From symmetric to asymmetric bowtie nanoantennas: electrostatic conformal mapping perspective
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Author(s)
Pacheco-Peña, Victor
Alves, Rúben A
Navarro-Cía, Miguel
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Plasmonic nanoantennas have revolutionized the way we study and modulate light–matter interaction. Due to nanofabrication limitations, dimer-type nanoantennas always exhibit some degree of asymmetry, which is desirable in some cases. For instance, in sensing applications, asymmetry is sometimes induced by design in plasmonic nanoantennas to favor higher order nonradiative modes with sharp Fano line shapes. Regardless of the actual origin of the asymmetry, unintentional or intentional, an analytical frame that can deal with it in a seamless manner would be beneficial. We resort to conformal mapping for this task and we track the influence of the degree of asymmetry of the circular sectors composing gold bowtie nanoantennas on the nonradiative Purcell enhancement of a nearby nanoemitter. This manuscript reviews the contributions of conformal mapping to plasmonic nanoantennas and illustrates the advantages of the elegant analytical solution provided by conformal mapping to grasp physical insights, which can serve as a springboard for new plasmonic asymmetric nanoantenna designs.
Date Issued
2020-02-04
Date Acceptance
2020-01-09
Citation
Nanophotonics, 2020, 0
ISSN
2192-8606
Publisher
De Gruyter Open
Journal / Book Title
Nanophotonics
Volume
0
Copyright Statement
© 2020 Miguel Navarro-Cía et al., published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Public License. BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
Identifier
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/nanoph.ahead-of-print/nanoph-2019-0488/nanoph-2019-0488.xml
Subjects
0205 Optical Physics
0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
1007 Nanotechnology
Publication Status
Published online
Date Publish Online
2020-02-04