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Transparent Nanoprobes in Integrated Plasmonic Circuits Based on Plasmonic Cloaking

Dimitrios C. Zografopoulos*

Konstantinos P. Prokopidis

  • Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per la Microelettronica e Microsistemi, Via del fosso del cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki GR-54124, Greece

  • *Corresponding author. dimitrios.zografopoulos@artov.imm.cnr.it
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Phys. Rev. Applied 2, 064009 – Published 23 December, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.2.064009

Abstract

Cloaking of nanoscopic objects via the scattering-cancellation technique is theoretically demonstrated in integrated plasmonic circuits with deep subwavelength confinement in the infrared. By proper design of the cloaking shell, transparency of the cloaked objects can be achieved, even when these objects occupy the whole cross section of a metal-insulator-metal waveguide. The effects of material losses, possible implementations, and potential applications are discussed.

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Phys. Rev. Applied 2, 064009– Published 23 December, 2014
  • Received 27 October 2014

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