Near infrared biosensor based on Classical Electromagnetically Induced Reflectance (Cl-EIR) in a planar complementary metamaterial

In the field of plasmonic metamaterials (MMs), the sub-wavelength metallic structures play a role similar to atoms in nature. Classical electromagnetically induced reflectance (Cl-EIR) is a classical phenomenon which is analogue to the EIR quantum phenomenon in atomic systems. A sensitive control of the Cl-EIR is crucial to a range of potential applications such as slowing light and biosensor. Here we report on our three-dimensional nanophotonic complementary planar metamaterial consisting of an array of three slot strips plasmonic that exhibits Cl-EIR phenomenon with magnetic and electric dipolar and quadruplar interaction between the plasmonic molecules. Simply by introducing symmetry broken of the proposed MM, the Cl-EIR can be dynamically tuned. We further demonstrate using a numerical simulation that the coupling between the plasmonic modes in one asymmetric case with changing the dielectric surrounding of the nano-structure to prove our design has a great potential for near-infrared localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) sensing applications. The changing of the used metal in thin-film was also proposed to explain the coupling effects between the bright and dark modes of the Cl-EIR electromagnetic spectra on sensitivity of our proposed nano-structure in plasmonic sensing. This work paves a promising approach to achieve plasmonic sensing devices. Actually, the reflection of more than 97% is observed which is very high for the EIR effect. Furthermore, the figure of merit (FOM) of 17.3 and the group index of 413 are obtained. These mentioned characteristics make the proposed metamaterial with potential to apply for ultrafast switches, bio-sensors, and slow-light devices.