Plasmonic cavity made of defect in an array of asymmetric T-shaped structures

Mohammed Nadhim Abbas; Yia-Chung Chang; M. H. Shih

doi:10.1117/12.892958

20 September 2011 Plasmonic cavity made of defect in an array of asymmetric T-shaped structures

Mohammed Nadhim Abbas, Yia-Chung Chang, M. H. Shih

Proceedings Volume 8096, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties IX; 80962G (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.892958
Event: SPIE NanoScience + Engineering, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We study plasmonic cavity in a 1D array of asymmetric T-shaped plasmonic gratings. The asymmetric T-shaped plasmonic grating contains a silver bigrating structure. The first metallic grating contains the post of the T-shaped structure embedded in SiO2 and the second metallic grating is the cap of the T-shaped structure embedded in air. The bigrating can open a large plasmonic band gap (~ 0.15eV). We introduce a defect in a 1D array of asymmetric T-shaped structure by reducing the width of the cap in one line or in multiple lines. We have studied two kinds of defects. The first defect is a missing line from the T-shaped grating and it has a relatively low quality factor of 64 and a very small effective mode area [0.026 (λ/n)²]. The second one is done by removing or shifting more than one line from the T-shaped grating to make a gentler confinement and it leads to an enhancement of the quality factor (~200) and a slight increase in the effective mode area to [0.0375 (λ/n)²].

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Mohammed Nadhim Abbas, Yia-Chung Chang, and M. H. Shih "Plasmonic cavity made of defect in an array of asymmetric T-shaped structures", Proc. SPIE 8096, Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties IX, 80962G (20 September 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.892958

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