Band structure engineered layered metals for low-loss plasmonics

Morten N. Gjerding, Mohnish Pandey and Kristian S. Thygesen ()
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Morten N. Gjerding: Center for Atomic-scale Materials Design (CAMD), Technical University of Denmark
Mohnish Pandey: Center for Atomic-scale Materials Design (CAMD), Technical University of Denmark
Kristian S. Thygesen: Center for Atomic-scale Materials Design (CAMD), Technical University of Denmark

Nature Communications, 2017, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract Plasmonics currently faces the problem of seemingly inevitable optical losses occurring in the metallic components that challenges the implementation of essentially any application. In this work, we show that Ohmic losses are reduced in certain layered metals, such as the transition metal dichalcogenide TaS2, due to an extraordinarily small density of states for scattering in the near-IR originating from their special electronic band structure. On the basis of this observation, we propose a new class of band structure engineered van der Waals layered metals composed of hexagonal transition metal chalcogenide-halide layers with greatly suppressed intrinsic losses. Using first-principles calculations, we show that the suppression of optical losses lead to improved performance for thin-film waveguiding and transformation optics.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15133

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