Millivolt Modulation of Plasmonic Metasurface Optical Response via Ionic Conductance
Abstract
A plasmonic metasurface with an electrically tunable optical response that operates at strikingly low modulation voltages is experimentally demonstrated. The fabricated metasurface shows up to 30% relative change in reflectance in the visible spectral range upon application of 5 mV and 78% absolute change in reflectance upon application of 100 mV of bias. The designed metasurface consists of nanostructured silver and indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes which are separated by 5 nm thick alumina. The millivolt‐scale optical modulation is attributed to a new modulation mechanism, in which transport of silver ions through alumina dielectric leads to bias‐induced nucleation and growth of silver nanoparticles in the ITO counter‐electrode, altering the optical extinction response. This transport mechanism, which occurs at applied electric fields of 1 mV nm −1 , provides a new approach to use of ionic transport for electrical control over light–matter interactions.
- Authors:
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- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Thomas J. Watson Lab. of Applied Physics. Kavli Nanoscience Inst.
- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Thomas J. Watson Lab. of Applied Physics
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1533041
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1375059
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-07ER46405; FA9550-12-1-0024; DE‐FG02‐07ER46405
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 29; Journal Issue: 31; Journal ID: ISSN 0935-9648
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; filament formation; indium tin oxide (ITO); ionic transport; memristors; tunable metasurfaces
Citation Formats
Thyagarajan, Krishnan, Sokhoyan, Ruzan, Zornberg, Leonardo, and Atwater, Harry A. Millivolt Modulation of Plasmonic Metasurface Optical Response via Ionic Conductance. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1002/adma.201701044.
Thyagarajan, Krishnan, Sokhoyan, Ruzan, Zornberg, Leonardo, & Atwater, Harry A. Millivolt Modulation of Plasmonic Metasurface Optical Response via Ionic Conductance. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201701044
Thyagarajan, Krishnan, Sokhoyan, Ruzan, Zornberg, Leonardo, and Atwater, Harry A. Wed .
"Millivolt Modulation of Plasmonic Metasurface Optical Response via Ionic Conductance". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201701044. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1533041.
@article{osti_1533041,
title = {Millivolt Modulation of Plasmonic Metasurface Optical Response via Ionic Conductance},
author = {Thyagarajan, Krishnan and Sokhoyan, Ruzan and Zornberg, Leonardo and Atwater, Harry A.},
abstractNote = {A plasmonic metasurface with an electrically tunable optical response that operates at strikingly low modulation voltages is experimentally demonstrated. The fabricated metasurface shows up to 30% relative change in reflectance in the visible spectral range upon application of 5 mV and 78% absolute change in reflectance upon application of 100 mV of bias. The designed metasurface consists of nanostructured silver and indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes which are separated by 5 nm thick alumina. The millivolt‐scale optical modulation is attributed to a new modulation mechanism, in which transport of silver ions through alumina dielectric leads to bias‐induced nucleation and growth of silver nanoparticles in the ITO counter‐electrode, altering the optical extinction response. This transport mechanism, which occurs at applied electric fields of 1 mV nm −1 , provides a new approach to use of ionic transport for electrical control over light–matter interactions.},
doi = {10.1002/adma.201701044},
journal = {Advanced Materials},
number = 31,
volume = 29,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jun 14 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Jun 14 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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