A plasmonic switch using metal-insulator transition in VO2

作者：Dwivedi Ram Prakash^*; Sharma Divya; Lee Chongmu; Vaidya Tanvi

来源：Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, 2016, 18(3-4): 207-212.

• Optoelectronics
• Plasmonics
• VO2

We report on the design of a plasmonic switch using phase transition phenomena of a metal-dielectric-metal waveguide. The proposed switch uses vanadium di-oxide material, which undergoes phase transition from semiconducting to metallic phase around at 68 degrees C. The on and the off states of the switch correspond to the absence and presence of voltage applied to this material. The function of this device numerically studied using finite element method (FEM) simulation at the wavelength of 1.55 mu m. We obtained a modulation depth of 40 dB for a device length, thickness and width of 0.50 mu m, 0.1 pm and 0.3 mu m, respectively. We show that how the dielectric films thickness, length, width and the wavelength of the incident light affect the modulation depth. The supporting modes and the relative losses for the given structure are also studied.

• 出版日期2016-4