Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Physics
Journal Title
Optics Letters
Pub Date
1-2013
Volume
38
Issue
3
First Page
368
Abstract
We demonstrate that the resonances of infrared plasmonic antennas can be tuned or switched on/off by taking advantage of the thermally driven insulator-to-metal phase transition in vanadium dioxide (VO2). Y-shaped antennas were fabricated on a 180 nm film of VO2 deposited on a sapphire substrate, and their resonances were shown to depend on the temperature of the VO2 film in proximity of its phase transition, in good agreement with full-wave simulations. We achieved tunability of the resonance wavelength of approximately 10% (>1 μm at λ ∼ 10 μm).
Recommended Citation
Kats, Mikhail A.; Blanchard, Romain; (...); Qazilbash, M. M.; and et al., Thermal tuning of mid-infrared plasmonic antenna arrays using a phase change material (2013). Optics Letters, 38(3), 368-370.
https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.38.000368
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.38.000368
