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Title: A hybrid nanoantenna for highly enhanced directional spontaneous emission

Abstract

Spontaneous emission modulated by a hybrid plasmonic nanoantenna has been investigated by employing finite-difference time-domain method. The hybrid nanoantenna configurations constituted by a gap hot-spot and of a plasmonic corrugated grating and a metal reflector sandwiching a SiO{sub 2} thin layer which appears promising for high spontaneous emission enhancement devices. Simulation assays show that the coupling between the gap-antenna and plasmonic corrugations reaches an ultra-high near-field enhancement factor in the excitation process. Moreover, concerning the emission process, the corrugations concentrate the far-field radiated power within a tiny angular volume, offering unprecedented collection efficiency. In the past decades, many kinds of optical antennas have been proposed and optimized to enhance single molecule detection. However, the excitation enhancement effect for single individual or dimmer plasmonic nanostructure is limited due to intrinsic nonradiative decay of the nanoparticle plasmon and quantum tunneling effect. The proposed hybrid configuration overwhelms the enhancement limit of single individual plasmonic structure. The findings provide an insight into spontaneous emission high enhancement through integrating the functions of different metallic nanostructures.

Authors:
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  1. State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)
  2. MATEIS, UMR 5510 CNRS, INSA-Lyon, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne Cedex 69621 (France)
  3. ILM, UMR 5306 CNRS, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne Cedex 69622 (France)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22304049
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Journal of Applied Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 115; Journal Issue: 24; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0021-8979
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; ANTENNAS; COUPLING; DECAY; DETECTION; EFFICIENCY; EMISSION; EXCITATION; HYBRID SYSTEMS; METALS; MOLECULES; NANOSTRUCTURES; SILICON OXIDES; SIMULATION; SUPERRADIANCE; THIN FILMS; TUNNEL EFFECT

Citation Formats

Chou, R. Yuanying, Lu, Guowei, Shen, Hongming, He, Yingbo, Cheng, Yuqing, Perriat, Pascal, Martini, Matteo, Tillement, Olivier, Gong, Qihuang, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871. A hybrid nanoantenna for highly enhanced directional spontaneous emission. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4885422.
Chou, R. Yuanying, Lu, Guowei, Shen, Hongming, He, Yingbo, Cheng, Yuqing, Perriat, Pascal, Martini, Matteo, Tillement, Olivier, Gong, Qihuang, & Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871. A hybrid nanoantenna for highly enhanced directional spontaneous emission. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4885422
Chou, R. Yuanying, Lu, Guowei, Shen, Hongming, He, Yingbo, Cheng, Yuqing, Perriat, Pascal, Martini, Matteo, Tillement, Olivier, Gong, Qihuang, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871. 2014. "A hybrid nanoantenna for highly enhanced directional spontaneous emission". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4885422.
@article{osti_22304049,
title = {A hybrid nanoantenna for highly enhanced directional spontaneous emission},
author = {Chou, R. Yuanying and Lu, Guowei and Shen, Hongming and He, Yingbo and Cheng, Yuqing and Perriat, Pascal and Martini, Matteo and Tillement, Olivier and Gong, Qihuang and Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871},
abstractNote = {Spontaneous emission modulated by a hybrid plasmonic nanoantenna has been investigated by employing finite-difference time-domain method. The hybrid nanoantenna configurations constituted by a gap hot-spot and of a plasmonic corrugated grating and a metal reflector sandwiching a SiO{sub 2} thin layer which appears promising for high spontaneous emission enhancement devices. Simulation assays show that the coupling between the gap-antenna and plasmonic corrugations reaches an ultra-high near-field enhancement factor in the excitation process. Moreover, concerning the emission process, the corrugations concentrate the far-field radiated power within a tiny angular volume, offering unprecedented collection efficiency. In the past decades, many kinds of optical antennas have been proposed and optimized to enhance single molecule detection. However, the excitation enhancement effect for single individual or dimmer plasmonic nanostructure is limited due to intrinsic nonradiative decay of the nanoparticle plasmon and quantum tunneling effect. The proposed hybrid configuration overwhelms the enhancement limit of single individual plasmonic structure. The findings provide an insight into spontaneous emission high enhancement through integrating the functions of different metallic nanostructures.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4885422},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22304049}, journal = {Journal of Applied Physics},
issn = {0021-8979},
number = 24,
volume = 115,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Jun 28 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Sat Jun 28 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}