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Metallic Plasmonic Nano-antenna for Wireless Optical Communication in Intra-body Nanonetworks

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.28-9-2015.2261410,
        author={Mona Nafari and Josep Miquel Jornet},
        title={Metallic Plasmonic Nano-antenna for Wireless Optical Communication in Intra-body Nanonetworks},
        journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cognitive Communications},
        volume={2},
        number={9},
        publisher={ACM},
        journal_a={COGCOM},
        year={2015},
        month={12},
        keywords={nanophotonics, plasmonics, nano-antenna, nanonetworks},
        doi={10.4108/eai.28-9-2015.2261410}
    }
    
  • Mona Nafari
    Josep Miquel Jornet
    Year: 2015
    Metallic Plasmonic Nano-antenna for Wireless Optical Communication in Intra-body Nanonetworks
    COGCOM
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.28-9-2015.2261410
Mona Nafari1, Josep Miquel Jornet1,*
  • 1: University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
*Contact email: jmjornet@buffalo.edu

Abstract

Nanonetworks consist of nano-sized communicating devices which are able to perform simple tasks at the nanoscale. Nanonetworks are the enabling technology for unique applications, including intra-body health-monitoring and drug delivery systems. In this paper, metallic plasmonic nano-antennas for wireless optical communication in intra-body nanonetworks are modeled and analyzed. More specifically, a unified mathematical framework is developed to investigate the performance in reception of gold-based nano-dipole antennas. This framework takes into account the metal properties, i.e., its dynamic complex conductivity and permittivity; the propagation properties of Surface Plasmon Polariton waves on the nano-antenna, i.e., their confinement factor and propagation length; the antenna geometry, i.e., length and radius, and the antenna fundamental resonance frequency, and it can be utilized to obtain the plasmonic currents on the nano-antenna generated by an incident EM filed. In addition to numerical results, the analytical models are validated by means of simulations with COMSOL Multi-physics. The developed framework will guide the design and development of novel nano-antennas suited for wireless optical communication in intra-body nanonetworks.

Keywords
nanophotonics, plasmonics, nano-antenna, nanonetworks
Published
2015-12-14
Publisher
ACM
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.28-9-2015.2261410

Copyright © 2015 J. M. Jornet and M. Nafari, licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.

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