Aluminum Outshines Silver: Radiative Decay Engineering and Ultrahigh Q-Factor Plasmonics with a Lossy Metal

Autor: Xiangchao Zhu, Matthew C. George, Ahmet Cicek, Arash Farhang, Golam Md. Imran Hossain, Ahmet Ali Yanik
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics.
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2020.ff3q.2
Popis: Aluminum has emerged as a broadband and low-cost alternative to noble metals. We demonstrate remarkably high quality-factor plasmonic resonances in inverse-designed aluminum- nanostructures over a broad spectrum from visible to near-ultraviolet, surpassing those of silver counterparts.
Databáze: OpenAIRE