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The detection of single particles or molecules represents a critical milestone in the development of biosensing technologies. Recently developed optical sensors based on quasi-bound states in the continuum (qBICs) have primarily focused on…
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Bound states in the continuum (BICs) garnered significant for their potential to create new types of nanophotonic devices. Most prior demonstrations were based on arrays of dielectric resonators, which cannot be miniaturized beyond the…
Surface-polaritons play a pivotal role in strong light-matter interactions at the nanoscale due to their ability to confine light to deep subwavelength dimensions. A promising class of materials exhibiting such polaritonic response are…
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) provide exceptional light confinement due to their inherent decoupling from radiative channels. Small symmetry breaking transforms BIC into quasi-BIC (qBIC) that couples to free-space radiation enabling…
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Chiral quasi-bound states in the continuum (q-BICs) have recently emerged in metaphotonics as resonances that combine ultrahigh quality factors with near-unity circular polarization. However, these states are typically confined to the…
We present nonlinear optical four-wave mixing in a silicon nanodisk dimer metasurface. Under the oblique incident plane waves, the designed metasurface exhibits a multi-resonant feature with simultaneous excitations of three quasi-bound…
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