1. Temperature-induced hysteresis in amplification and attenuation of surface-plasmon-polariton waves
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Tom G Mackay, Tran Vinh Son, Alain Haché, and Akhlesh Lakhtakia
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thermal hysteresis ,vanadium multioxide ,Bruggeman homogenization formalism ,surface-plasmon-polariton waves ,Science ,Physics ,QC1-999 - Abstract
The propagation of surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves at the planar interface of a metal and a dielectric material was investigated for a dielectric material with strongly temperature-dependent constitutive properties. The metal was silver and the dielectric material was vanadium multioxide impregnated with a combination of active dyes. Depending upon the volume fraction of vanadium multioxide, either attenuation or amplification of the SPP waves may be achieved; the degree of attenuation or amplification is strongly dependent on both the temperature and whether the temperature is increasing or decreasing. At intermediate volume fractions of vanadium multioxide, for a fixed temperature, a SPP wave may experience attenuation if the temperature is increasing but experience amplification if the temperature is decreasing.
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- 2023
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