Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 5376-5384Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b00318
Keywords
thermoplasmonics; nano-optical tweezers; metasurface; nanohole array; particle trapping; self-assembly
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- NSF MRSEC [DMR-1120923]
- AFOSR [29017320-51649-D]
- Purdue Water Institute
- Vanderbilt University
- DARPA/DSO Extreme Optics and Imaging (EXTREME) Program [HR00111720032]
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The intrinsic loss in a plasmonic metasurface is usually considered to be detrimental for device applications. Using plasmonic loss to our advantage, we introduce a thermoplasmonic metasurface that enables high-throughput large-ensemble nanoparticle assembly in a lab-on-a-chip platform. In our work, an array of subwavelength nanoholes in a metal film is used as a plasmonic metasurface that supports the excitation of localized surface plasmon and Bloch surface plasmon polariton waves upon optical illumination and provides a platform for molding both optical and thermal landscapes to achieve a tunable many-particle assembling process. The demonstrated many-particle trapping occurs against gravity in an inverted configuration where the light beam first passes through the nanoparticle suspension before illuminating the thermoplasmonic metasurface, a feat previously thought to be impossible. We also report an extraordinarily enhanced electrothermoplasmonic flow in the region of the thermoplasmonic nanohole metasurface, with comparatively larger transport velocities in comparison to the unpatterned region. This thermoplasmonic metasurface could enable possibilities for myriad applications in molecular analysis, quantum photonics, and self-assembly and creates a versatile platform for exploring nonequilibrium physics.
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