Experimental Evidence of the Lorentz-like Effective Medium Resonance in Semiconductor Hyperbolic Metamaterials using Strong Coupling to Plasmonic Metasurfaces

Campione, Salvatore; Klem, John F.; Liu, Sheng; Montano, Ines; Sinclair, Michael B.; Luk, Ting S.

doi:10.1109/TAP.2019.2930154

Title: Experimental Evidence of the Lorentz-like Effective Medium Resonance in Semiconductor Hyperbolic Metamaterials using Strong Coupling to Plasmonic Metasurfaces

Abstract

The Lorentz-like effective medium resonance (LEMR) exhibited by the longitudinal effective permittivity of semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterials (SHMs) has been known for some time. However, direct observation of this resonance proved to be difficult. Here we experimentally demonstrate its existence by strongly coupling SHMs to plasmonic metasurfaces. We consider four strong coupling implementations of SHMs that exhibit different LEMR absorption profiles (both in frequency and strength) to validate our approach.

Authors:

Campione, Salvatore ^[1]; Klem, John F. ^[1]; Liu, Sheng ^[1]; Montano, Ines ^[2]; Sinclair, Michael B. ^[1]; Luk, Ting S. ^[1]

Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ (United States)

Publication Date:: Fri Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 2019

Research Org.:: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

OSTI Identifier:: 1559488

Report Number(s):: SAND-2019-7174J
Journal ID: ISSN 0018-926X; 676760; TRN: US2000347

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 68; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0018-926X

Publisher:: IEEE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 42 ENGINEERING; hyperbolic metamaterials; plasmonic metasurfaces; strong coupling; effective medium resonance

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                    Campione, Salvatore, Klem, John F., Liu, Sheng, Montano, Ines, Sinclair, Michael B., and Luk, Ting S. Experimental Evidence of the Lorentz-like Effective Medium Resonance in Semiconductor Hyperbolic Metamaterials using Strong Coupling to Plasmonic Metasurfaces.  United States: N. p., 2019. 
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                    Campione, Salvatore, Klem, John F., Liu, Sheng, Montano, Ines, Sinclair, Michael B., & Luk, Ting S. Experimental Evidence of the Lorentz-like Effective Medium Resonance in Semiconductor Hyperbolic Metamaterials using Strong Coupling to Plasmonic Metasurfaces.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2019.2930154

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                    Campione, Salvatore, Klem, John F., Liu, Sheng, Montano, Ines, Sinclair, Michael B., and Luk, Ting S. Fri .  
"Experimental Evidence of the Lorentz-like Effective Medium Resonance in Semiconductor Hyperbolic Metamaterials using Strong Coupling to Plasmonic Metasurfaces".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2019.2930154.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1559488.

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  title        = {Experimental Evidence of the Lorentz-like Effective Medium Resonance in Semiconductor Hyperbolic Metamaterials using Strong Coupling to Plasmonic Metasurfaces},

  author       = {Campione, Salvatore and Klem, John F. and Liu, Sheng and Montano, Ines and Sinclair, Michael B. and Luk, Ting S.},

  abstractNote = {The Lorentz-like effective medium resonance (LEMR) exhibited by the longitudinal effective permittivity of semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterials (SHMs) has been known for some time. However, direct observation of this resonance proved to be difficult. Here we experimentally demonstrate its existence by strongly coupling SHMs to plasmonic metasurfaces. We consider four strong coupling implementations of SHMs that exhibit different LEMR absorption profiles (both in frequency and strength) to validate our approach.},

  doi          = {10.1109/TAP.2019.2930154},

  journal      = {IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation},

  number       = 3,

  volume       = 68,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Fri Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 2019},

  month        = {Fri Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 2019}

}

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Fig. 1: Longitudinal effective medium permittivity ε_l from Eq. (3) compared to a Lorentzian oscillator fit of Design 4 in Fig. 4. The transverse effective medium permittivity ε_t is also reported. The yellow region indicates type-II hyperbolic, grey anisotropic dielectric, and blue type-I hyperbolic.

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