Titanium nitride as a plasmonic material for visible and near-infrared wavelengths

The search for alternative plasmonic materials with improved optical properties, easier fabrication and integration capabilities over those of the traditional materials such as silver and gold could ultimately lead to real-life applications for plasmonics and metamaterials. In this work, we show tha...

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Published in:Optical materials express 2012-04, Vol.2 (4), p.478-489
Main Authors: Naik, Gururaj V., Schroeder, Jeremy L., Ni, Xingjie, Kildishev, Alexander V., Sands, Timothy D., Boltasseva, Alexandra
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Gold
Metamaterials
Optical properties
Plasmonics
Silver
Thin films
Titanium nitride
Wavelengths
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Summary:The search for alternative plasmonic materials with improved optical properties, easier fabrication and integration capabilities over those of the traditional materials such as silver and gold could ultimately lead to real-life applications for plasmonics and metamaterials. In this work, we show that titanium nitride could perform as an alternative plasmonic material in the visible and near-infrared regions. We demonstrate the excitation of surface-plasmon-polaritons on titanium nitride thin films and discuss the performance of various plasmonic and metamaterial structures with titanium nitride as the plasmonic component. We also show that titanium nitride could provide performance that is comparable to that of gold for plasmonic applications and can significantly outperform gold and silver for transformation-optics and some metamaterial applications in the visible and near-infrared regions.
ISSN:2159-3930
2159-3930
DOI:10.1364/OME.2.000478