Overcoming the adverse effects of substrate on the waveguiding properties of plasmonic nanoparticle chains
Author(s) -
Ilia L. Rasskazov,
С. В. Карпов,
George Y. Panasyuk,
Vadim A. Markel
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of applied physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.699
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1089-7550
pISSN - 0021-8979
DOI - 10.1063/1.4940415
Subject(s) - plasmon , substrate (aquarium) , nanoparticle , surface plasmon polariton , materials science , dielectric , oblate spheroid , plasmonic nanoparticles , symmetry (geometry) , aspect ratio (aeronautics) , surface plasmon , optics , nanotechnology , optoelectronics , physics , geometry , classical mechanics , mathematics , geology , oceanography
International audienceWe have studied numerically the propagation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in linear periodic chains of plasmonic nanoparticles of different shapes. The chains are deposited on top of a thick dielectric substrate. While in many commonly considered cases the substrate tends to suppress the SPP propagation, we have found that this adverse effect is practically absent in the case when the nanoparticles have the shape of oblate spheroids with sufficiently small aspect ratio (e.g., nanodisks) whose axis of symmetry coincides with the axis of the chain
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