A Low-loss Metasurface Antireflection Coating on Dispersive Surface Plasmon Structure

Authors

Jiyeon Jeon, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
Khagendra Bhattarai, University of South Florida
Deok-Kee Kim, Sejon University
Jun Oh Kim, University of South Florida
Augustine Urbas, Air Force Research Laboratory
Sang Jun Lee, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
Zahyun Ku, Air Force Research Laboratory
Jiangfeng Zhou, University of South FloridaFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-2-2016

Keywords

Metamaterials, Nanophotonics, plasmonics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/doi: 10.1038/srep36190 (2016)

Abstract

Over the years, there has been increasing interest in the integration of metal hole array (MHA) with optoelectronic devices, as a result of enhanced coupling of incident light into the active layer of devices via surface plasmon polariton (SPP) resonances. However, not all incident light contributes to the SPP resonances due to significant reflection loss at the interface between incident medium and MHA. Conventional thin-film antireflection (AR) coating typically does not work well due to non-existing material satisfying the AR condition with strong dispersion of MHA’s effective impedances. We demonstrate a single-layer metasurface AR coating that completely eliminates the refection and significantly increases the transmission at the SPP resonances. Operating at off-resonance wavelengths, the metasurface exhibits extremely low loss and does not show resonant coupling with the MHA layer. The SPP resonance wavelengths of MHA layer are unaffected whereas the surface wave is significantly increased, thereby paving the way for improved performance of optoelectronic devices. With an improved retrieval method, the metasurface is proved to exhibit a high effective permittivity () and extremely low loss (tan δ ~ 0.005). A classical thin-film AR coating mechanism is identified through analytical derivations and numerical simulations.

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Citation / Publisher Attribution

Scientific Reports, v. 6, art. 36190

Scholar Commons Citation

Jeon, Jiyeon; Bhattarai, Khagendra; Kim, Deok-Kee; Kim, Jun Oh; Urbas, Augustine; Lee, Sang Jun; Ku, Zahyun; and Zhou, Jiangfeng, "A Low-loss Metasurface Antireflection Coating on Dispersive Surface Plasmon Structure" (2016). Physics Faculty Publications. 15.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/phy_facpub/15