Strong Circular Dichroism in Single Gyroid Optical Metamaterials
arXiv:2004.03184 · doi:10.1002/adom.201902131
Abstract
Over the past two decades, metamaterials have led to an increasing number of biosensing and nanophotonic applications due to the possibility of a careful control of light propagating through subwavelength features. Chiral nanostructures (characterized by the absence of any mirror symmetry), in particular, give rise to unique chiro-optical properties such as circular dichroism and optical activity. Here, we present a gyroid optical metamaterial with a periodicity of 65 nm exhibiting a strong circular dichroism at visible wavelengths. Our bottom-up approach, based on metallic replication of the gyroid morphology in triblock terpolymer films, generates a large area of periodic optical metamaterials. We observe a strong circular dichroism in gold and silver gyroid metamaterials at visible wavelengths. We show that the circular dichroism is inherently linked to the handedness of the gyroid nanostructure, and demonstrate its tuneability. The optical effects are discussed and compared to other existing systems, showing the potential of bottom-up approaches for large-scale circular filters and chiral sensing.
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