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Area of Science:

  • Optoelectronics
  • Nanotechnology
  • Plasmonics

Background:

  • Controlled charge flow is crucial for energy, information transfer, and probing material properties.
  • Optical control of currents offers advantages over traditional voltage-driven systems but faces challenges at the nanoscale.
  • Scalable optoelectronic systems require precise optical manipulation of currents at nanometre scales.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce vectorial optoelectronic metasurfaces for optical control of nanoscale charge flows.
  • To demonstrate tunable and arbitrarily patterned local and global currents using light.
  • To explore the underlying physics of light-induced charge dynamics in materials like graphene.

Main Methods:

  • Fabrication of vectorial optoelectronic metasurfaces with symmetry-broken plasmonic nanostructures.
  • Excitation of nanostructures with ultrafast light pulses.
  • Characterization using polarization-dependent and wavelength-sensitive electrical readout and terahertz (THz) emission.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated optical induction of local directional charge flows at subdiffractive nanometre scales.
  • Achieved tunable responses and arbitrary patterning of nanoscale currents.
  • Generated broadband terahertz (THz) vector beams through tailored global currents.
  • Observed complex interplay of electrodynamic, thermodynamic, and hydrodynamic effects in graphene.

Conclusions:

  • Vectorial optoelectronic metasurfaces enable versatile optical patterning and control of nanoscale currents.
  • The findings pave the way for advancements in materials diagnostics, THz spectroscopies, nanomagnetism, and ultrafast information processing.
  • This work establishes a new paradigm for nanoscale optoelectronic devices.