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Fig. Freestanding GO polarizer
(Source from: Zheng, X., B. Xu, S. Li, H. Lin, L. Qiu, D. Li, and B. Jia, Free-standing graphene oxide mid-infrared polarizers. Nanoscale, 2020.
Mid-infrared (MIR) radiation, especially in the wavelength range from 3 μm to 30 μm, plays an indispensable role in a wide range of applications including infrared (IR) imaging and sensing, aerospace engineering, medicine, military defense, and information and communication. However, MIR-compatible (especially > 8 μm) materials are mainly limited to fragile, hazardous and expensive germanium selenide and fluoride-based materials such as Ge, ZnSe and BaF2, which remain challenging. It is critical to find suitable MIR materials with broadband MIR transparency, high refractive index, mechanical and chemical stability, cost effectiveness, and fast fabrication capabilities.
In the scheme, we prepared high-performance MIR polarizers with large extinction ratios (~20 dB) and controlled operating wavelengths in the MIR region by using laser nano-3D printing on a freestanding GO film.
Fig. 1. Free-standing graphene oxide MIR polarizers (a) Conceptual design and laser manufacturing of the free-standing GO polarizer. (b) Top: The 3D topographic view of the GO polarizer measured with an optical profiler. Bottom: The cross-sectional surface profile of the GO polarizer along the white dashed line marked in the top 3D topographic view. (c) The SEM image of the fabricated GO polarizer. Scale bar: 10 μm. (d) The photo of a free-standing GO polarizer mounted on a commercially available standard polarizer mount.
Source from: Zheng, X., B. Xu, S. Li, H. Lin, L. Qiu, D. Li, and B. Jia, Free-standing graphene oxide mid-infrared polarizers. Nanoscale, 2020.
Fig. 2. The operations of graphene oxide MIR polarizers (a) Schematic figure of the working principle of the GO polarizer. Insets: The cross-sectional (x-z plane) electric field distributions within one exemplary GO rod (white dashed line) have been plotted for both guided-mode (left) and waveguide mode (right), respectively. (b) The FDTD simulation of the transmission spectra of the proposed GO polarizer under both TM and TE polarizations. (c) The experimental transmission spectra of the proposed GO polarizer measured by using the microscope FTIR spectrometer.
Source from: Zheng, X., B. Xu, S. Li, H. Lin, L. Qiu, D. Li, and B. Jia, Free-standing graphene oxide mid-infrared polarizers. Nanoscale, 2020.
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Can be used for infrared night vision, thermal imaging, multispectral imaging and infrared imaging.
Two-dimensional (2D) materials usually refer to materials containing single or multiple layers of atoms, ranging in thickness from single atomic layers to tens of nanometers. A variety of 2D materials such as graphene, boron nitride, transition metal sulfides, black phosphorus and chalcogenides have been successfully separated. Two-dimensional materials exhibit exceptional physicochemical properties, such as atomic layer thickness, strong nonlinear optical properties, magnetic properties, and excellent mechanical properties. These properties, which are very different from their block counterparts, create new opportunities for the application of 2D materials in nanodevices, especially in photonics.
Recently various 2D material micro/nanostructures and functional devices have been proposed and designed by various fabrication methods to achieve their excellent performance. Ultrafast laser direct writing technology has been widely used in material patterning, modification, and functionalization due to its rich mechanism and dynamics of light-matter interaction, special three-dimensional fabrication capability, flexibility of arbitrary structure design, and minimal thermal effects, which enable processing accuracy up to tens of nanometers and fully demonstrate its outstanding fabrication capability. Its ultra-high resolution and fabrication accuracy, simple and flexible fabrication methods and excellent cost performance are indispensable for the preparation of next-generation large-area, high-performance, portable, integrated and flexible devices.
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In today’s society where everything is smart, sensors are playing an increasingly important role in our daily lives and in the Internet of Things. Sensors monitor our health (e.g. heartbeat), air quality, home security, and are widely used in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to monitor production processes. Our lives are surrounded by smartphones, wearables, and other smart devices, all of which are inseparable from sensors.
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