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A Route to Unusually Broadband Plasmonic Absorption Spanning from Visible to Mid-infrared

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In this paper, a route to ultra-broadband absorption is suggested and demonstrated by a feasible design. The high absorption regime (absorption above 90%) for the suggested structure ranges from visible to mid-infrared (MIR), i.e., for the wavelength varying from 478 to 3278 nm that yields an ultra-wide band with the width of 2800 nm. The structure consists of a top-layer-patterned metal-insulator-metal (MIM) configuration, into the insulator layer of which, an ultra-thin 5 nm layer of manganese (Mn) is embedded. The MIM configuration represents a Ti-Al2O3-Ti tri-layer. It is shown that, without the ultra-thin layer of Mn, the absorption bandwidth is reduced to 274 nm. Therefore, adding only a 5 nm layer of Mn leads to a more than tenfold increase in the width of the absorption band. It is explained in detail that the physical mechanism yielding this ultra-broadband result is a combination of plasmonic and non-plasmonic resonance modes, along with the appropriate optical properties of Mn. This structure has the relative bandwidth (RBW) of 149%, while only one step of lithography is required for its fabrication, so it is relatively simple. This makes it rather promising for practical applications.

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Acknowledgments

Ekmel Ozbay acknowledges partial support from the TUBA. Amin Khavasi also acknowledges Research Office of Sharif University of Technology.

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Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN), Poland (DEC-2015/17/B/ST3/00118–Metasel); Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA); Research Office of Sharif University of Technology.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, 06800, Ankara, Turkey

    Majid Aalizadeh & Ekmel Ozbay

  2. Nanotechnology Research Center (NANOTAM), Bilkent University, 06800, Ankara, Turkey

    Majid Aalizadeh & Ekmel Ozbay

  3. Electrical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 11155-4363, Iran

    Amin Khavasi

  4. ESAT-TELEMIC, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

    Andriy E. Serebryannikov & Guy A. E. Vandenbosch

  5. Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, 61-614, Poznan, Poland

    Andriy E. Serebryannikov

  6. National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM), Bilkent University, 06800, Ankara, Turkey

    Ekmel Ozbay

  7. Department of Physics, Bilkent University, 06800, Ankara, Turkey

    Ekmel Ozbay

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Aalizadeh, M., Khavasi, A., Serebryannikov, A.E. et al. A Route to Unusually Broadband Plasmonic Absorption Spanning from Visible to Mid-infrared. Plasmonics 14, 1269–1281 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-019-00916-x

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