Design of metal-grating-based surface plasmon interconnector between thin metal films

Dawoon Choi; Il-Min Lee,; Yongjun Lim,; Junghyun Park; Byoungho Lee

ChinaCom2009-Optical Communications and Networking Symposium

Research Article

Design of metal-grating-based surface plasmon interconnector between thin metal films

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339838,
    author={Dawoon Choi and Il-Min Lee, and Yongjun Lim, and Junghyun Park and Byoungho Lee},
    title={Design of metal-grating-based surface plasmon interconnector between thin metal films},
    proceedings={ChinaCom2009-Optical Communications and Networking Symposium},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM2009-OCN},
    year={2009},
    month={11},
    keywords={Surface plasmon polaritons; finite-element method; interconnector; metal film},
    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339838}
}

Dawoon Choi
Il-Min Lee,
Yongjun Lim,
Junghyun Park
Byoungho Lee
Year: 2009
Design of metal-grating-based surface plasmon interconnector between thin metal films
CHINACOM2009-OCN
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339838

Dawoon Choi¹, Il-Min Lee,¹, Yongjun Lim,¹, Junghyun Park¹, Byoungho Lee¹^,*

1: National Creative Research Center for Active Plasmonics Application Systems Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center and School of Electrical Engineering Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, Korea

*Contact email: byoungho@snu.ac.kr

Abstract

Metal-grating-based interconnection schemes which interconnect two or three layers of thin metal film waveguides for the surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are investigated. In our proposed structure, SPPs propagating along a metal film are diffracted with a specific deviation angle when they pass through metal gratings. The diffracted light waves are converted into the SPP mode by properly arranged metal gratings on each metal film. Based on the well-established finite-element method (FEM), the design of proposed interconnector structures is evaluated and the performances are analyzed numerically. The efficiency of the directional interconnection is analyzed also.

Keywords: Surface plasmon polaritons; finite-element method; interconnector; metal film

Published: 2009-11-20
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339838