Two-Color Spatially Resolved Tuning of Polymer-Coated Metasurfaces

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Walden, Sarah L
Poudel, Purushottam
Zou, Chengjun
Tanaka, Katsuya
Paul, Pallabi
Szeghalmi, Adriana
Siefke, Thomas
Pertsch, Thomas
Schacher, Felix H
Staude, Isabelle
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2024
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For the realization of truly reconfigurable metasurface technologies, dynamic spatial tuning of the metasurface resonance is required. Here we report the use of organic photoswitches as a means for the light-induced spatial tuning of metasurface resonances. Coating of a dielectric metasurface, hosting high-quality-factor resonances, with a spiropyran (SPA)-containing polymer enabled dynamic resonance tuning up to 4 times the resonance full-width at half-maximum with arbitrary spatial precision. A major benefit of employing photoswitches is the broad toolbox of chromophores available and the unique optical properties of each. In particular, SPA and azobenzene (AZO) photoswitches can both be switched with UV light but exhibit opposite refractive index changes. When applied to the metasurface, SPA induced a red shift in the metasurface resonance with a figure of merit of 97 RIU–1, while AZO caused a blue shift in the resonance with an even greater sensitivity of 100 RIU–1. Critically, SPA and AZO can be individually recovered with red and blue light, respectively. To exploit this advantage, we coated a dielectric metasurface with spatially offset SPA- and AZO-containing polymers to demonstrate wavelength-dependent, spatially resolved control over the metasurface resonance tuning.

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ACS Nano

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18

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6

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© 2024 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. This article is licensed under CC-BY 4.0.

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Walden, SL; Poudel, P; Zou, C; Tanaka, K; Paul, P; Szeghalmi, A; Siefke, T; Pertsch, T; Schacher, FH; Staude, I, Two-Color Spatially Resolved Tuning of Polymer-Coated Metasurfaces, ACS Nano, 2024, 18 (6), pp. 5079-5088

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