Refractive index of micro/nano structured dielectric materials

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Flory ◽  
L. Escoubas ◽  
J. J. Simon ◽  
P. Torchio ◽  
T. Mazingue ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Refractive Index ◽  
Dielectric Materials

scholarly journals Raman scattering in high-refractive-index nanostructures

Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Raza ◽  
Anders Kristensen
Keyword(s):  
Raman Spectroscopy ◽  
Refractive Index ◽  
Raman Scattering ◽  
Bound States ◽  
Stimulated Raman Scattering ◽  
Dielectric Materials ◽  
High Refractive Index ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy ◽  
Raman Enhancement ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe advent of resonant dielectric nanomaterials has provided a new path for concentrating and manipulating light on the nanoscale. Such high-refractive-index materials support a diverse set of low-loss optical resonances, including Mie resonances, anapole states, and bound states in the continuum. Through these resonances, high-refractive-index materials can be used to engineer the optical near field, both inside and outside the nanostructures, which opens up new opportunities for Raman spectroscopy. In this review, we discuss the impact of high-refractive-index nano-optics on Raman spectroscopy. In particular, we consider the intrinsic Raman enhancement produced by different dielectric resonances and their theoretical description. Using the optical reciprocity theorem, we derive an expression which links the Raman enhancement to the enhancement of the stored electric energy. We also address recent results on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy based on high-refractive-index dielectric materials along with applications in stimulated Raman scattering and nanothermometry. Finally, we discuss the potential of Raman spectroscopy as a tool for detecting the optical near-fields produced by dielectric resonances, complementing reflection and transmission measurements.

scholarly journals Equivalence between positive and negative refractive index materials in electrostatic cloaks

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingcai Li ◽  
Juan Wang ◽  
Jinghong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Refractive Index ◽  
Negative Refraction ◽  
Negative Refractive Index ◽  
Analytical Formula ◽  
Refraction Index ◽  
Dielectric Materials ◽  
Static Field ◽  
Colloid Science ◽  
Negative Refraction Index ◽  
Equivalence Relationship

AbstractWe investigate, both theoretically and numerically, the equivalence relationship between the positive and negative refraction index dielectric materials in electrostatic invisibility cloak. We have derived an analytical formula that enables fast calculate the corresponding positive dielectric constant from the negative refraction index material. The numerical results show that the negative refraction index material can be replaced by the positive refractive index materials in the static field cloak. This offers some new viewpoints for designing new sensing systems and devices in physics, colloid science, and engineering applications.

scholarly journals Linear and nonlinear optical properties of hybrid metallic–dielectric plasmonic nanoantennas

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 111-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Hentschel ◽  
Bernd Metzger ◽  
Bastian Knabe ◽  
Karsten Buse ◽  
Harald Giessen
Keyword(s):  
Refractive Index ◽  
Optical Properties ◽  
Nonlinear Optical ◽  
Nonlinear Response ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Dielectric Materials ◽  
Nonlinear Optical Properties ◽  
Linear Optical Properties ◽  
Linear And Nonlinear ◽  
Linear Optical

We study the linear and nonlinear optical properties of hybrid metallic–dielectric plasmonic gap nanoantennas. Using a two-step-aligned electron beam lithography process, we demonstrate the ability to selectively and reproducibly fill the gap region of nanoantennas with dielectric nanoparticles made of lithium niobate (LiNbO3) with high efficiency. The linear optical properties of the antennas are modified due to the large refractive index of the material. This leads to a change in the coupling strength as well as an increase of the effective refractive index of the surrounding. The combination of these two effects causes a red- or blue-shift of the plasmonic modes, respectively. We find that the nonlinear optical properties of the combined system are only modified in the range of one order of magnitude. The observed changes in our experiments in the nonlinear emission can be traced to the changed dielectric environment and thus the modified linear optical properties. The intrinsic nonlinearity of the dielectric used is in fact small when compared to the nonlinearity of the metallic part of the hybrid antennas. Thus, the nonlinear signals generated by the antenna itself are dominant in our experiments. We demonstrate that the well-known nonlinear response of bulk dielectric materials cannot always straightforwardly be used to boost the nonlinear response of nanoscale antenna systems. Our results significantly deepen the understanding of these interesting hybrid systems and offer important guidelines for the design of nanoscale, nonlinear light sources.

scholarly journals Cold mirror based on High-Low-High refractive index dielectric materials

