An Adaptive Soft Plasmonic Nanosheet Resonator
2019
Current micro nanomechanical system are usually based on rigid crystalline semiconductors that normally have high quality factors but lack adaptive responses to variable frequencies, a capability ubiquitous for communications in the biological world, such as bat and whale calls. Here, we demonstrate a soft mechanical resonator based on a freestanding organic-inorganic hybrid plasmonic superlattice nanosheet, which can respond adaptively to either incident light intensity or wavelength. This is achieved because of strong plasmonic coupling in closely-packed nanocrystals which can efficiently concentrate and convert photons into heat. The heat causes the polymer matrix to expand, leading to a change in the nanomechanical properties of the plasmonic nanosheet. Notably, the adaptive frequency responses are also reversible and the responsive ranges are fine-tunable by adjusting the constituent nanocrystal building blocks. We believe that our plasmonic nanosheets may open a new route to design next-generation intelligent bio-mimicking opto-mechanical resonance systems.
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