Plasmon-driven nanowire actuators for on-chip manipulation

Autor: Qiwen Zhan, Jian Peng, Huakang Yu, Zhi-Yuan Li, Runlin Zhu, Wei Fang, Shuangyi Linghu, Jinsheng Lu, Songlin Zhuang, Fuxing Gu, Zhaoqi Gu, Min Gu, Zongyin Yang
Přispěvatelé: Linghu, Shuangyi [0000-0002-1426-3528], Gu, Zhaoqi [0000-0003-4225-7229], Lu, Jinsheng [0000-0002-4923-724X], Fang, Wei [0000-0002-6511-3570], Yang, Zongyin [0000-0003-2869-406X], Zhu, Runlin [0000-0003-2625-1441], Peng, Jian [0000-0002-1370-4184], Zhan, Qiwen [0000-0001-8745-4213], Gu, Min [0000-0003-4078-253X], Gu, Fuxing [0000-0002-3976-6535], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
147/135
Materials science
147/3
Science
Nanowire
ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION
General Physics and Astronomy
02 engineering and technology
Hardware_PERFORMANCEANDRELIABILITY
01 natural sciences
Article
General Biochemistry
Genetics and Molecular Biology
0103 physical sciences
Hardware_INTEGRATEDCIRCUITS
128
4018 Nanotechnology
140/125
010306 general physics
Plasmon
40 Engineering
Electronic circuit
ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS
Nanophotonics and plasmonics
Multidisciplinary
business.industry
Photonic integrated circuit
Surface plasmon
General Chemistry
Acoustic wave
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
639/925/927/1021
639/624/1107/1110
Optical manipulation and tweezers
Optoelectronics
Photonics
0210 nano-technology
business
Actuator
147/143
Hardware_LOGICDESIGN
Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2021)
Nature Communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Popis: Chemically synthesized metal nanowires are promising building blocks for next-generation photonic integrated circuits, but technological implementation in monolithic integration will be severely hampered by the lack of controllable and precise manipulation approaches, due to the strong adhesion of nanowires to substrates in non-liquid environments. Here, we demonstrate this obstacle can be removed by our proposed earthworm-like peristaltic crawling motion mechanism, based on the synergistic expansion, friction, and contraction in plasmon-driven metal nanowires in non-liquid environments. The evanescently excited surface plasmon greatly enhances the heating effect in metal nanowires, thereby generating surface acoustic waves to drive the nanowires crawling along silica microfibres. Advantages include sub-nanometer positioning accuracy, low actuation power, and self-parallel parking. We further demonstrate on-chip manipulations including transporting, positioning, orientation, and sorting, with on-situ operation, high selectivity, and great versatility. Our work paves the way to realize full co-integration of various functionalized photonic components on single chips.
Implementing metal nanowires in photonic circuits is challenging due to lack of suitable manipulation techniques. Here, the authors present an earthworm-like peristaltic crawling motion mechanism, based on surface plasmons and surface acoustic waves, and show on-chip manipulations of single nanowires.
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