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Applied Physics Letters / Volume 97 / Issue 4 / STRUCTURAL, MECHANICAL, THERMODYNAMIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF CONDENSED MATTER

Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 041901 (2010); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3462935 (3 pages)

Percolation and polaritonic effects in periodic planar nanostructures evolving from holes to islands

Y. Peng1, T. Paudel1, W.-C. Chen1, W. J. Padilla1, Z. F. Ren1, and K. Kempa1,2

1Department of Physics, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA
2School of Physics and Telecommunication Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou College City, Guangzhou 510006, People's Republic of China

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(Received 5 May 2010; accepted 13 June 2010; published online 26 July 2010)

We study interaction of the electromagnetic radiation with a series of thin film periodic nanostructures evolving from holes to islands. We show, through model calculations, simulations, and experiments, that the responses of these structures evolve accordingly, with two topologically distinct spectral types for holes and islands. We find also, that the response at the transitional pattern is singular. We show that the corresponding effective dielectric function follows the critical behavior predicted by the percolation theory and thus the hole-to-island structural evolution in this series is a topological analog of the percolation problem, with the percolation threshold at the transitional pattern.

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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords

dielectric function, electromagnetic waves, nanostructured materials, percolation, polaritons, thin films, topology

PACS

  • 64.60.ah

    Percolation

  • 61.46.-w

    Structure of nanoscale materials

  • 71.45.Gm

    Exchange, correlation, dielectric and magnetic response functions, plasmons

  • 02.40.Pc

    General topology

  • 68.55.-a

    Thin film structure and morphology

  • 71.36.+c

    Polaritons (including photon-phonon and photon-magnon interactions)

  • 41.20.Jb

    Electromagnetic wave propagation; radiowave propagation

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3462935

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0003-6951 (print)  
1077-3118 (online)

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