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vadim Elyutin ◽  
◽  
Muhammad A. Butt ◽  
Svetlana N. Khonina ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Refractive Index ◽  
Dielectric Materials ◽  
High Refractive Index

scholarly journals Enhancing the aesthetic aspect of the solar systems used as facades for building by designing multi-layer optical coatings

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Zainab I. AL-Assadi ◽  
Fawzia Irhayyim AL-Assadi
Keyword(s):  
Refractive Index ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Dielectric Materials ◽  
Optical Coatings ◽  
Solar Systems ◽  
Building Facades ◽  
Aesthetic Aspect ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Effective Integration

The design of zero-energy buildings can be depending on the effective integration of solar energy systems with building envelopes, where these systems save heat and electricity as well as enhance the aesthetic aspect of the facades. In this paper, the aspects related to the effective integration of buildings with solar energy systems (solar cells and collectors) will be discussed, as well as enhancing the aesthetic aspect of the facades, and since solar energy systems are visible to everyone, their design must adapt to the building structure and the surrounding environment. Solar energy system designers, architects, physicists and other contributors to building energy envelopes must consider the comprehensive concept of it, where buildings are part of the human and social environment and in close relationship with the natural environment, through the use of thin films technology through the design of multi-layers colored optical coatings covering solar panels for building facades. Accordingly, the energy sector should be seen as an area of aesthetic creativity. Two dielectric materials were used, the first is ThF4 with a high refractive index (1.5143) and the second is LiF with a low refractive index (1.393) and for several odd layers, starting from 3 layers and up to 21 layers and for a thicknesses of a quarter wavelength. The design Air/L/H/Glass was applied by the Mat Lab program for the seven colors of the spectrum, So, the aim of this research is determined in designing colored optical coatings for solar systems that enhance the aesthetic aspect of building facades, as well as generating thermal and electrical energy needed to operate the buildings and to find out which color has the best visible reflectivity and solar transmittance better than the rest of the spectrum, all the results exhibit that yellow color has the higher visible reflectivity and higher merit factor, so it is consider the most efficient color for coloring the solar systems than the rest of colors spectrum.

Refractive-Index Sensor Based on Metal-Insulator-Metal Waveguides

2015 ◽  
Vol 742 ◽  
pp. 46-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ting Ting Tang ◽  
Li Luo
Keyword(s):  
Refractive Index ◽  
Refractive Index Change ◽  
Dielectric Materials ◽  
Refractive Index Sensor ◽  
Total Size ◽  
Metal Insulator ◽  
Coupled Mode ◽  
Metal Insulator Metal ◽  
Structure Of Metal ◽  
Propagation Properties

We propose a refractive sensor based on directional coupling between two metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguides to measure the refractive index change of the insulator, which is designed to be with a structure of metal-insulator-metal-insulator-metal (MIMIM) in which surface plasmon waves (SPW) are excited. The propagation properties are analyzed by coupled mode theory, and the expressions about the coupling coefficient, coupling length and sensitivity are derived. The sensing properties based on simulation results are also discussed. Compared with a dielectric waveguide, the total size of our sensor with MIMIM waveguide is about one tenth that with dielectric materials, while the sensitivity is improved ten times larger than the former.

scholarly journals A Theoretical Study for Designing Optical Multilayer Films Using NdF3/ ThF4

2021 ◽  
pp. 3877-3887
Author(s):  
Zainab I. Al-Assadi
Keyword(s):  
Refractive Index ◽  
Solar System ◽  
Visible Region ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Dielectric Materials ◽  
High Refractive Index ◽  
Efficient Design ◽  
Solar Systems ◽  
Merit Factor ◽  
Quarter Wave

An idea of a colored glaze is presented in this study to hide and dispose all the obstacles of using solar systems as facades integrated with buildings. This aim is achieved  by designing multilayer optical interference filters by using Mat lab program . Appropriate dielectric materials, namely NdF3 of high refractive index (nH =1.6)  and ThF4 of low refractive index (nL =1.5143) were employed. Quarter wave thicknesses of high (H) and low (L) refractive index were deposited on a microscopic slide substrate with n=1.513 and 550 nm design wavelength (l°). Two optical models were designed, which are Air//HL//glass and Air//LH//glass,  for even numbers of layers (2-32 layers). The challenge in this study is to find the most efficient design which has lower solar reflectance (Rsol.) and higher solar transmittance (Tsol.) to raise the efficiency of the solar systems  and, in parallel, obtain the colored reflection to achieve the esthetic appearance of the buildings integrated with the solar system facades. The Tsol. value was high (94-95 %), whereas the Rsol. was very low  (4-5 %). Hence, the  efficiency of the solar system was increased. The two optical models exhibited green color reflectance in the visible region. The first design, i.e. Air/HL/glass, showed higher values of  Rvis.  and the merit factor (M) than the second model, resulting in a higher potential of coloration. The first design requires fewer materials and layers, thus, it is more cost-effective as compared to the second one.

