Multi-channel composite spoof surface plasmon polaritons propagating along periodically corrugated metallic thin films

In this work, we demonstrate that composite spoof surface plasmon polaritons can be excited by coplanar waveguide, which are composed of two different spoof surface plasmon polaritons (SSPPs) modes propagating along a periodically corrugated metallic thin film simultaneously. These two SSPPs correspond to the dominant modes of one-dimensional (1D) periodical hole and groove arrays separately. We have designed and simulated a planar composite plasmonic waveguide in the microwave frequencies, and the simulation results show that the composite plasmonic waveguide can achieve multi-channel signal transmission with good propagation performance. The proposed planar composite plasmonic metamaterial can find potential applications in developing surface wave devices in integrated plasmonic circuits and multi-channel signal transmission systems in the microwave and terahertz frequencies. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.