Modeling and Performance Analysis of Metallic Plasmonic Nano-Antennas for Wireless Optical Communication in Nanonetworks

Nafari, Mona; Jornet, Josep Miquel

doi:10.1109/access.2017.2690990

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“…For conventional metal nanoantenna, the effective dipolar resonance length can be derived with the analysis of the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes and material properties. The effective dipolar resonance length may be considered linear to the resonance frequency when the frequency shift and the resonance length change is small, which is similar to our case. However, the resonance length of our hexagonal antennas is subject to the effective SPP and the effective material properties of the collection of individual nanoparticles and their surrounding medium.…”

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“…Each hexagonal unit cell (containing N = 13 nanoparticle resonators) can be considered an effective hexagonal antenna structure. The mathematical deduction of the analysis of such a system may be found in detail elsewhere . For conventional metal nanoantenna, the effective dipolar resonance length can be derived with the analysis of the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes and material properties.…”

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Diatom Frustule‐Inspired Metamaterial Absorbers: The Effect of Hierarchical Pattern Arrays

Zhao

Duan

et al. 2019

Adv Funct Materials

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Diatoms are photosynthetic algae that exist ubiquitously throughout the planet in water environments. Over the preceding decades, the diatom exoskeletons, termed frustules, featuring abundant micro-and nanopores, have served as the source material and inspiration for myriad research efforts. In this work, it is demonstrated that frustule-inspired hierarchical nanostructure designs may be utilized in the fabrication of metamaterial absorbers, thereby realizing a broadband infrared (IR) absorber with excellent performance in terms of absorption. In an effort to investigate the origin of this absorption characteristic, numerical models are developed to study these structures, revealing that the hierarchical organization of the constituent nanoparticulate metamaterial unit cells introduce an additional resonance mode to the device, broadening the absorption spectrum. It is further demonstrated that the resonant peaks shift linearly as a function of inter-unitcell spacing in the metamaterial, which is attributed to the induced collective dipole mode by the nanoparticles. Ultimately, the work herein represents an innovative perspective in terms of the design and fabrication of IR absorbers inspired by naturally occurring biomaterials, offering the potential to lead to advances in metamaterial absorber technology.

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Diatom Frustule‐Inspired Metamaterial Absorbers: The Effect of Hierarchical Pattern Arrays

Zhao

Duan

et al. 2019

Adv Funct Materials

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“…In [108] there is an exhausting investigation and comparison of the performance in transmission and reception of metallic nano-dipole antennas, implemented via various metals such as Cu, Al, Ag and Au. Taking into account each metal property, such as its dynamic complex conductivity and permittivity, the propagation properties of SPP waves and the antenna geometrical features, as length and radius, a mathematical framework is developed in order to analytically derive critical transmission and reception performance parameters such as the generated plasmonic current in reception and the total radiated power and efficiency in transmission.…”

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Key Roles of Plasmonics in Wireless THz Nanocommunications—A Survey

Lallas

2019

Applied Sciences

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Wireless data traffic has experienced an unprecedented boost in past years, and according to data traffic forecasts, within a decade, it is expected to compete sufficiently with wired broadband infrastructure. Therefore, the use of even higher carrier frequency bands in the THz range, via adoption of new technologies to equip future THz band wireless communication systems at the nanoscale is required, in order to accommodate a variety of applications, that would satisfy the ever increasing user demands of higher data rates. Certain wireless applications such as 5G and beyond communications, network on chip system architectures, and nanosensor networks, will no longer satisfy speed and latency demands with existing technologies and system architectures. Apart from conventional CMOS technology, and the already tested, still promising though, photonic technology, other technologies and materials such as plasmonics with graphene respectively, may offer a viable infrastructure solution on existing THz technology challenges. This survey paper is a thorough investigation on the current and beyond state of the art plasmonic system implementation for THz communications, by providing in-depth reference material, highlighting the fundamental aspects of plasmonic technology roles in future THz band wireless communication and THz wireless applications, that will define future demands coping with users' needs. Appl. Sci. 2019, 9, 5488 2 of 34 communications, researchers have been focused on taking advantage of higher regions in the radio spectrum, pointing to the THz band communication and infrastructure, as a promising solution to equip 5G plus networks, thus enabling efficient operation of bandwidth hungry applications, that are not feasible at the moment with current infrastructure.Wireless NoC (WiNoC) [5] with its inherent broadcast capability, appears as a promising approach to overcome all abovementioned bottlenecks of ancestor technologies. Ultra small miniature sizes of plasmon based antennas and other nanolink components as well, with considerably much less wiring, are the desired features of this technology, in order to enable the integration of one or multiple antennas per core, paving the way for dense, scalable NoC schemes, as required by future applications. Graphene based WiNoCs (GWiNoCs) is probably the most updated promising approach for THz nanoscale wireless communications, and it is therefore considered to be the basis for implementing future on chip network architectures. Alternatively, hybrid optical wireless schemes, may be also proved to be a promising NoC solution [6], by combining the best assets of these two worlds: low loss dielectric waveguide media, and miniature sized plasmonic material oscillating at THz rates.Last, wireless nanosensor networks (WNSNs) is another established THz nanoscale application, with basic similarities as in WiNoCs, such as core to core or to memory communication, but also with other unique characteristic types of communication, mainly between nanosensors and nanomachin...

