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Hybrid Tamm-cavity modes in photonic crystal with resonant nanocomposite defect layer
S.Ya. Vetrov12, A.Yu. Avdeeva2, M.V. Pyatnov2I.V. Timofeev2,1 1 Siberian Federal University, 660041, Russia, Krasnoyarsk, pr. Svobodny 79, 2 Kirensky Institute of Physics, Federal Research Center KSC SB RAS, 660036, Russia, Krasnoyarsk, Akademgorodok 50/38
Abstract
Hybrid optical modes in a one-dimensional photonic crystal with a resonant nanocomposite defect bounded by a metallic layer are studied. The nanocomposite consists of spherical metallic constituents, that are distributed in a dielectric matrix. Transmittance, reflectance, and absorbance spectra of this structure, which is shined by light with normal incidence, are calculated. The possibility of control of the hybrid modes spectral characteristics by changing the thickness of the layer adjacent to the metal, the number of layers, and the nanocomposite filling factor is shown.
Keywords: photonic crystals, nanocomposite, microcavities, localized modes.
Citation: Vetrov SYa, Avdeeva AYu, Pyatnov MV, Timofeev IV. Hybrid Tamm-cavity modes in photonic crystal with resonant nanocomposite defect layer. Computer Optics 2020; 44(3): 319324. DOI: 10.18287/2412-6179-CO-637.
Acknowledgements: This research was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Government of Krasnoyarsk Territory, Krasnoyarsk Region Science and Technology Support Fund to the research Project No 18-42-243025.
Introduction
A Tamm plasmon (TP) is a localized surface mode that can be excited even under normal incidence of light of any polarization [1-4]. Such a mode is supported by the interface between a metallic layer and a photonic band-gap material, i. e., a photonic crystal (PC). The TP can be experimentally observed as a narrow peak in the reflectance or transmittance spectrum of a sample. In the localized modes of this type, the field decays exponentially inside both media with an increase in the distance from the interface. The decay deep in the metallic layer is caused by the negative permittivity of a metal and the decay deep in the photonic band-gap material, by the Bragg reflection.
Various ways of exciting the hybrid modes formed by the TP and resonances of different nature (surface plas-mons, exciton modes, etc.) have been developed [5-11]. The interest in these interactions is due to the potential of their application in sensors [12, 13], light-emitting devices [14, 15], photodiodes [16], and organic solar cells [17]. The variant of hybridization of the TP and cavity modes (CMs) is the most widespread. In this case, the electromagnetic field energy is localized simultaneously on a structural defect and a PC/metallic film interface. The change in the parameters of a structure, including the refractive index or thickness of the layer adjacent to the metal, leads to the change in the bonding value, which is followed by the reconstruction of the spectrum [18]. The hybridization makes it possible to enhance the field in a microcavity and reduce the absorption in metallic layers embedded in a structure [19].
New possibilities for forming hybrid modes (HMs) and controlling the spectral properties of a PC are opened
by using metal-dielectric nanocomposites (NCs) with the resonant dispersion [20-26]. The position and width of the NC resonance region lying within the visible spectral range depends on the permittivities of initial materials and concentration, size, and shape of nanoparticles. The effective characteristics of an NC consisting of metallic nano-particles dispersed in a dielectric matrix are formed due to the plasmon resonance of nanoparticles and, in the optical range, can take unique values atypical of natural materials; for instance, the real part of the effective refractive index can be much more than unity, similar to unity, or less than unity and take a zero value as well [27-29].
The aim of this study is to investigate the hybrid optical modes caused by the bonding between the cavity modes of a PC with a resonant NC defect and the optical TP at the interface between a PC and a metallic film. We show that the Tamm and cavity components of the hybrid state manifest themselves in the transmittance spectrum as repulsing resonances. We examine the dependence of the repulsion of the hybrid state components in the transmittance spectrum on the thickness of the PC layer adjacent to the metallic film. It is established that the position of the hybrid modes in the PC band gap is sensitive to the change in the nanoparticle concentration in an NC.
