Extraordinary transmission of electromagnetic waves through sub-wavelength slot arrays mediated by spoof surface plasmon polaritons

2016 ◽  
Vol 108 (19) ◽  
pp. 194101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongqiang Pang ◽  
Jiafu Wang ◽  
Hua Ma ◽  
Mingde Feng ◽  
Song Xia ◽  
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Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1550
Author(s):  
Junkai Bai ◽  
Hongfu Guo ◽  
Hua Li ◽  
Chen Zhou ◽  
Hanchao Tang

Point-of-care testing plays an important role in the detection of skin abnormalities. The detection of skin abnormalities requires sufficient depth and no harm. A flexible microwave biosensor based on spoof surface plasmon polaritons was designed to meet the requirements of skin abnormalities. The designed biosensor, which works at 13.3 GHz, is small and can be flexibly attached to the skin surface of any part of the human body for measurement. The health status of the skin can be evaluated by the resonant frequency and the magnitude of the reflection coefficient of the sensor. The sensor was tested on pork skin. The experiment results showed that the sensor can detect skin abnormalities such as skin burn, skin tumor, and others. Compared with other sensors, the sensor has sufficient penetration depth because of the strong penetration of microwave electromagnetic waves. It is the first flexible microwave biosensor used for skin, which involves point-of-care testing, and continuous monitoring of skin.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 3288
Author(s):  
Dujuan Wei ◽  
Youlin Geng ◽  
Pengquan Zhang ◽  
Zhonghai Zhang ◽  
Chuan Yin

In this paper, a titled-beam antenna based on spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs) transmission lines (TLs) is proposed. The parallel SSPPs-TL is a slow-wave TL, which is able to limit waves in the TL strictly. By periodically introducing a set of tapered stubs along the SSPPs-TL, the backward endfire beams are formed by the surface waves in the slow-wave radiation region. Then, through the placement of a big metal plate below the endfire antenna, the backward endfire beams are tilted, and the tilted angle of the beams are steered by the distance of the metal plate and antenna. Over the band of 5.7 GHz~7.0 GHz, the tilted antenna performs constant shapes of radiation patterns. The gain keeps stable at around 12 dBi and the 1-dB gain bandwidth is 20%. The measured results of the fabricated prototypes confirm the design theory and simulated results.


Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 3279-3285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiwei Yan ◽  
Chong Sheng ◽  
Shining Zhu ◽  
Hui Liu

AbstractHow to capture electromagnetic fields into sub-wavelength spatial scales has been a major challenge in nanophotonics, especially confining surface plasmon polaritons into regions as small as a few nanometers. Although various methods are proposed to achieve this goal, these methods require complex fabrication process. Here, we demonstrate experimentally the achievement of nanofocusing of surface plasmon polaritons with an intensity enhancement of three, using the simple structure with just pasting a sliver microwire on a sliver layer. And the designed structure has a well-defined gravitational field inspired by transformation optics. This simple design structure has applications to enhance light–matter interactions, such as nonlinear optical process and Raman scattering.


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