Nanophotonics (Mar 2020)

Observing and controlling a Tamm plasmon at the interface with a metasurface

  • Buchnev Oleksandr,
  • Belosludtsev Alexandr,
  • Reshetnyak Victor,
  • Evans Dean R.,
  • Fedotov Vassili A.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2019-0514
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 4
pp. 897 – 903

Abstract

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We demonstrate experimentally that Tamm plasmons in the near infrared can be supported by a dielectric mirror interfaced with a metasurface, a discontinuous thin metal film periodically patterned on the sub-wavelength scale. More crucially, not only do Tamm plasmons survive the nanopatterning of the metal film but they also become sensitive to external perturbations as a result. In particular, by depositing a nematic liquid crystal on the outer side of the metasurface, we were able to red shift the spectral position of Tamm plasmon by 35 nm, while electrical switching of the liquid crystal enabled us to tune the wavelength of this notoriously inert excitation within a 10-nm range.

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