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Systematic Tuning Mechanisms with Aperiodic and Disordered Plasmonic Nanostructures

Project Description:

This work focuses on systematically adjusting properties of aperiodic, disordered, or random lattices to tune the spectral responses of 2D plasmonic arrays. We investigate a broad variety of structures that we group into ordered, uncorrelated, repulsive, and attractive classes. We demonstrate that uncorrelated structures can result in smoother optical spectra as a structure becomes more disordered. However, this smoothness is limited, and can be further tuned by an order of magnitude via attractive point processes.

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NanoEnergy Lab with which this project was conducted.

NanoEnergy Lab with which this project was conducted.

Student Team Members

Ekin Gunes Ozaktas
Sreyas Chintapalli
Leshan Zhao
Serene Kamal

Course Faculty

Susanna M. Thon

Project Mentors, Sponsors, and Partners

National Science Foundation
Department of Defense
Susanna M. Thon
Eliza O’Reilly