Enhancement and Sensing Application of Ultra-Narrowband Circular Dichroism in the Chiral Nanostructures Based on Monolayer MoS₂ and a Distributed Bragg Reflector

Abstract

Narrowband circular dichroism (CD) has aroused wide concerns in high-sensitivity detections of chiral molecular and chiral catalysis. Nevertheless, the dynamical adjustment of ultranarrowband (UNB) CD signals is hard to achieve. In this work, single-layer molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2 ), vanadium dioxide (VO 2 ), and a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) are introduced into X-shaped chiral nanostructures (XCNs) for overcoming the above challenge. The simulation results show that XCNs can generate four strong UNB CD signals in the near-infrared band, and XCNs/MoS 2 can further enhance the UNB CD signals. The full width at half-minimum of UNB CD signals can reach 0.14 nm. The electric field distributions of XCNs/MoS 2 show that the four CD signals originate from the coupling between the guided mode resonances along the x and y axes in the VO 2 layer and the Tamm plasmon polaritons along the x and y axes in the DBR layer. Four UNB CD peaks can be actively tuned by varying the structural parameters, the number of MoS 2 layers, and the environmental temperature. The FOM of XCNs/MoS 2 can reach 1487 by changing the refractive index of the DRB layers. These findings contribute to the design of UNB chiral devices and provide new possibilities for environmental monitoring and ultrasensitive detection of chiral molecules.

Active Control and Sensing Application of Ultra-Narrowband Circular Dichroism in Multilayer Chiral Nanorod Arrays

“…27 We propose a chiral nanostructure based on the Tamm plasmon resonance that can generate four ultra-narrowband circular dichroism (CD) signals in the near-infrared spectral range, with the narrowest FWHM CD signal of 0.14 nm. 28 However, the detected molecules are complicated to couple with the Tamm plasmon in the DBR layer, severely limiting its molecular detection sensitivity. Furthermore, the dynamic tunability of chiral nanostructures can greatly promote their applications in switchable polarization conversion, real-time biological sensing, dynamic imaging, and other fields.…”

“…Recently, a hybrid system composed of a metal film and a defect layer Bragg grating has been proposed to generate Tamm plasmon resonances with a line width of 2 nm and a quality factor ( Q ) of 778 . We propose a chiral nanostructure based on the Tamm plasmon resonance that can generate four ultra-narrowband circular dichroism (CD) signals in the near-infrared spectral range, with the narrowest FWHM CD signal of 0.14 nm . However, the detected molecules are complicated to couple with the Tamm plasmon in the DBR layer, severely limiting its molecular detection sensitivity.…”