Porosity effect on surface plasmon resonance from metallic sculptured thin films

Ibrahim Abdulhalim; Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Amit Lahav; Fan Zhang; Jian Xu

doi:10.1117/12.794135

Porosity effect on surface plasmon resonance from metallic sculptured thin films

Ibrahim Abdulhalim, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Amit Lahav, Fan Zhang, Jian Xu

Unit of Photonics and Electro-Optics Engineering

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Abstract

When a sculptured thin film (STF), made of a metal and ≤ 50 nm thick, is used in lieu of a dense layer of metal in the Kretschmann configuration, experimental data for a STF comprising parallel tilted nanowires shows that a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) can still be excited. As the porosity of the chosen STF increases, experimental data and numerical simulations indicate the SPR dip with respect to the angle of incidence of the exciting plane wave widens and eventually disappears, leaving behind a a vestigial peak near the onset to the total-internal-reflection regime.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Nanostructured Thin Films
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.794135
State	Published - 21 Nov 2008
Event	Nanostructured Thin Films - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: 13 Aug 2008 → 14 Aug 2008

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	7041
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

Conference

Conference	Nanostructured Thin Films
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego, CA
Period	13/08/08 → 14/08/08

Keywords

Columnar thin film
Surface plasmon resonance

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Nanostructured Thin Films. 2008. 70410C (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 7041).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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