Dependence of Q factor on surface roughness in a plasmonic cavity
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2016
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Kim, Y.H.
Ee, H.S.
Hwang, Y.
No, Y.S.
a Park, H.G.
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Journal of the Optical Society of Korea, 2016; 20(1):188-191
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We investigated surface-roughness-dependent optical loss in a plasmonic cavity consisting of a semiconductor nanodisk/silver nanopan structure. Numerical simulations show that the quality factors of plasmonic resonant modes significantly depend on the surface roughness of the dielectric-metal interface in the cavity structure. In the transverse-magnetic-like whispering-gallery plasmonic mode excited in a structure with disk diameter of 1000 nm, the total quality factor decreased from 260 to 130 with increasing root-mean-square (rms) surface roughness from 0 to 5 nm. This quantitative theoretical study shows that the smooth metal surface plays a critical role in high-performance plasmonic devices.
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Copyright 2015 Optical Society of Korea