High-Q plasmonic infrared absorber for sensing of molecular resonances in hybrid lead halide perovskites

Abstract

Plasmonic resonances in sub-wavelength metal-dielectric-metal cavities have been shown to exhibit strong optical field enhancement. The large field enhancements that occur in sub-wavelength regions of the cavity can drastically boost the performance of microcavity based detectors, electromagnetic wave absorbers, metasurface hologram, and nonlinear response of the material in a cavity. The performance efficiencies of these plasmonic devices can be further improved by designing tunable narrow-band high-Q cavities. Here, we experimentally and numerically demonstrate high-Q resonances in metal-dielectric-metal cavity consisting of an array of conductively coupled annular and rectangular apertures separated from the bottom continuous metal film by a thin dielectric spacer. Both, the in-plane and out of plane coupling between the resonators and the continuous metal film have been shown to support fundamental and higher order plasmonic resonances which result in high-Q response at mid-infrared frequencies. As a sensor application of the high-Q cavity, we sense the vibrational resonances of an ultrathin layer of solution-processed organic–inorganic hybrid lead halide perovskites.