1. System description and methods for determing the transmittance
The model to investigate is a one-dimensional PC bounded by a 50-nm-thick silver film from its one side (fig. 1). The materials of alternating PC layers are zirconium dioxide ZrO2 with a permittivity of ea = 4.16 and silicon dioxide SiO2 with a permittivity of &b = 2.10; the layer thicknesses were 40 and 90 nm, respectively. The PC consists of N = 23 layers; the center SiO2 layer is replaced
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by an NC defect layer. The thickness of the ZrO2 layer adjacent to the metallic film is different from 40 nm and specified by parameter d. The refractive index of the environment was assumed to be unity (air). The defect is a 160-nm-thick metal-dielectric NC layer consisting of nanoballs dispersed in transparent optical glass with a permittivity of Sd = 2.56. The choice of ZrO2 and SiO2 layers is explained by availability of these materials. Moreover, sufficiently large contrast of the refractive indices of such layers ensures formation of a wide band gap in PC as shown in [30] both experimentally and theoretically.
□ Zr02
As
Incident light
Fig. 1. Schematic of the structure
The effective permittivity [21] Smix of the NC layer is determined from the Maxwell Garnett formula widely used to study matrix media with a small volume fraction of isolated inclusions dispersed in a matrix material [22]:
1 +
f
(1 - f )/3 + sdj(em -e, )
(1)
here, f is the filling factor (the volume fraction of nano-particles in the matrix), Sm is the permittivity of the nano-particle metal, and g is the radiation frequency. The parameter Sm was specified in the form of the Drude approximation
em _ e0
©(g)- iy)
(2)
where So = 5 is the ionic core contribution, hGp = 9 eV is the plasma frequency and hy = 0.02 eV is the reciprocal relaxation time. These parameters are typical of silver [31]. The predictions of the effective Maxwell Garnett media model are valid for a moderate fraction of inclusions with a filling factor of f<< 1. This model suggests the quasi-static approximation with the condition of a small size of nanoparticles and distance between them as compared with the optical wavelength in a medium.
Figure 2 shows dispersion dependence of the nano-composite permittivity for two different filling factors: f= 0.01, 0.06. It can be seen that the frequency corresponding to the resonance in the defect layer shifts towards longer wavelengths with an increase in the nanoball concentration. Note that the resonant curve half-width s''mix is affected very little, whereas the s'mix curve is essentially
modified and the range of frequencies increases for which the NC is similar to metal when s'mix < 0.
60 40
20 0 -20
F' • F" • t-mix* t-mix ! i \
. 1 1 ( Wavelength ^ {nm)
(b) 400 450 500
Fig. 2. Imaginary £ mix (dashed curve) and real £ mix (solid curve) parts of the effective permittivity £mix versus wavelength.
The filling factors f= 0.01 (a) and f = 0.06 (b)
The transmission of a plane light wave polarized along the x axis and propagating in the z direction was calculated by the transfer matrix method [32]. The light-field variation during passage through each structural layer is determined using the second-order transfer matrix and the transfer matrix of the entire structure, which relates the amplitudes of the input and output waves, is a product of such 2 x 2 matrices:
M — T01T02mmmTN-1,NTNS ,
where an individual transfer matrix has the form
i i -i . i \ -ian y„ /1 i \ ian yn \
T -1
In-M - 2
v
(1 + h ) e
(1 - h)e-ia"yn
fan y n
(1 - h ) e
(1 + h )eiany -
(3)
(4)
J
here, h - ^Jen / en-1 is the permittivity of the n layer; an - (g /c)yje(n) is the frequency of the wave; c is the
speed of light; yn = zn-z—x; n = 1, 2, ..., N; z- is the coordinate of the bound between the n and n+1 layers; and
yn+1 = 0.
