A compound figure of merit for photonic applications of metal nanocomposites

Details A compound figure of merit for photonic applications of metal nanocomposites A compound figure of merit for photonic applications of metal nanocomposites

2006-09-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0609176v1

Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 141109 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

Appearing in Appl. Phys. Lett. (2006)

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2358209

Selecting nanocomposites for photonic switching applications requires optimizing their thermal, nonlinear and two-photon absorption characteristics. We simplify this step by defining a compound figure of merit (FOM_{C}) for nanocomposites of noble metals in dielectric based on criteria that limit these structures in photonic applications, i.e. thermal heating and two-photon absorption. The device independent results predict extremely large values of FOM_{C} for a specific combination of the metal and insulator dielectric constant given by \epsilon_{h}=\frac{\epsilon_{1}-\epsilon_{2}}{2}, where \epsilon_{h} is the dielectric constant of the host and \epsilon_{1} and \epsilon_{2} are the real and imaginary parts for the metal.

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