journal article·2019-05Open access

Investigating the Optical Properties of a Laser Induced 3D Self‐Assembled Carbon–Metal Hybrid Structure

Muhammad Abdullah Butt, Antonino Calà Lesina, Martin Neugebauer, Thomas Bauer, Lora Ramunno, Alessandro Vaccari, Pierre Berini, Yuriy Petrov, Denis Danilov, Alina Manshina, Peter Banzer, Gerd Leuchs

Small· Volume 15· Issue 18

Abstract

Abstract Carbon‐based and carbon–metal hybrid materials hold great potential for applications in optics and electronics. Here, a novel material made of carbon and gold–silver nanoparticles is discussed, fabricated using a laser‐induced self‐assembly process. This self‐assembled metamaterial manifests itself in the form of cuboids with lateral dimensions on the order of several micrometers and a height of tens to hundreds of nanometers. The carbon atoms are arranged following an orthorhombic unit cell, with alloy nanoparticles intercalated in the crystalline carbon matrix. The optical properties of this metamaterial are analyzed experimentally using a microscopic Müller matrix measurement approach and reveal a high linear birefringence across the visible spectral range. Theoretical modeling based on local‐field theory applied to the carbon matrix links the birefringence to the orthorhombic unit cell, while finite‐difference time‐domain simulations of the metamaterial relates the observed optical response to the distribution of the alloy nanoparticles and the optical density of the carbon matrix.
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OpenAlex topics: Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies · Photonic Crystals and Applications · Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence

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Affiliations

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light 91058 Erlangen Germany

Institute of Optics Information and Photonics University Erlangen‐Nuremberg 91058 Erlangen Germany

School of Advanced Optical Technologies University Erlangen‐Nuremberg 91052 Erlangen Germany

Department of Physics University of Ottawa Ottawa ON K1N 6N5 Canada

Centre for Research in Photonics University of Ottawa Ottawa ON K1N 6N5 Canada

Max Planck–University of Ottawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics Ottawa K1N 6N5 Canada

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Ottawa Ottawa ON K1N 6N5 Canada

Department of Quantum Nanoscience Delft University of Technology 2628 CJ Delft Netherlands

Centre for Materials and Microsystems Fondazione Bruno Kessler 38123 Trento Italy

Faculty of physics St. Petersburg State University St. Petersburg 198504 Russia

Interdisciplinary Resource center for Nanotechnology St. Petersburg State University St. Petersburg 198504 Russia

Institute of Chemistry St. Petersburg State University St. Petersburg 198504 Russia

Funding

Russian Foundation for Basic Research · Saint Petersburg State University · Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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