Metaphotonics and metasurfaces for disruptive sensing technologies

该项目旨在通过开发革命性的方法来解决纳米光子学中的一个巨大挑战，该方法用于有效的分子手性传感，而不需要光谱分析，频率扫描或移动机械部件，并在元表面结构的帮助下将手性信号增强一百倍。共振超颖表面是具有非凡特性的工程介电纳米颗粒阵列，它们将允许克服当前手性传感分析工具的限制。检测低浓度的手性分子对于生物学、化学和药学的许多领域以及食品和化妆品工业至关重要，构成了数百亿美元的市场。

This project aims to address a big challenge in nanophotonics by developing revolutionary methods for efficient chiral sensing of molecules without the need for spectrometry, frequency scanning, or moving mechanical parts, and to enhance chiroptical signals a hundredfold with the help of metasurface structures. Resonant metasurfaces are arrays of engineered dielectric nanoparticles with extraordinary characteristics, and they would allow to overcome current limitations of chiral sensing analytical tools. Detecting chiral molecules in low concentrations is crucially important to many fields of biology, chemistry, and pharmacy, as well as to the food and cosmetics industries, constituting a market of tens of billions of dollars.