Title :
A titanium nitride based metamaterial for applications in the visible
Author :
Naik, Gururaj V. ; Saha, Balaram ; Jing Liu ; Saber, Sammy M. ; Stach, Eric ; Irudayaraj, Joseph M. K. ; Sands, Timothy D. ; Shalaev, Vladimir M. ; Boltasseva, Alexandra
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
Epitaxially grown TiN/Al0.6Sc0.4N superlattice behaves as a hyperbolic metamaterial (HMM) in the visible range. Since HMMs enhance photonic-density-of-states and reduce lifetime of an emitter, we observed nine times decrease in lifetime of a dye molecule placed close to this HMM.
Keywords :
aluminium compounds; dyes; optical metamaterials; optical multilayers; photonic band gap; scandium compounds; superlattices; titanium compounds; HMM; TiN-Al0.6Sc0.4N; dye molecule; emitter lifetime; epitaxially grown superlattice; hyperbolic metamaterial; photonic-density-of-states; titanium nitride; visible range; Dielectrics; Hidden Markov models; Metamaterials; Plasmons; Superlattices; Tin;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA