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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 266, 2022
EOS Annual Meeting (EOSAM 2022)
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Article Number | 09003 | |
Number of page(s) | 2 | |
Section | Topical Meeting (TOM) 9- Opto-electronic Nanotechnologies and Complex Systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202226609003 | |
Published online | 13 October 2022 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202226609003
Plasmonic and 2D-TMD nanoarrays for large-scale photon harvesting and enhanced molecular photo-bleaching
1 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, I-16146 Genova, Italy
2 Institute of Materials Science, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam
* Corresponding author: buatier@fisica.unige.it t
Published online: 13 October 2022
The urgent environmental and energy challenges require novel solutions for efficient light harvesting and conversion in new-generation ultra-thin devices. Plasmonic nanoantennas and flat optics nanogratings can promote light matter interaction at the nanoscale being very attractive for ultra-thin photonics and sensing applications. In this work we developed two light trapping solutions based on large-scale nanomaterials. The first system is a large-scale (cm2) plasmonic metasurface based on self-organized gold nanostripes. The second is based on the periodic re-shaping of ultra-thin semiconducting MoS2 layers forming large-area flat-optics nanogratings. Under this condition Rayleigh Anomalies can be resonantly excited thus promoting in-plane light confinement and photon absorption into the few-layers material. To demonstrate the impact of these nanopatterned systems in photon harvesting we probed their efficiency into a prototypal photochemical reaction: the photo-bleaching of Methylene Blue (MB). We demonstrate the resonant enhancement of the photo-bleaching of these polluting dye molecules promoted either by the localized plasmon resonance in Au nanostripes or by the Rayleigh Anomaly in flat-optics MoS2 nanogratings. We investigate this effect through a quantitative analysis of the solution photodissociation induced by a monochromatic light. These results show the strong potential of flat-optics templates for light-harvesting and energy conversion in ultra-thin photonic devices.
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