Journal article
Coupled Tamm Phonon and Plasmon Polaritons for Designer Planar Multiresonance Absorbers
Advanced materials (Weinheim), Vol.35(20), pp.e2209909-n/a
05/2023
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202209909
PMID: 36843308
Abstract
Wavelength-selective absorbers (WS-absorbers) are of interest for various applications, including chemical sensing and light sources. Lithography-free fabrication of WS-absorbers can be realized via Tamm plasmon polaritons (TPPs) supported by distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) on plasmonic materials. While multifrequency and nearly arbitrary spectra can be realized with TPPs via inverse design algorithms, demanding and thick DBRs are required for high quality-factors (Q-factors) and/or multiband TPP-absorbers, increasing the cost and reducing fabrication error tolerance. Here, high Q-factor multiband absorption with limited DBR layers (3 layers) is experimentally demonstrated by Tamm hybrid polaritons (THPs) formed by coupling TPPs and Tamm phonon polaritons when modal frequencies are overlapped. Compared to the TPP component, the Q-factors of THPs are improved twofold, and the angular broadening is also reduced twofold, facilitating applications where narrow-band and nondispersive WS-absorbers are needed. Moreover, an open-source algorithm is developed to inversely design THP-absorbers consisting of anisotropic media and exemplify that the modal frequencies can be assigned to desirable positions. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that inversely designed THP-absorbers can realize same spectral resonances with fewer DBR layers than a TPP-absorber, thus reducing the fabrication complexity and enabling more cost-effective, lithography-free, wafer-scale WS-absorberss for applications such as free-space communications and gas sensing.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Coupled Tamm Phonon and Plasmon Polaritons for Designer Planar Multiresonance Absorbers
- Creators
- Mingze He - Vanderbilt UniversityJoshua Ryan Nolen - Vanderbilt UniversityJosh Nordlander - Pennsylvania State UniversityAngela Cleri - Pennsylvania State UniversityGuanyu Lu - Vanderbilt UniversityThiago Arnaud - University of FloridaNathaniel S. McIlwaine - Pennsylvania State UniversityKatja Diaz-Granados - Vanderbilt UniversityEli Janzen - Kansas State UniversityThomas G. Folland - University of IowaJames H. Edgar - Kansas State UniversityJon-Paul Maria - Pennsylvania State UniversityJoshua D. Caldwell - Vanderbilt University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Advanced materials (Weinheim), Vol.35(20), pp.e2209909-n/a
- Publisher
- Wiley
- DOI
- 10.1002/adma.202209909
- PMID
- 36843308
- ISSN
- 0935-9648
- eISSN
- 1521-4095
- Number of pages
- 10
- Grant note
- Department of Defense (DoD) through the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Program; United States Department of Defense Army Research Office Sensorium Technological Laboratories, Inc W911NF-22-P-0029; NSF DMR-1852157 / Office of Naval Research Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program - National Science Foundation N000142012474 / Army Research Office University of Iowa, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2023
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984429055502771
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