Field enhancement effect of metal probe in evanescent field

  • Xiaogang Hong*
  • , Wendong Xu
  • , Xiaogang Li
  • , Chengqiang Zhao
  • , Xiaodong Tang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Field enhancement effect of metal probe in evanescent field, induced by using a multi-layers structure for exciting surface plasmon resonance (SPR), is analyzed numerically by utilizing two-dimensional (2D) TM-wave finite difference time-domain (FDTD) method. In this letter, we used a fundamental mode Gaussian beam to induce evanescent field, and calculated the electric intensity. The results show that compared with the nonmetal probe, the metal probe has a larger field enhancement effect, and its scattering wave induced by field enhancement has a bigger decay coefficient. The field enhancement effect should conclude that the metal probe has an important application in nanolithography.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)74-77
Number of pages4
JournalChinese Optics Letters
Volume7
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2009

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