Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 6, Issue 9, Pages 6322-6331Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am405443y
Keywords
nanopore; colloidal lithography; surface plasmon resonance; transmission electron microscopy
Funding
- Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- ETH Zurich
- Mizuho Foundation for the Promotion of Science
- Iketani Science and Technology Foundation
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Suspended plasmonic nanopores in ultrathin film layers were fabricated through a simple and widely applicable method combining colloidal lithography and thin film transfer, which allows mass production of short-range ordered nanopore arrays on a large scale. By this combined method, mechanically stable and flexible free-standing nanopore membranes with a thickness down to 15-30 nm were produced. The plasmon resonances of the ultrathin plasmonic nanopores fabricated in AlN/Au/AlN trilayer and single layer Au membranes were tuned to lie in the vis-NIR wavelength range by properly designing their dimensions. The optical responses to the refractive index changes were tested and applied to adlayer sensing. The trilayer nanopore membrane showed a unique property to support water only on one side of the membrane, which was confirmed by the resonance shift and comparison with numerical simulation. Pore size reduction down to 10 nm can be achieved through additional material deposition. The filtering function of such pore-size-reduced conical shaped nanofunnels has also been demonstrated. The presented nanopore fabrication method offers new platforms for ultrathin nanopore sensing or filtering devices with controlled pore-size and optical properties. The film transfer technique employed in this work would enable the transformation of any substrate-based nanostructures to free-standing membrane based devices without complicated multiple etching processes.
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