Integrated Plasmon-Optic Circuits for Nanometric Sources and Sensors.

摘要

The use metal-insulator-metal (MIM) tunnel junctions (TJs) as surface plasmon polariton (SPP) generators and detectors that are integrable into efficient plasmonic circuits of sub-micron dimensions. To demonstrate many of the key building blocks that will facilitate the construction of micron-sized integrated plasmonic circuits. Methodology (for Objective 1): Design & demonstrate nanostructured MIM tunnel junctions as efficient SPP generators (SPGs) and light emitters with > 5% electrical-to-SPP power conversion efficiency and > 1% electrical-to-optical power conversion efficiency * Design & demonstrate low-loss.