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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2017)

Extending the Frequency Range of Surface Plasmon Polariton Mode with Meta-Material

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-016-0110-8
Fengyu Zhou
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
Fang Liu
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
Long Xiao
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
Kaiyu Cui
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
Xue Feng
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
Wei Zhang
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China
Yidong Huang
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Fang Liu

liu_fang@tsinghua.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 9 No. 1 (2017), Article Number: 9

Abstract

The frequency range that surface plasmon polariton (SPP) mode exists is mainly limited by the metal material. With high permittivity dielectrics above metal surface, the SPP mode at high frequency has extremely large loss or can be cutoff, which limits the potential applications of SPP in the field of optical interconnection, active SPP devices and so on. To extend the frequency range of SPP mode, the surface mode guided by metal/dielectric multilayers meta-material has been studied based on the theory of electromagnetic field. It is demonstrated that surface mode not only could be supported by the meta-material but also extends the frequency to where conventional metal SPP cannot exist. Meanwhile, the characteristics of this surface mode, such as dispersion relation, frequency range, propagation loss and skin depth in meta-material and dielectrics, are also studied. It is indicated that, by varying the structure parameters, the meta-material guided SPP mode presents its advantages and flexibility over traditional metal one.

Keywords

Plasmonics Surface plasmon polariton Hyperbolic meta-material Surface mode
Zhou, Fengyu, Fang Liu, Long Xiao, Kaiyu Cui, Xue Feng, Wei Zhang, and Yidong Huang. 2016. “Extending the Frequency Range of Surface Plasmon Polariton Mode With Meta-Material”. Nano-Micro Letters 9 (1):9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-016-0110-8.
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