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Chiral plasmonic metasurface assembled by DNA origami.

Niels GieselerSvenja MoenchDominik BeutelWolfgang G PfeiferCarmen M DomínguezChristof M NiemeyerCarsten Rockstuhl
Published in: Optics express (2024)
Chiral materials are essential to perceive photonic devices that control the helicity of light. However, the chirality of natural materials is rather weak, and relatively thick films are needed for noticeable effects. To overcome this limitation, artificial photonic materials were suggested to affect the chiral response in a much more substantial manner. Ideally, a single layer of such a material, a metasurface, should already be sufficient. While various structures fabricated with top-down nanofabrication technologies have already been reported, here we propose to utilize scaffolded DNA origami technology, a scalable bottom-up approach for metamolecule production, to fabricate a chiral metasurface. We introduce a chiral plasmonic metamolecule in the shape of a tripod and simulate its optical properties. By fixing the metamolecule to a rectangular planar origami, the tripods can be assembled into a 2D DNA origami crystal that forms a chiral metasurface. We simulate the optical properties but also fabricate selected devices to assess the experimental feasibility of the suggested approach critically.
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