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Tunable triple Fano resonance in MIM waveguide system with split ring resonator

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A plasmonic refractive index nanosensor based on Fano resonance was designed, the excellent performance of the structure was numerically achieved. The system consists of a metal–insulator-metal (MIM) waveguide with two silver baffles and a coupled split ring resonator (SRR), and the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method was utilized to study the transmission characteristics of the structure. The results show that the designed structure can excite the triple Fano resonance phenomenon. For a positive SRR structure, the transmission peak can be tuned vertically and horizontally by adjusting the structural parameters. Furthermore, the sensitivity of nanosensors can reach 1034 nm/RIU, and the maximum figure of merit (FOM) is 7.01 × 104. Interestingly, the improved symmetrical SRR structure demonstrated that the sensitivity is as high as 1053 nm/RIU, and the maximum FOM value was 1.82 × 105. High performance and good controllability can provide a new possibility for the design and optimization of nanosensor.

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This work was supported by the National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University (Grant Numbers M32060), Scientific Research Program of the Higher Education Institution of Xinjiang (Grant Numbers XJEDU2020Y038), Natural Science Foundation Project of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Grant Numbers 2019D01C001, 2019D01C002).

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  1. Department of Physics, Changji University, Changji, 831100, China

    Xuebo Liu, Qian Yang, Kexue Peng, Baohua Zhang, Xin Li, Yang Tan, Zheng Zhang & Fuqiang Guo

  2. National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Haineng Bai

  3. Xinjiang Laboratory of Phase Transitions and Microstructures of Condensed Matters, Xinjiang, 835000, Yili, China

    Fuqiang Guo

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ZB: Conceptualization, Project administration, Funding acquisition. BH: Visualization, Investigation. GF: Resources, Supervision. LX: Software, Formal analysis, Writing-Original draft preparation. YQ: Data curation, Validation, Writing-Reviewing and Editing. PK: Validation. LX: Methodology. TY: Validation. ZZ: Software.

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Liu, X., Yang, Q., Peng, K. et al. Tunable triple Fano resonance in MIM waveguide system with split ring resonator. Opt Quant Electron 53, 447 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-021-02994-w

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