The transfer matrix for the wave with orthogonal polarization is obtained using equation (4) by changing h to
c
The transmittance, reflectance, and absorbance are
g
T(ffl) = —L-, R(ffl) =
\aAIu^ ^ ' |Mn|2' (5)
A (ra) = 1 - T (ra) - R(ra), here Mu and M2l - are the elements of the matrix M .
2. Results and discussion
The parameters of the PC and metal-dielectric defect layer were chosen such that the defect mode frequency coincided with the NC resonant frequency. In the absence of inclusions f= 0), a peak corresponding to the defect mode arises in the PC transmittance spectrum (see the inset in fig. 3a). At f= 0.01, the CM is split and two peaks at wavelengths of X = 419.5 and 453 nm form (dashed line in fig. 3).
Transmittance 1-0
1.0 0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
Ж--.....
(a)
400
450
Reflectance 1.0
500
Wavelength (nm)
(c)
400
450
500
Wavelength (nm) Fig. 3. (a) Transmittance, (b) reflectance, and (c) absorbance spectra. The line of dots corresponds to the structure without a metallic layer; the dotted line, to the structure without microcavity; and the solid line, to the entire structure. d = 19 nm and f = 0.01, N = 23. Inset: transmittance spectrum of the PC without metallic layer at f = 0
With an increase in the f value, the splitting grows. The splitting is caused by the change in the Fabry-Perot
resonance condition due to the dispersion of the NC permittivity emix. The transmission spectrum contains also a peak at a wavelength of 440 nm. The occurrence of this peak is consistent with the predictions following from the Fabry - Perot resonance condition [24]. It should be noted that with an increase in the f value, this peak slightly shifts to the long-wavelength region (7 nm at f = 0.1) with increasing absorption. This peak does not arise in the transmittance spectrum due to the high absorption.
In a PC bounded by a metallic film, another resonance type-the Tamm plasmon - can be excited at the interface. Thus, in the structure under study (fig. 1), the localized modes of two types can be excited: the TP and defect (cavity) modes. The change in the PC parameters can lead to the interaction between localized modes and formation of hybrid Tamm cavity modes.
The TP position is conventionally tuned by varying the Bragg reflector layer adjacent to the metallic layer. At a first ZrO2 layer thickness of d = 19 nm, the spectrally pure TP (line of dots in fig. 3) and the short-wavelength cavity mode manifest themselves at the same wavelength X = 419.5 nm. The interaction between the resonances leads to the formation of two peaks at wavelengths of 413.5 and 425.5 nm (the black solid line in fig. 3). The splitting can be increased via increasing the spatial overlap of the modes. To do this, it is necessary to decrease the number of PC layers between the silver film and defect layer. In addition, the splitting increases with an increase in the filling factor f [24].
Figure 4 shows the squared electric-field profiles of the cavity modes in the absence of a metallic layer (fig. 4a), TP in the absence of a microcavity (fig. 4b), and the hybrid Tamm cavity modes (fig. 5). For the CM, the electromagnetic field has its maximum right at the defect layer center. The TP field is localized at the metallic field. The field of the HM is localized with the maxima at the metal / PC interface and in the defect layer.
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Fig. 4. Spatial distribution of the squared electric field strength for the CM (a), TP (b); d = 19 nm and f= 0.01
2
The change in the thickness d of the first layer leads to the change in the phase of the PC reflectance. Since the condition of phase matching between the reflectances from the metallic and Bragg mirrors must be met, the TP position changes. The position of the CM is almost insensitive to an increase in the thickness d, while the pure TP mode shifts and passes through the entire PC band gap.
Figure 6 shows the reflectance spectrum of the investigated structure at different d values for NC filling factors of f= 0.01 and f= 0.06. As the d value increases from 0 to 50 nm, the sequential hybridization occurs with all the cavity modes. This interaction manifests itself as a peak quasi-crossing in the transmittance or reflectance spectrum. At f= 0.01, three quasi-crossings are observed. At f= 0.06, there are four quasi-crossings and the peaks are observed at wavelengths of X = 396 and 478 nm, as well as 444 and 457 nm. The additional peak at a wavelength of 457 nm in the spectrum occurs due to the NC permittivity dispersion, which depends on the f value.
