Excitation of plasmonic nanoantennas with nonresonant and resonant electron tunnelling

Autor:	Uskov, Alexander V., Khurgin, Jacob B., Protsenko, Igor E., Smetanin, Igor V., Bouhelier, Alexandre
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Physics - Optics Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1039/c6nr01931e
Popis:	A rigorous theory of photon emission accompanied inelastic tunnelling inside the gap of plasmonic nanoantennas has been developed. The disappointingly low efficiency of the electrical excitation of surface plasmon polaritons in these structures can be increased by orders of magnitude when a resonant tunnelling structure is incorporated inside the gap. Resonant tunnelling assisted surface plasmon emitter may become a key element in future electrically-driven nanoplasmonic circuits. Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06721 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv