Manipulation of multidimensional plasmonic spectra for information storage
Author(s) -
Wei Ting Chen,
Pin Chieh Wu,
Chen Jung Chen,
Chun-Jen Weng,
HsinChen Lee,
TaJen Yen,
Chieh-Hsiung Kuan,
Masud Mansuripur,
Din Ping Tsai
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
applied physics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 442
eISSN - 1077-3118
pISSN - 0003-6951
DOI - 10.1063/1.3584020
Subject(s) - plasmon , spectral line , surface plasmon polariton , materials science , nanostructure , transmittance , ellipse , optics , surface plasmon , molecular physics , optoelectronics , nanotechnology , chemistry , physics , astronomy
We demonstrate a concept of optical data storage through plasmonic resonances of metallic nanostructures. Metallic nanostructures exhibit strong variations in their reflectance and/or transmittance spectra due to surface plasmon polariton resonances. We study the variations in spectra through 50×50 arrays of repeated unit cells covering a total area of ∼50×50 μm2. Each cell contains ten different nanofeatures, such as an ellipse, a ring, a circle, a triangle, a square, etc. The size of each unit-cell is 500×500 nm2, and the periodicity is 1.0 μm. The variations in spectra are obvious enough to be distinguished and then retrieved.
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