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

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 subwavelength 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. Published by AIP Publishing.