Experimental investigation of the thermal emission cross-section of nano-resonators using hierarchical Poisson-disk distributions

Effective cross-sections of nano-objects are fundamental properties that determine their ability to interact with light. However, measuring them for individual resonators directly and quantitatively remains challenging, particularly because of the very low signals involved. Here, we experimentally m...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2023-01
Main Authors: Langevin, Denis, Verlhac, Clément, Jaeck, Julien, Abou-Hamdan, Loubnan, Bardou, Nathalie, Dupuis, Christophe, De Wilde, Yannick, Haïdar, Riad, Bouchon, Patrick
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Absorption cross sections
Algorithms
Emission analysis
Extinction
Insulators
Measurement techniques
Resonators
Thermal emission
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Summary:Effective cross-sections of nano-objects are fundamental properties that determine their ability to interact with light. However, measuring them for individual resonators directly and quantitatively remains challenging, particularly because of the very low signals involved. Here, we experimentally measure the thermal emission cross-section of metal-insulator-metal nano-resonators using a stealthy hyperuniform distribution based on a hierarchical Poisson-disk algorithm. In such distributions, there are no long-range interactions between antennas, and we show that the light emitted by the metasurface behaves as the sum of cross-sections of independent nanoantennas, enabling direct retrieval of the single resonator contribution. The emission cross-section at resonance is found to be of the order of \(\mathbf{\lambda_0^2/3}\), a value that is nearly three times larger than the theroretical maximal absorption cross-section of a single particle but remains smaller than the maximal extinction cross-section. This measurement technique can be generalized to any single resonator cross-section, and we also apply it here to the extinction cross-section.
ISSN:2331-8422