Acoustic plasmonics of Au grating/Bi2Se3 thin film/sapphirehybrid structures

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/ab8a3c

Abstract The surface plasmon polaritons of the topological insulator Bi₂Se₃ can be excited by using etched grating or grave structures to compensate the wave vector mismatch of the incident photon and plasmon. Here, we demonstrate novel gold grating/Bi₂Se₃ thin film/sapphire hybrid structures, which allow the excitation of surface plasmon polaritons propagating through nondestructive Bi₂Se₃ thin film with the help of gold diffractive gratings. Utilizing periodic Au surface structures, the momentum can be matched and the normal-incidence infrared reflectance spectra exhibit pronounced dips. When the width of the gold grating W (with a periodicity 2W) increases from 400 nm to 1500 nm, the resonant frequencies are tuned from about 7000 cm^-1 to 2500 cm^-1. In contrast to the expected √q dispersion for both massive and massless fermions, where q～π/W is the wave vector, we observe a sound-like linear dispersion even at room temperature. This surface plasmon polaritons with linear dispersion are attributed to the unique noninvasive fabrication method and high mobility of topological surface electrons. This novel structure provides a promising application of Dirac plasmonics.

Keywords: surface plasmon polaritons topological insulator infrared optoelectronics nanophotonics

Received: 11 February 2020
Revised: 23 March 2020
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PACS:	78.68.+m	(Optical properties of surfaces)
	71.35.Cc	(Intrinsic properties of excitons; optical absorption spectra)
	71.36.+c	(Polaritons (including photon-phonon and photon-magnon interactions))
	78.66.-w	(Optical properties of specific thin films)

Fund: Project supported by Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung.

Corresponding Authors: Yuan Yan
E-mail: yuan.yan@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de

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Weiwu Li(李伟武), Konstantin Riegel, Chuanpu Liu(刘传普), Alexey Taskin, Yoichi Ando, Zhimin Liao(廖志敏), Martin Dressel, Yuan Yan(严缘) Acoustic plasmonics of Au grating/Bi₂Se₃ thin film/sapphirehybrid structures 2020 Chin. Phys. B 29 067801

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