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Journal Article
Permittivity-asymmetric qBIC metasurfaces for refractive index sensing
2025
Overview
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 ultra-high-quality-factor (Q-factor) resonances desirable for refractive index (RI) sensing. In practical implementations, geometric asymmetry is typically employed. However, since the radiative loss remains fixed once fabricated, such metasurfaces exhibit only a horizontal shift of the resonance spectrum in RI sensing, without modification of its overall shape. Here, we demonstrate a permittivity-asymmetric qBIC (ε-qBIC) metasurface, which encodes environmental refractive index variations directly into the asymmetry factor, resulting in an index response involving both resonance wavelength shift and modulation variation. In addition to exhibiting a competitive transmittance sensitivity of ∼5,300 %/RIU under single-wavelength conditions, the
-qBIC design provides a substantially improved linear response. Specifically, the linear window area of its sensing data distribution, calculated as the integrated wavelength region where the linearity parameter remains above the preset threshold, is 104 times larger than that of the geometry-asymmetric qBIC (g-qBIC), enabling more robust and reliable single-wavelength signal readout. Additionally, numerical results reveal that environmental permittivity asymmetry can optically restore the g-qBIC to a state with ultra-high-Q (over 10
), approaching the BIC condition. Unlike traditional BICs, which are typically inaccessible once perturbed, the permittivity-restored BIC becomes accessible through environmental perturbations. These findings suggest an alternative design strategy for developing high-performance photonic devices for practical sensing applications.
Publisher
De Gruyter,Walter de Gruyter GmbH
