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We report the fabrication and characterization of a plasmonic metasurface comprising electrically contacted sub-wavelength gold dipole nanoantennas, conformally coated by a thin hafnia film, an indium tin oxide layer and a backside mirror,…

Single metallic nanorods acting as half-wave antennas in the optical range exhibit an asymmetric, multi-resonant scattering spectrum that strongly depends on both their length and dielectric properties. Here we show that such spectral…

We present a refractometric sensor realized as a stack of metallic gratings with subwavelength features and embedded within a low-index dielectric medium. Light is strongly confined through funneling mechanisms and excites resonances that…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-06 Mahmoud H. Elshorbagy , Alexander Cuadrado , Javier Alda

We study the plasmon excitations and the electromagnetic response of the magnetically doped single layer and multilayer of ``helical metals'', which emerge at the surfaces of topological insulators. For the single layer case, we find a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 Fei Ye , Chaoxing Liu

Nonlinear signal even from a single molecule becomes visible at hot spots of plasmonic nanoparticles. In these structures, Fano resonances can control the nonlinear response in two ways. \textit{(i)} A linear Fano resonance can enhance the…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-07 Mehmet Günay , Zafer Artvin , Alpan Bek , Mehmet Emre Tasgin

We show that, nonlinear optical processes of nanoparticles can be controlled by the presence of interactions with a molecule or a quantum dot. By choosing the appropriate level spacing for the quantum emitter, one can either suppress or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-22 Deniz Turkpence , Gursoy B. Akguc , Alpan Bek , Mehmet Emre Tasgin

We demonstrate that the trapped magnetic resonance mode can be induced in an asymmetric double-bar structure for electromagnetic waves normally incident onto the double-bar plane, which mode otherwise cannot be excited if the double bars…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Zheng-Gao Dong , Hui Liu , Tao Li , Shu-Ming Wang , Shi-Ning Zhu , Xiang Zhang

We investigate light scattering by coated spheres composed of a dispersive plasmonic core and a dielectric shell. By writing the absorption cross-section in terms of the internal electromagnetic fields, we demonstrate it is an observable…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Tiago J. Arruda , Alexandre S. Martinez , Felipe A. Pinheiro

The behavior of Fano resonance and the reversal of near field optical binding force of dimers over different substrates have not been studied so far. In this work, we observe that if the closely located plasmonic cube homodimers over glass…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-20 M. R. C. Mahdy , Tianhang Zhang , Md. Danesh , Weiqiang Ding

We present an electrically driven plasmonic device consisting of a gold nanoparticle trapped in a gap between two electrodes. The tunneling current in the device generates plasmons, which decay radiatively. The emitted spectrum extends up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 Yuval Vardi , Eyal Cohen-Hoshen , Guy Shalem , Israel Bar-Joseph

We show that surface plasmons of a two-dimensional Dirac metal such as graphene can be reflected by line-like perturbations hosting one-dimensional electron states. The reflection originates from a strong enhancement of the local optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Bor-Yuan Jiang , Guangxin Ni , Cheng Pan , Zhe Fei , Bin Cheng , Chun Ning Lau , Marc Bockrath , Dimitri N. Basov , Michael M. Fogler

Plasmonic metasurfaces have been employed for tuning and controlling light enabling various novel applications. Their appeal is enhanced with the incorporation of an active element with the metasurfaces paving the way for dynamic control.…

We demonstrate that the introduction of a subwavelength periodic modulation into a metallic structure strongly modifies the guiding characteristics of the surface plasmon modes supported by the system. Moreover, it is also shown how a new…

We study an ultra-compact plasmonic modulator that can be applied in photonic integrated circuits. The modulator is a metal-insulator-metal waveguide with an additional ultra-thin layer of indium tin oxide (ITO). Bias is applied to the…

Optics · Physics 2013-08-15 Viktoriia E. Babicheva , Andrei V. Lavrinenko

It is shown that an attenuated total reflection structure containing a graphene layer can operate as a tunable polarizer of the electromagnetic radiation. The polarization angle is controlled by adjusting the voltage applied to graphene via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-31 Yuliy V. Bludov , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy , Nuno M. R. Peres

We report here and experimentally demonstrate an actively controlled gatetunable plasmonic metasurface operating in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum, where strikingly the operating voltages for reflectance modulation are…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-13 Krishnan Thyagarajan , Ruzan Sokhoyan , Leo Zornberg , Harry Atwater

The in-plane optical phonons around 200 meV in few-layer graphene are investigated utilizing infrared absorption spectroscopy. The phonon spectra exhibit unusual asymmetric features characteristic of Fano resonances, which depend critically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Zhiqiang Li , Chun Hung Lui , Emmanuele Cappelluti , Lara Benfatto , Kin Fai Mak , G. Larry Carr , Jie Shan , Tony F. Heinz

Omni-directional light coupling to surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes to make use of plasmon mediated near-field enhancement is challenging. We report possibility of near dispersion-less modes in structures with unpatterned…

We present theoretical study of ferromagnetic resonance in a system of two coupled magnetic layers. We show that an interaction between the layers leads to the occurrence of the so-called Fano resonance. The Fano resonance changes the shape…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 O. G. Udalov , A. A. Fraerman , E. S. Demidov

Tunability of the surface plasmon resonance wavelength is demonstrated by varying the thickness of Al2O3 spacer layer inserted between the graphene and nanoparticles. By varying the spacer layer thickness from 0.3 to 1.8 nm, the resonance…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Jing Niu , Young Jun Shin , Youngbin Lee , Jong-Hyun Ahn , Hyunsoo Yang