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Gothic stained g
window of Notre-Da
http://en.wikipedia
lasmon
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Terminology: Differences
Optical Engineer:
Electrical Engineer:
- n and k
- and
- wavelength
[380 750 nm]
- frequency
[400 790 THz]
- Transmission &
Reflection coeff.
- S-parameters
Terminology: Translation
However, translation is simple:
)
n = n + i k = n (1 + i )
2
2
= n k
= 2 nk
f = c/
Overview
Plasmonic?!
Solver Choice for Optical Applications
Optical Tutorial
What is a Plasmon?
From Wikipedia: (..) Plasmons are collective oscillations of the
free electron gas density, for example, at optical frequencies
(.) Since plasmons are the quantization of classical plasma
oscillations, most of their properties can be derived directly
from Maxwell's equations.
What is a Plasmon?
http://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Plasmon
Gothic stained glass rose window of Notre-Dame de Paris. The colors were achieved by
colloids of gold nano-particles. Window was created by Jean de Chelles on the 13th century
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Channel plasmon-polariton
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3D EM Solver Overview
General purpose solver 3D-volume
Transient
Frequency
Domain
large problems
broadband
arbitrary time signals
narrow band / single frequency
small problems
periodic structures with Floquet port modes
large structures
dominated by metal
Asymptotic Solver
PBA
Staircase
HEX
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TET
Tutorial Content
Installation of Optical Toolkit
Examples
Plasmon grating
optical scatterer & antennas
After Extraction
Tutorial Example I
Efficient optical coupling into metal-insulator-metal
plasmon modes with subwavelength diffraction gratings
Michael J. Preiner, Ken T. Shimizu, Justin S. White, and Nicholas A. Melosha. APPLIED
PHYSICS LETTERS 92, 113109 2008
20 nm
14 nm Al2O3
5 nm Ag
Au
135 nm Au
Online Example
Online Example
Create Substrate
Define Brick and
align WCS as
shown
Create Grove
Blend Edges
Create 5 nm Silver
layer by performing
a transform/copy.
Do NOT yet perform
a boolean operation
Create 14 nm Al2O3
layer by performing a
transform/copy of
the silver layer. Do
NOT yet perform a
Boolean operation
Boolean Operations
Perform a Intersection
check on the Al2O3 and
Silver layer (in this
order) as well and
select trim so that
the layer structure is
created
Rename Layer
rename the
layers with
proper names
Silver Layer,
Dielectric Layer,
Gold Layer
final geometry
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Specify boundary
conditions, scan
angle and floquet
port boundaries
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Define e-field
monitor
Field Results
Define Parameter
Sweep Result
Tutorial Example II
Optical Properties of
Metallodielectric
Nanostructures Calculated
using Finite Difference Time
Domain Method
Chris Oubre, Peter Nordlander, The Journal of
Physical Chemistry B (2004), Vol. 108, pp.
17740-17747
Online Example
final geometry
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Specify Excitation
Results
For plasmonic applications the following quantities
might be of interest:
E and H Fields possible along lines and surfaces
absorption, scattering and extinction cross section.
Results
Field strength along line for the first 6 passes. Results are reasonable
close together. Zooming in at the material interface between silver
and vacuum shows a slope instead of a jump in the field
strength. To get better results, increase mesh density at observation
point by using dummy objects.
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Results
Field Results
Vacumm
50 nm Au
250 nm Flint Glass
100 nm
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Define Template
Create substrate
Define Brick
Define e-field
monitor
First Results
Start Sweep
Sweep Results
Tutorial Example IV
Bright and Dark Plasmon Excitation of a Nanorod
Model Info
In Tutorial II we showed already, how a Plasmon can be excited in a nano particle by a plane
wave. Due to symmetry reasons, only dipole and quadruple (e.g. odd) Plasmon modes can
couple to a plane wave. Those plasmons are call bright since they can observed by light
scattering. Plasmons, which will not couple to radiating field are called dark plasmons.
external field
internal field
bright dark
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bright
100 nm
0.25 nm
0.25 nm
0.25 nm
3 nm
First Step
Blend Edges
Create Gap
Move Emitter
Define Probe
Mesh Setup
Symmetry Setup
Tutorial Example V
Enhancement and Quenching of Single-Molecule
Fluorescence
Pascal Anger, Palash Bharadwaj, and Lukas Novotny; PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 96,
113002 2006
Model Info
The lifetime of an excited atomic state is not only a function of the atom but also of its
environment. In the mentioned paper, the fluorescence rate of a single molecule as a
function of its separation from a laser irradiated, spherical gold nanoparticle is investigated
for the case of weak excitation (no saturation). The fluorescence process can be separate
into to states. First the single molecule is excited by the incident radiation. The excitation
rate scales with |p E|2 where p is the intrinsic transition dipole moment of the molecule
and E is the local E Field at the position of the molecule. The E-Field and therefore the
excitation rate will be enhanced closed to the particle surface.
The decay of the excited state can be divided into a radiative (fluorescence) an non
radiative (ohmic losses/heat generation) path. The closer the nano emitter to the surface of
gold particle the larger the relative amount of energy lost to ohmic effects. As is shown in
the reference paper, there is a certain gap width, where the combined effects lead to an
overall increased fluorescence. The field enhancement is strong enough to out weight
energy losses to the absorption by the gold sphere.
Geometry Details
gap
Setup Details
To fully automate the simulation of the enhancement we use simulation flow control
mechanism of Design Studio. We will setup up two independent CST MWS Models. The first
model calculates the field enhancement in the near field of the nano particle. The second
model calculates the quantum efficiency of a nano emitter.
Both models are then uploaded into the Design Studio and linked with global parameters. A
nested parameter sweep then allows to calculate the enhancement factor in a single
simulation setup.
Online Example
move WCS
Define line
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Specify Excitation
Define e-field
monitor
Mesh Setup
Field Results
Model 2:
Save Model 1 under a different name. Delete the wires
and result templates
Define power
flow monitor
Pick gold sphere surface and create a face including the emitter and
the sphere. An offset of gap + 5 will included the emitter.
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Mesh Setup
Define two Evaluate field of face monitors. One for the Source
this gives us the power emitted from the source only. And one for
the radiation which returns the power which is radiated into free
space. Please use proper names for the monitors.
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The quantum efficiency is the ratio for the two power flow integrations
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Comparison of
published results and
CST MWS Results for a
80 nm diameter gold
sphere
published
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MWS
Run Simulation
DS will now
start a simulation for the block
with the plane wave excitation
with the a gold sphere of
radius radi
extract the field along the line
start a simulation with the
nano emitter at the position
gap with the a gold sphere
of radius radi
extract the Qeff
and finally calculates the
fluorescence enhancement
First DS Results
Final Results
MWS/DS Results
Published Results