Abstract
We demonstrate a concept of optical data storage through plasmonic resonances of metallic nanostructures. Metallic nanostructures exhibit strong variations in their reflectance and/or transmittance spectra due to surface plasmon polariton resonances. We study the variations in spectra through 50×50 arrays of repeated unit cells covering a total area of ∼50×50 μ m2. Each cell contains ten different nanofeatures, such as an ellipse, a ring, a circle, a triangle, a square, etc. The size of each unit-cell is 500×500 nm2, and the periodicity is 1.0 μm. The variations in spectra are obvious enough to be distinguished and then retrieved.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 171106 |
Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
Volume | 98 |
Issue number | 17 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2011 Apr 25 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)