• 文献标题:   Graphene-Enhanced Brillouin Optomechanical Microresonator for Ultrasensitive Gas Detection
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YAO BC, YU CB, WU Y, HUANG SW, WU H, GONG Y, CHEN YF, LI YR, WONG CW, FAN XD, RAO YJ
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, brillouin optomechnic, whispering gallery mode microresonator, fiber interrogated optic, ultrasensitive gas detection
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Elect Sci Technol China
  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02176
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Chemical sensing is one of the most important applications of nanoscience, whose ultimate aim is to seek higher sensitivity. In recent years, graphene with intriguing quantum properties has spurred dramatic advances ranging from materials science to optoelectronics and mechanics, showing its potential to realize individual molecule solid-state sensors. However, for optical sensing the single atom thickness of graphene greatly limits the light-graphene interactions, bottlenecking their performances. Here we demonstrate a novel approach based on the forward phase matched Brillouin optomechanics in a graphene inner-deposited high Q (>2 x 10(6)) microfluidic resonator, expanding the "electron-photon" interaction in conventional graphene optical devices to the "electron-phonon-photon" process. The molecular adsorption induced surface elastic modulation in graphene enables the Brillouin optomechanical modes (mechanical Q approximate to 43,670) extremely sensitive (200 kHz/ppm) in ammonia gas detection, achieving a noise equivalent detection limit down to 1 ppb and an unprecedented dynamic range over five orders-of-magnitude with fast response. This work provides a new platform for the researches of graphene-based optomechanics, nanophotonics, and optical sensing.