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“…By exploiting the same mechanisms, the emerging plasmonic antennas also enable optical transmission in infrared and visible light spectrum [32,33], where plasmonic nanolasers [34] and single-photon detectors [35] can serve as transmitter and receiver, respectively. As the EM waves in the THz band, optical nano-communications inside the human body are faced with challenges, but have the advantage of the molecular absorption losses in water (i.e., the majority of blood content) being minimal within the optical window.…”

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From Nano-Communications to Body Area Networks: A Perspective on Truly Personal Communications

2020

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This paper presents an overview of future truly personal communications, ranging from networking inside the human body to the exchange of data with external wireless devices in the surrounding environment. At the nano-and micro-scales, communications can be realized with the aid of molecular mechanisms, Förster resonance energy transfer phenomenon, electromagnetic or ultrasound waves. At a larger scale, in the domain of Body Area Networks, a wide range of communication mechanisms is available, including smart-textiles, inductive-and body-couplings, ultrasounds, optical and wireless radio transmissions, a number of mature technologies existing already. The main goal of this paper is to identify the potential mechanisms that can be exploited to provide interfaces in between nano-and micro-scale systems and Body Area Networks. These interfaces have to bridge the existing gap between the two worlds, in order to allow for truly personal communication systems to become a reality. The extraordinary applications of such systems are also discussed, as they are strong drivers of the research in this area. INDEX TERMS Body Area Networks, Communication Interfaces, Nano-Networks, Molecular Communications, Personal Communications. I. INTRODUCTION The several successive generations of mobile cellular and wireless communications have been aiming at a single goal: to provide connectivity to people at their own pleasure. It started with the famous "anytime, anywhere" motto in the 1 st Generation of voice-only mobile cellular communications, and since then it has evolved to the provision of data and multimedia everywhere and with a decreasing delay. In addition to satisfying the anticipated data rate requirements, the incoming 5 th Generation aims at two other key goals: to reduce transmission latency and to substantially increase network capacity. These two goals are not improving the direct user's experience, but rather enabling machine-based applications and services. So, somehow, the further evolution of mobile and wireless communications has to eventually address the truly personal dimension of communications, i.e., the exchange of information within, around, and outside the body. Body area networks (BANs), accommodating such communication scenarios, have been gaining considerable attention recently. However, for truly personal communication systems, one needs to encompass nanonetworks [1], to allow for the exchange of information among devices inside the human body, by exploiting mechanisms at the cellular and molecular levels. At the nanoscale, communications are performed by using molecules or molecular structures with specific properties, such as photoactive fluorophores or channelrhodopsins, antibodies (proteins), moving bacteria or waves of ions at different scales, as shown in Fig. 1. Of course, this ultrawide range of communication mechanisms introduces a number of challenges, including those related to power supply, propagation delay, and throughput, among many others. These challenges need to be addressed from the te...

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Modeling and Performance Analysis of Metallic Plasmonic Nano-Antennas for Wireless Optical Communication in Nanonetworks

Cited by 78 publications

References 28 publications

Diatom Frustule‐Inspired Metamaterial Absorbers: The Effect of Hierarchical Pattern Arrays

Diatom Frustule‐Inspired Metamaterial Absorbers: The Effect of Hierarchical Pattern Arrays

Key Roles of Plasmonics in Wireless THz Nanocommunications—A Survey

From Nano-Communications to Body Area Networks: A Perspective on Truly Personal Communications

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