Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 101, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.075434
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Funding
- Lee Family Scholarship
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Centre for Doctoral Training on Theory and Simulation of Materials at Imperial College London - EPSRC [EP/L015579/1]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia and Instituto de Telecomunicacoes [CEECIND/03866/2017, UID/EEA/50008/2019]
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Geometrical singularities in plasmonic metasurfaces were recently proposed for the enhancement of light-matter interactions, owing to their broadband light-harvesting properties and extreme plasmon confinement. However, the large plasmon momenta thus achieved lead to failure of local descriptions of the optical response of metals. Here we study a class of metasurfaces consisting of a periodic metal slab with a smooth modulation of its thickness. When the thinnest part shrinks, the two surfaces almost touch, forming a near-singular point. Using transformation optics, we show analytically how nonlocal effects, such as a blueshift of the resonance peaks and a reduced density of states, become important and cannot be ignored in this singular regime. The method developed in this paper is very general and can be used to model a variety of metasurfaces, providing valuable insight in the current context of ultrathin plasmonic structures.
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