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Short-Range Surface Plasmon Polaritons for Extraordinary Low Transmission Through Ultra-Thin Metal Films with Nanopatterns

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We provide both experimental and theoretical investigation on extraordinary low transmission through one-dimensional nanoslit and two-dimensional nanohole arrays on ultra-thin metal films. Unambiguous proofs demonstrate that short-range surface plasmon polaritons play a key role leading to this novel phenomenon, which could be useful for creating new polarization filters and other integrated plasmonic components.

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Acknowledgment

Q. Gan, W. Bai, Y. Gao, and F. Bartoli are supported by NSF (Award no. 0901324). SH Jiang is supported by NSFC (Award no. 51001029). The authors appreciate Mr. Lei Wang in Fudan University for the assistance in numerical modeling.

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  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 18015, USA

    Qiaoqiang Gan, Wenli Bai, Yongkang Gao & Filbert J. Bartoli

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA

    Qiaoqiang Gan

  3. Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100083, China

    Wenli Bai

  4. Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China

    Suhua Jiang

  5. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA

    Wendi Li & Wei Wu

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Fig. S1

The setup of the transmission measurement system based on an inverted microscope (Olympus IX81). A Xenon lamp is used as the light source. The transmission light is collected by a ×40 objective lens with a numerical aperture of 0.6. A diaphragm is used to confine the observation area. The collected light is coupled into a multimode fiber bundle interfaced with a compact spectrometer (Ocean Optics USB 4000) (DOC 134 kb)

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a Measured TE transmission spectra through the nanopatterned metal film characterized in Fig. 2. b Numerical simulation of the TE transmission the sample. We believe that the difference between the experiment and modeling results is introduced by the nonparallel incident light employed in the microscope imaging system. In addition, nanofabrication error and surface roughness of the sample should also play an important role in the observation, which cannot be considered completely in the numerical modeling (DOC 430 kb)

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Gan, Q., Bai, W., Jiang, S. et al. Short-Range Surface Plasmon Polaritons for Extraordinary Low Transmission Through Ultra-Thin Metal Films with Nanopatterns. Plasmonics 7, 47–52 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-011-9274-8

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