Scalable and Tunable Periodic Graphene Nanohole Arrays for Mid-Infrared Plasmonics

• Published in: Nano letters 2018-09, Vol.18 (9), p.5913-5918
• Main Authors: Gopalan, Kavitha K, Paulillo, Bruno, Mackenzie, David M.A, Rodrigo, Daniel, Bareza, Nestor, Whelan, Patrick R, Shivayogimath, Abhay, Pruneri, Valerio
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 1530-6984; 1530-6992
• DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b02613

Despite its great potential for a wide variety of devices, especially mid-infrared biosensors and photodetectors, graphene plasmonics is still confined to academic research. A major reason is the fact that, so far, expensive and low-throughput lithography techniques are needed to fabricate graphene nanostructures. Here, we report for the first time a detailed experimental study on electrostatically tunable graphene nanohole array surfaces with periods down to 100 nm, showing clear plasmonic response in the range ∼1300–1600 cm–1, which can be fabricated by a scalable nanoimprint technique. Such large area plasmonic nanostructures are suitable for industrial applications, for example, surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) sensing, as they combine easy design, extreme field confinement, and the possibility to excite multiple plasmon modes enabling multiband sensing, a feature not readily available in nanoribbons or other localized resonant structures.