Optically sizing single atmospheric particulates with a 10-nm resolution using a strong evanescent field

Xiao-Chong Yu; Yanyan Zhi; Shui-Jing Tang; Bei-Bei Li; Qihuang Gong; Cheng-Wei Qiu; Yun-Feng Xiao

doi:10.1038/lsa.2018.3

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Optically sizing single atmospheric particulates with a 10-nm resolution using a strong evanescent field

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- Optically sizing single atmospheric particulates with a 10-nm resolution using a strong evanescent field
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 7, Issue 3, (2018)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  2.Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, China
  3.Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
  4.Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117583, Singapore
  5.NUS Suzhou Research Institute (NUSRI), Suzhou 215123, China
  6.SZU-NUS Collaborative Innovation Center for Optoelectronic Science & Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
- Author bio：
  
  YF Xiao, Email: yfxiao@pku.edu.cn
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2018.3
  CLC：
- Published：2018，
  
  Published Online：20 April 2018，
  
  Received：06 July 2017，
  
  Revised：29 December 2017，
  
  Accepted：02 January 2018
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Yu, X. C. et al. Optically sizing single atmospheric particulates with a 10-nm resolution using a strong evanescent field. Light: Science & Applications, 3, 18003 (2018).
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Yu, X. C. et al. Optically sizing single atmospheric particulates with a 10-nm resolution using a strong evanescent field. Light: Science & Applications, 3, 18003 (2018). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2018.3.

摘要

Abstract

Although an accurate evaluation of the distribution of ultrafine particulate matte

r in air is of utmost significance to public health

the usually used PM

2.5

index fails to provide size distribution information. Here we demonstrate a low-profile and cavity-free size spectrometer for probing fine and ultrafine particulate matter by using the enhanced particle-perturbed scattering in strong optical evanescent fields of a nanofiber array. The unprecedented size resolution reaches 10 nm for detecting single 100-nm-diameter nanoparticles by employing uniform nanofibers and controlling the polarizations of the probe light. This size spectrometry was tested and used to retrieve the size distribution of particulate matter in the air of Beijing

yielding mass concentrations of nanoparticles

as a secondary exercise

consistent with the officially released data. This nanofiber-array probe shows potential for the full monitoring of air pollution and for studying early-stage haze evolution and can be further extended to explore nanoparticle interactions.

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Keywords

air pollutionoptical nanofibersingle particulatessize spectrometer

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