Enhanced infrared transmission from gold wire-grid arrays via surface plasmons in continuous graphene (Presentation Recording)

Zizhuo Liu; Serkan Bütün; Edgar Palacios; Koray Aydin

doi:10.1117/12.2186872

5 October 2015 Enhanced infrared transmission from gold wire-grid arrays via surface plasmons in continuous graphene (Presentation Recording)

Zizhuo Liu, Serkan Bütün, Edgar Palacios, Koray Aydin

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Proceedings Volume 9546, Active Photonic Materials VII; 95461X (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2186872
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Enhanced transmission of light through nanostructures has always been of great interest in the field of plasmonics and nanophotonics. With the aid of near-field effects, the transmission of the electromagnetic waves can be enhanced or suppressed. Much of the work on enhanced transmission has been shown to be frequency-selective. However it is possible to increase the transmission over a large frequency range by using graphene, which has shown broadband properties in many applications. Here, we propose enhanced transmission in wire grid gold structure making use of continuous graphene sheets. We use finite-difference time-domain simulations to study the optical properties of this graphene-metal hybrid structure at mid infrared (mid-IR) wavelengths. The grating structure in wire grid gold provides an ideal platform to match the momentum and excite the surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in monolayer graphene. Our numerical calculations show that the local electromagnetic field around the graphene is largely enhanced due to surface plasmons. Moreover, with the highly confined SPPs coupling with the incident light, the transmission through the whole structure can be broadly enhanced in the mid infrared region. We also analyze the effect of the spectrum with different periods and gold nanowire widths to evaluate the size effects of the plasmons in graphene. In addition, by tuning the Fermi level, one can control the wavelength range at which the transmission is enhanced. The mechanism of the enhancement will be explained in the calculated electric field distribution. And we will also highlight the opportunities of graphene for applications such as tunable transmission and active photonic modulator.

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Zizhuo Liu, Serkan Bütün, Edgar Palacios, and Koray Aydin "Enhanced infrared transmission from gold wire-grid arrays via surface plasmons in continuous graphene (Presentation Recording)", Proc. SPIE 9546, Active Photonic Materials VII, 95461X (5 October 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2186872

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Graphene

Gold

Mid-IR

Surface plasmons

Infrared radiation

Electromagnetic radiation

Nanophotonics

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