Material effects on V-nanoantenna performance

SK Earl; DE Gómez; TD James; TJ Davis; A Roberts

Journal article

Material effects on V-nanoantenna performance

SK Earl, DE Gómez, TD James, TJ Davis, A Roberts

Nanoscale | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.1039/c4nr06650b

Abstract

There is great interest in aluminum based plasmonic devices due to the relatively high plasma frequency of this material as well as its low cost and self-passivating oxide layer. The passivation layer provides aluminum plasmonics with the long-term stability required for practical applications. While several studies have investigated the impact of this oxide layer on the plasmon resonances of aluminum nanostructures on glass substrates, little is known about the effect of high-refractive index substrates on these resonances. Here we present an investigation of aluminum V-shaped antennas resonant in the visible on a silicon substrate. Through comparison between numerical and experimental resu..

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Timothy James Author

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Ann Roberts Author

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was performed in part at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN) in the Victorian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF). It has been supported by the Melbourne-Vanderbilt Partnership grant and by a grant from the Defence Science Institute. This research was also supported under the Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme (project numbers DP110100221 and DP110101767) and a Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication Technical Fellowship.