scholarly journals Observing and controlling a Tamm plasmon at the interface with a metasurface

Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 897-903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Buchnev ◽  
Alexandr Belosludtsev ◽  
Victor Reshetnyak ◽  
Dean R. Evans ◽  
Vassili A. Fedotov

AbstractWe demonstrate experimentally that Tamm plasmons in the near infrared can be supported by a dielectric mirror interfaced with a metasurface, a discontinuous thin metal film periodically patterned on the sub-wavelength scale. More crucially, not only do Tamm plasmons survive the nanopatterning of the metal film but they also become sensitive to external perturbations as a result. In particular, by depositing a nematic liquid crystal on the outer side of the metasurface, we were able to red shift the spectral position of Tamm plasmon by 35 nm, while electrical switching of the liquid crystal enabled us to tune the wavelength of this notoriously inert excitation within a 10-nm range.

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 067101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai-Chun Zhou ◽  
Guang Yang ◽  
Kai Wang ◽  
Hua Long ◽  
Pei-Xiang Lu

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Saad Bin-Alam ◽  
Orad Reshef ◽  
Yaryna Mamchur ◽  
M. Zahirul Alam ◽  
Graham Carlow ◽  
...  

AbstractPlasmonic nanostructures hold promise for the realization of ultra-thin sub-wavelength devices, reducing power operating thresholds and enabling nonlinear optical functionality in metasurfaces. However, this promise is substantially undercut by absorption introduced by resistive losses, causing the metasurface community to turn away from plasmonics in favour of alternative material platforms (e.g., dielectrics) that provide weaker field enhancement, but more tolerable losses. Here, we report a plasmonic metasurface with a quality-factor (Q-factor) of 2340 in the telecommunication C band by exploiting surface lattice resonances (SLRs), exceeding the record by an order of magnitude. Additionally, we show that SLRs retain many of the same benefits as localized plasmonic resonances, such as field enhancement and strong confinement of light along the metal surface. Our results demonstrate that SLRs provide an exciting and unexplored method to tailor incident light fields, and could pave the way to flexible wavelength-scale devices for any optical resonating application.


2012 ◽  
Vol 116 (22) ◽  
pp. 12149-12155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirly Borukhin ◽  
Cecile Saguy ◽  
Maria Koifman ◽  
Boaz Pokroy

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seok Chung ◽  
Jun Keun Chang ◽  
Dong Chul Han

Abstract To make some MF.MS devices such as sensors and actuators be useful in the medical application, it is required to integrate this devices with power or sensor lines and to keep the hole devices biocompatible. Integrating micro machined sensors and actuators with conventional copper lines is incompatible because the thin copper lines are not easy to handle in the mass production. To achieve the compatibility of wiring method between MEMS devices, we developed the thin metal film deposition process that coats micropattered thin copper films on the non silicon-wafer substrate. The process was developed with the custom-made three-dimensional thin film sputter/evaporation system. The system consists of process chamber, two branch chambers, substrate holder unit and linear/rotary motion feedthrough. Thin metal film was deposited on the biocompatible polymer, polyurethane (PellethaneR) and silicone, catheter that is 2 mm in diameter and 1,000 mm in length. We deposited Cr/Cu and Ti/Cu layer and made a comparative study of the deposition processes, sputtering and evaporation. The temperature of both the processes were maintained below 100°C, for the catheter not melting during the processes. To use the films as signal lines connect the signal source to the actuator on the catheter tip, we machined the films into desired patterns with the eximer laser. In this paper, we developed the thin metal film deposition system and processes for the biopolymeric substrate used in the medical MEMS devices.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1942
Author(s):  
Yue Chen ◽  
Robert Lipton

We construct metamaterials from sub-wavelength nonmagnetic resonators and consider the refraction of incoming signals traveling from free space into the metamaterial. We show that the direction of the transmitted signal is a function of its center frequency and bandwidth. The directionality of the transmitted signal and its frequency dependence is shown to be explicitly controlled by sub-wavelength resonances that can be calculated from the geometry of the sub-wavelength scatters. We outline how to construct a medium with both positive and negative index properties across different frequency bands in the near infrared and optical regime.


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