Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 79, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.161406
Keywords
gold; light diffraction; metallic thin films; polaritons; surface plasmons; transparency
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- STCU [3979]
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We study light diffraction in the periodically modulated ultrathin metal films both analytically and numerically. Without modulation, these films are almost transparent. The periodicity results in the anomalous effects, such as suppression of the transmittance accompanied by a strong enhancement of the absorptivity and specular reflectivity, due to the excitation of the surface-plasmon polaritons. These phenomena are opposite to the widely known enhanced transparency of periodically modulated optically thick metal films. Our theoretical analysis can be a starting point for the experimental investigation of these intriguing phenomena.
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