Electromagnetic waveguiding in metallic plasmonic structures using FDTD

Author

Ahmed, Iftikhar ; Png, Ching Eng ; Li, Erping ; Lee, H.P.

Author_Institution

Electromagn. Div., Inst. of High Performance Comput., Singapore

fYear

2007

fDate

2-5 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

494

Lastpage

497

Abstract

This paper presents the investigations of wave propagation characteristics of silver (Ag) nanowire used for electromagnetic (EM) waveguiding. The wave propagation is simulated by the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method and incorporates the Drude model. A number of nano-scale structures are studied, and the simulation results illustrate that these structures guide the optical signal to the desired positions and hence may be used for future nanophotonics applications.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave propagation; finite difference time-domain analysis; nanostructured materials; nanowires; plasmons; silver; waveguides; Ag; Drude model; FDTD; electromagnetic waveguiding; finite difference time domain method; metallic plasmonic structures; nano-scale structures; nanowire; optical signal; wave propagation characteristics; Computational modeling; Electromagnetic propagation; Electromagnetic scattering; Electromagnetic waveguides; Finite difference methods; Nanophotonics; Optical propagation; Plasmons; Silver; Time domain analysis; FDTD; nanophotonics; nanowire; plasmonics; waveguide;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nanotechnology, 2007. IEEE-NANO 2007. 7th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0607-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0608-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NANO.2007.4601239

Filename

4601239