Abstract
AbstractResonant optical antennas supporting plasmon polaritons (SPPs)—collective excitations of electrons coupled to electromagnetic fields in a medium—are relevant to sensing, photovoltaics, and light‐emitting devices, among others. Due to the SPP dispersion, a conventional antenna of fixed geometry, exhibiting a narrow SPP resonance, cannot simultaneously operate in two different spectral bands. In contrast, here it is demonstrated that in metallic disks, separated by a nanometric spacer, the hybridized antibonding SPP mode stays in the visible range, while the bonding one can be pushed down to the mid‐infrared range. Such an SPP dimer can sense two materials of nanoscale volumes, whose fingerprint central frequencies differ by a factor of 5. Additionally, the mid‐infrared SPP resonance can be tuned by employing a phase‐change material (VO2) as a spacer. The dielectric constant of the phase‐change material is controlled by heating the material at the frequency of the antibonding optical mode. These findings open the door to a new class of optoelectronic devices able to operate in significantly different frequency ranges in the linear regime, and with the same polarization of the illuminating wave.
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