Sub-diffractional waveguiding by mid-infrared plasmonic resonators in semiconductor nanowires
Abstract
Chains of nanoscale plasmonic resonators are capable of sub-diffractional waveguiding and have applications in nanophotonics and thermal radiation transport. Practical uses have largely been limited, however, due to high optical losses or low group velocities. In this work, we predict the waveguide performance of a material structure capable of overcoming these limitations: plasmonic resonators embedded in highdielectric nanowires. Due to the enhanced near-field coupling between resonators, we find that the group velocities and propagation lengths for doped Si plasmonic resonators in intrinsic Si nanowires can be increased by up to an order of magnitude compared to the case of isotropic vacuum surroundings. We investigate the impact of resonator aspect ratio, doping, and spacing on waveguide performance, and we find that propagation lengths are maximized for large aspect ratios and high dopant concentrations at small spacings. To study these complex anisotropic systems, we develop a new analytical “absorption spectra” method to extract waveguide information from simple far-field absorption experiments (or simulations) of only two coupled resonators.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1594762
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1434088
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0018369; DGE-1650044; 1510934
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nanoscale
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 2040-3364
- Publisher:
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING
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Tervo, Eric J., Boyuk, Dmitriy S., Cola, Baratunde A., Zhang, Zhuomin M., and Filler, Michael A. Sub-diffractional waveguiding by mid-infrared plasmonic resonators in semiconductor nanowires. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1039/c8nr00701b.
Tervo, Eric J., Boyuk, Dmitriy S., Cola, Baratunde A., Zhang, Zhuomin M., & Filler, Michael A. Sub-diffractional waveguiding by mid-infrared plasmonic resonators in semiconductor nanowires. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8nr00701b
Tervo, Eric J., Boyuk, Dmitriy S., Cola, Baratunde A., Zhang, Zhuomin M., and Filler, Michael A. Thu .
"Sub-diffractional waveguiding by mid-infrared plasmonic resonators in semiconductor nanowires". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8nr00701b. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1594762.
@article{osti_1594762,
title = {Sub-diffractional waveguiding by mid-infrared plasmonic resonators in semiconductor nanowires},
author = {Tervo, Eric J. and Boyuk, Dmitriy S. and Cola, Baratunde A. and Zhang, Zhuomin M. and Filler, Michael A.},
abstractNote = {Chains of nanoscale plasmonic resonators are capable of sub-diffractional waveguiding and have applications in nanophotonics and thermal radiation transport. Practical uses have largely been limited, however, due to high optical losses or low group velocities. In this work, we predict the waveguide performance of a material structure capable of overcoming these limitations: plasmonic resonators embedded in highdielectric nanowires. Due to the enhanced near-field coupling between resonators, we find that the group velocities and propagation lengths for doped Si plasmonic resonators in intrinsic Si nanowires can be increased by up to an order of magnitude compared to the case of isotropic vacuum surroundings. We investigate the impact of resonator aspect ratio, doping, and spacing on waveguide performance, and we find that propagation lengths are maximized for large aspect ratios and high dopant concentrations at small spacings. To study these complex anisotropic systems, we develop a new analytical “absorption spectra” method to extract waveguide information from simple far-field absorption experiments (or simulations) of only two coupled resonators.},
doi = {10.1039/c8nr00701b},
journal = {Nanoscale},
number = 12,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Mar 08 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Thu Mar 08 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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