Title :
Ceramic plasmonic components for optical metamaterials
Author :
Naik, Gururaj V. ; Boltasseva, Alexandra
Author_Institution :
Birck Nanotechnol. Center, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
The performance of metamaterial and transformation-optics devices is limited by losses in their plasmonic components. We show that ceramics (heavily doped-zinc oxide and titanium nitride) could help in overcoming the loss issue in the optical range.
Keywords :
II-VI semiconductors; aluminium; ceramics; gallium; heavily doped semiconductors; metamaterials; optical losses; plasmonics; titanium compounds; wide band gap semiconductors; zinc compounds; TiN; ZnO:Al; ZnO:Ga; ceramic plasmonic components; heavily doped-zinc oxide; optical loss; optical metamaterials; titanium nitride; transformation-optics devices; Metamaterials; Optical films; Optical losses; Plasmons; Tin; Zinc oxide;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