The change in the number of PC periods leads to the change in the overlap of electromagnetic fields of the localized modes (fig. 7).
Reflectance
\E\2 20
10
"k=413.5 nm
mMJM
(b) z
Fig. 5. Spatial distribution of the squared electric field strength for hybrid Tamm cavity modes of 413.5 nm (a) and 425.5 nm (b); d = 19 nm and f = 0.01, N = 23
Reflectance
Fig. 6. Reflectance spectrum of the structure (fig. 1) N = 23 vs thickness d of the ZrO2 layer adjacent to the 50-nm-thick metallic film at f = 0.01 (a) and f = 0.06 (b). White dashed lines show the positions of resonance-split NC cavity modes; X = 419.5 and 453 nm (a);
X = 396 and 478 nm (b)
Reflectance
500
Wavelength (nm)
Fig. 7. Dependence of the reflectance spectrum of the structure (fig. 1) on the numbers N of PC layers. In all the cases, the defect is localized at the center of the structure; d = 19 nm, f= 0.01
A decrease in the distance between the metallic layer and defect leads to an increase in the peak splitting. With an increase in the number of PC periods, the CM and TP peak wavelengths degenerate. With an increase in the filling factor f and other parameters unchanged, the reflectance spectrum (fig. 7) changes significantly. The more splitting increases, the more degree of mode hybridization decreases.
Conclusions
Thus, we demonstrated the existence of hybrid optical modes caused by the bonding between the cavity modes of the Bragg reflector with a nanocomposite defect and the Tamm plasmon excited at the interface between a PC and a thin metallic film. We showed the possibility for controlling the spectral properties via changing the thickness of a layer adjacent to the metal and a number of PC layers, which can be used to create a tunable filter on the
basis of the proposed structure. The spectral properties can be additionally governed by changing the nanocomposite filling factor. The sensitivity of the position of split peaks in the transmittance spectrum to the parameters of the structure can be used to govern light in devices based on such structures.
Acknowledgements
This research was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Government of Krasnoyarsk Territory, Krasnoyarsk Region Science and Technology Support Fund to the research Project No 18-42-243025.
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Authors' information
Stepan Yakovlevich Vetrov (b. 1946), Doctor of Physico-Mathematical sciences, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Wave Phenomena department of Siberian Federal University, Senior Researcher in Laboratory of Molecular Spectroscopy, Kirensky Institute of Physics, Federal Research Center KSC SB RAS. Research interests: photonic crystals, liquid crystals, nanophotonics. E-mail: S.Vetrov@inbox.ru .
Anastasia Yurievna Avdeeva (b. 1986), Junior Researcher in Laboratory for Photonics of Molecular Systems, Kirensky Institute of Physics, Federal Research Center KSC SB RAS. Research interests: photonic crystals, liquid crystals, nanocomposites. E-mail: avdeeva.anastasia@gmail.com .
Maxim Vladimirovich Pyatnov (b. 1992), PhD in Physico-mathematical sciences, Researcher in Laboratory for Photonics of Molecular Systems, Kirensky Institute of Physics, Federal Research Center KSC SB RAS, Assistant Professor of Experimental Physics and Innovation Technologies department of Siberian Federal University. Research interests: photonic crystals and liquid crystals. E-mail: MaksPyatnov@yandex.ru .
Ivan Vladimirovich Timofeev (b. 1979), Doctor of Physico-Mathematical sciences, Head of Laboratory for Photonics of Molecular Systems, Kirensky Institute of Physics, Federal Research Center KSC SB RAS, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Wave Phenomena department of Siberian Federal University. Research interests: photonic crystals, soft matter, nano- and topological photonics. E-mail: tiv@iph.krasn.ru .
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