Photonics Research, 2019, 7 (7): 07000815, Published Online: Jun. 24, 2019  

Enhancing sensitivity to ambient refractive index with tunable few-layer graphene/hBN nanoribbons Download: 649次

Author Affiliations
1 Institute of Modern Optics, Department of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
2 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
3 School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
4 Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
5 Key Laboratory of Micro-Optics and Photonic Technology of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin 150001, China
6 Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Information System of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin 150001, China
7 e-mail: jiangyy@hit.edu.cn
Abstract
Refractive index (RI) sensing helps to identify biomolecules and chemicals in the mid-infrared range for drug discovery, bioengineering, and environmental monitoring. In this paper, we numerically demonstrate an electrically tunable RI sensor with ultrahigh sensitivity using a three-layer graphene nanoribbon array separated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Unlike the weak resonance in single-layer graphene nanoribbons, a much stronger plasmon resonance featuring a higher-quality factor can be excited in the graphene/hBN few-layer ribbon array. Simultaneously, the high purity of graphene on hBN results in an outstanding charge mobility above 4×104 cm2·V 1·s 1 at 300 K, which allows a larger modulation depth. The interaction between the locally enhanced field around graphene ribbons and its surrounding analyte leads to ultrahigh sensitivity (4.207 μm/RIU), with the figure of merit reaching approximately 58. Moreover, this ultrasensitive detector could selectively work in different wavebands by controlling gate voltages applied to graphene. These merits of ultrahigh sensitivity and electrical tunability are major advances compared to previous RI sensors, paving a way toward ultrasensitive detection using graphene/hBN few-layer devices.

Huan Jiang, Sajid Choudhury, Zhaxylyk A. Kudyshev, Di Wang, Ludmila J. Prokopeva, Peng Xiao, Yongyuan Jiang, Alexander V. Kildishev. Enhancing sensitivity to ambient refractive index with tunable few-layer graphene/hBN nanoribbons[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(7): 07000815.

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