Photonic crystal nanobeam cavities for single-step metal nanoparticle integration

Author

Mukherjee, Ishita ; Hajisalem, Ghazal ; Gordon, Reuven

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

fYear

2011

fDate

15-18 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

969

Lastpage

972

Abstract

We present the simulation results, fabrication and measurements of a Si₃N₄ nanobeam cavity as a first step of obtaining enhanced single photon emission from quantum emitters in a photonic crystal cavity incorporating a metal nanoparticle. The cavity is designed to resonate at the operating wavelength of a CdSe quantum dot emitter. We use focused ion beam (FIB) milling as a one step process and have successfully achieved cavities with quality factors >;30,000. Future work will involve incorporating metal nanoparticles in to the cavities for which we have synthesized colloidal silver nanoparticles.

Keywords

focused ion beam technology; milling; nanoparticles; nanophotonics; optical fabrication; photonic crystals; silicon compounds; silver; Si₃N₄; focused ion beam milling; nanobeam cavity; nanoparticles; photonic crystal cavity; photonic crystal nanobeam cavities; quantum dot emitter; quantum emitters; single photon emission; single-step metal nanoparticle integration; Cavity resonators; Fabrication; Metals; Nanoparticles; Photonic crystals; Photonics; Plasmons; Quantum emitter; focused ion beam; photonic beam cavity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), 2011 11th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Portland, OR

ISSN

1944-9399

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1514-3

Electronic_ISBN

1944-9399

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NANO.2011.6144507

Filename

6144507