | Arslan, Serkan Kappel, Micha Valero, Adrià Canós Tran, Thu Huong T. Karst, Julian Christ, Philipp Hohenester, Ulrich Weiss, Thomas Giessen, Harald Hentschel, Mario |
| contents | Traditional nanophotonic sensing schemes utilize evanescent fields in dielectric or metallic nanoparticles, which confine far-field radiation in dispersive and lossy media. Apart from the lack of a well-defined sensing volume that can be accompanied by moderate sensitivities, these structures suffer from the generally limited access to the modal field, which is key for sensing performance. Recently, a novel strategy for dielectric nanophotonics has been demonstrated, namely, the resonant confinement of light in air. So-called Mie voids created in high-index dielectric host materials support localized resonant modes with exceptional properties. In particular, due to the confinement in air, these structures benefit from the full access to the modal field inside the void. We utilize these Mie voids for refractive index sensing in single voids with volumes down to 100 attoliters and sensitivities on the order of 400 nm per refractive index unit. Taking the signal-to-noise ratio of our measurements into account, we demonstrate detection of refractive index changes as small as 6.9 x 10-4 in a defined volume of just 850 attoliters. The combination of our Mie void sensor platform with appropriate surface functionalization will even enable specificity to biological or other analytes of interest, as the sensing volumes are on the order of cellular signaling chemicals of single vesicles in cellular synapses. |
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| spellingShingle | Attoliter Mie Void Sensing Arslan, Serkan Kappel, Micha Valero, Adrià Canós Tran, Thu Huong T. Karst, Julian Christ, Philipp Hohenester, Ulrich Weiss, Thomas Giessen, Harald Hentschel, Mario Optics Traditional nanophotonic sensing schemes utilize evanescent fields in dielectric or metallic nanoparticles, which confine far-field radiation in dispersive and lossy media. Apart from the lack of a well-defined sensing volume that can be accompanied by moderate sensitivities, these structures suffer from the generally limited access to the modal field, which is key for sensing performance. Recently, a novel strategy for dielectric nanophotonics has been demonstrated, namely, the resonant confinement of light in air. So-called Mie voids created in high-index dielectric host materials support localized resonant modes with exceptional properties. In particular, due to the confinement in air, these structures benefit from the full access to the modal field inside the void. We utilize these Mie voids for refractive index sensing in single voids with volumes down to 100 attoliters and sensitivities on the order of 400 nm per refractive index unit. Taking the signal-to-noise ratio of our measurements into account, we demonstrate detection of refractive index changes as small as 6.9 x 10-4 in a defined volume of just 850 attoliters. The combination of our Mie void sensor platform with appropriate surface functionalization will even enable specificity to biological or other analytes of interest, as the sensing volumes are on the order of cellular signaling chemicals of single vesicles in cellular synapses. |
| title | Attoliter Mie Void Sensing |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02331 |