Tungsten Refractory Plasmonic Material for High Fluence Bowtie Nano-antenna

Abstract

In general, noble metals based nano-antennas cannot work at high power applications such as heat resisted magnetic recording, solar thermo-photovoltaics, and nano-scale heat transfer systems. These antennas are prone to being damaged at sufficiently high energy density due to their small footprint and low Tamman temperature. This paper proposes tungsten refractory plasmonic material based nano-antennas as an alternative gold nano-antennas: we show that the antennas can handle 300 times higher fluence than gold (Au) counterpart. In addition, it can achieve 7.22 higher magnitude of electric field intensity than gold antennas.