scholarly journals Rabi-like splitting and refractive index sensing with hybrid Tamm plasmon-cavity modes

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuvendu Jena ◽  
Raj Bahadur Tokas ◽  
Sudhakar Thakur ◽  
Dinesh V Udupa
Keyword(s):  
Refractive Index ◽  
Dielectric Materials ◽  
Hybrid Structure ◽  
Lower Hybrid ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Hybrid Mode ◽  
Refractive Index Sensing ◽  
Spacer Layer ◽  
Splitting Energy ◽  
Cavity Thickness

Abstract Rabi-like splitting and self-referenced refractive index sensing in hybrid plasmonic-1D photonic crystal structures have been theoretically demonstrated. The coupling between Tamm plasmon and cavity photon modes are tuned by incorporating a low refractive index spacer layer adjacent to the metallic layer to form their hybrid modes. Anticrossing of the modes observed at different values of spacer layer thickness validates the strong coupling between the two modes and causes Rabi-like splitting with different splitting energy. The modes coupling has been supported by coupled mode theory. Rabi-like splitting energy decreases with increasing number of periods (N) and refractive index contrast (η) of two dielectric materials used to make the 1D photonic crystals, and the observed variation is explained by an analytical model. Angular and polarization dependency of the hybrid modes shows that the polarization splitting of the lower hybrid mode is much stronger than that of the upper hybrid mode. On further investigation, it is seen that one of the hybrid modes remains unchanged while other mode undergoes significant change with varying the cavity medium. This nature of the hybrid modes has been utilized for designing self-referenced refractive index sensors for sensing different analytes. For η=1.333 and N=10 in a hybrid structure, the sensitivity increases from 51 nm/RIU to 201 nm/RIU with increasing cavity thickness from 170 nm to 892 nm. For the fixed cavity thickness of 892 nm, the sensitivity increases from 201 nm/RIU to 259 nm/RIU by increasing η from 1.333 to 1.605. The sensing parameters such as detection accuracy, quality factor, and figure of merit for two different hybrid structures ([η=1.333, N=10] and [η=1.605, N=6]) have been evaluated and compared. The value of resonant reflectivity of one of the hybrid modes changes considerably with varying analyte medium which can be used for refractive index sensing.

scholarly journals The Quest for Low Loss High Refractive Index Dielectric Materials for UV Photonic Applications

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 2065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yael Gutiérrez ◽  
Dolores Ortiz ◽  
José Saiz ◽  
Francisco González ◽  
Pablo Albella ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Refractive Index ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Field Enhancement ◽  
Dielectric Materials ◽  
High Refractive Index ◽  
Heat Radiation ◽  
Aluminum Phosphide ◽  
Spectral Ranges

Nanostructured High Refractive Index (HRI) dielectric materials, when acting as nanoantennas or metasurfaces in the near-infrared (NIR) and visible (VIS) spectral ranges, can interact with light and show interesting scattering directionality properties. Also, HRI dielectric materials with low absorption in these spectral ranges show very low heat radiation when illuminated. Up to now, most of the studies of these kind of materials have been explored in the VIS-NIR. However, to the best of our knowledge, these properties have not been extended to the ultraviolet (UV), where their application in fields like photocatalysis, biosensing, surface-enhanced spectroscopies or light guiding and trapping can be of extraordinary relevance. Here, we present a detailed numerical study of the directional scattering properties, near-field enhancement and heat generation of several materials that can be good candidates for those applications in the UV. These materials include aluminum phosphide, aluminum arsenide, aluminum nitride, diamond, cerium dioxide and titanium dioxide. In this study, we compare their performance when forming either isolated nanoparticles or dimers to build either nanoantennas or unit cells for more complex metasurfaces.

scholarly journals design of multiband reflectors adapting the concept of stack

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-259
Author(s):  
Baghdad Science Journal
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Refractive Index ◽  
Spectral Region ◽  
Dielectric Materials ◽  
High Reflectivity ◽  
Multilayer Dielectric

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