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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32697-z
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [EXC 2089/1-390776260, TI 1063/1]
- Bavarian program Solar Energies Go Hybrid (SolTech)
- Center for NanoScience (CeNS)
- Australian Research Council [DP210101292]
- Army Research Office [FA520921P0034]
- National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) [PDJ 2019-150393/2020-2]
- EPSRC [EP/W017075/1]
- Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- DECRA Project from the Australian Research Council [DE220101085]
- International Technology Center Indo-Pacific (ITC IPAC)
- Australian Research Council [DE220101085] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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The authors have developed a nanophotonic platform for enhanced on-chip biomolecular sensing and nonlinear light generation. This platform features high-Q resonances and a small spatial footprint. They have successfully demonstrated its applications in sensitive biomolecular detection and enhanced second-harmonic generation.
In their work on radial BICs, the authors realize a nanophotonic platform with high resonance Q factors and drastically reduced spatial footprint ideally suited for enhanced on-chip biomolecular sensing and nonlinear light generation. All-dielectric nanophotonics underpinned by the physics of bound states in the continuum (BICs) have demonstrated breakthrough applications in nanoscale light manipulation, frequency conversion and optical sensing. Leading BIC implementations range from isolated nanoantennas with localized electromagnetic fields to symmetry-protected metasurfaces with controllable resonance quality (Q) factors. However, they either require structured light illumination with complex beam-shaping optics or large, fabrication-intense arrays of polarization-sensitive unit cells, hindering tailored nanophotonic applications and on-chip integration. Here, we introduce radial quasi-bound states in the continuum (radial BICs) as a new class of radially distributed electromagnetic modes controlled by structural asymmetry in a ring of dielectric rod pair resonators. The radial BIC platform provides polarization-invariant and tunable high-Q resonances with strongly enhanced near fields in an ultracompact footprint as low as 2 mu m(2). We demonstrate radial BIC realizations in the visible for sensitive biomolecular detection and enhanced second-harmonic generation from monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, opening new perspectives for compact, spectrally selective, and polarization-invariant metadevices for multi-functional light-matter coupling, multiplexed sensing, and high-density on-chip photonics.
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