Slowing down surface plasmons on a Moiré surface
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2009-02
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Source Title
Physical Review Letters
Print ISSN
0031-9007
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The American Physical Society
Volume
102
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6
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1 - 4
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English
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Abstract
We have demonstrated slow propagation of surface plasmons on metallic Moiré surfaces. The phase shift at the node of the Moiré surface localizes the propagating surface plasmons and adjacent nodes form weakly coupled plasmonic cavities. Group velocities around vg=0.44c at the center of the coupled cavity band and almost a zero group velocity at the band edges are observed. A tight binding model is used to understand the coupling behavior. Furthermore, the sinusoidally modified amplitude about the node suppresses the radiation losses and reveals a relatively high quality factor (Q=103).