Temperature-induced hysteresis in amplification and attenuation of surface-plasmon-polariton waves

The propagation of surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves at the planar interface of a metal and a dielectric material was investigated for a dielectric material with strongly temperature-dependent constitutive properties. The metal was silver and the dielectric material was vanadium multioxide impre...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of physics communications 2023-06, Vol.7 (6), p.61002
Hauptverfasser: Mackay, Tom G, Son, Tran Vinh, Haché, Alain, Lakhtakia, Akhlesh
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The propagation of surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves at the planar interface of a metal and a dielectric material was investigated for a dielectric material with strongly temperature-dependent constitutive properties. The metal was silver and the dielectric material was vanadium multioxide impregnated with a combination of active dyes. Depending upon the volume fraction of vanadium multioxide, either attenuation or amplification of the SPP waves may be achieved; the degree of attenuation or amplification is strongly dependent on both the temperature and whether the temperature is increasing or decreasing. At intermediate volume fractions of vanadium multioxide, for a fixed temperature, a SPP wave may experience attenuation if the temperature is increasing but experience amplification if the temperature is decreasing.
ISSN:2399-6528
2399-6528
DOI:10.1088/2399-6528/acda7a