naa a22 4500 510817610 CHVBK 20180411083515.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11468-013-9526-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11468-013-9526-x Analysis and Optimum Design of Hybrid Plasmonic Slab Waveguides [Elektronische Daten] [Mahmoud Talafi Noghani, Mohammad Vadjed Samiei] Propagation properties of hybrid plasmonic slab waveguides are studied in detail using transfer matrix method considering structural and material aspects. Hybrid metal-insulator, hybrid metal-insulator-metal, and hybrid insulator-metal-insulator waveguides are considered. Propagation length (L p), spatial length (L s), and mode length (L m) are utilized as three common figures of merit to compare and optimize the waveguides according to the layer thicknesses and metal/dielectric materials. The effect of constituting materials including metals (such as silver, gold, copper, and aluminum) and dielectrics (common dielectric materials used in photonic integrated circuit technologies such as silicon and silicon compounds, III-V compounds, and polymers) are discussed. It is found that hybrid waveguides are partially to completely superior to conventional plasmonic waveguides, providing a better balance between confinement and loss. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2013 Plasmonics nationallicence Hybrid plasmonic slab waveguide nationallicence Transfer matrix method nationallicence Talafi Noghani Mahmoud School of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 1684613114, Tehran, Iran aut Vadjed Samiei Mohammad School of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 1684613114, Tehran, Iran aut Plasmonics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 8/2(2013-06-01), 1155-1168 1557-1955 8:2<1155 2013 8 11468 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-013-9526-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-013-9526-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Talafi Noghani Mahmoud School of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 1684613114, Tehran, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vadjed Samiei Mohammad School of Electrical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 1684613114, Tehran, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Plasmonics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 8/2(2013-06-01), 1155-1168 1557-1955 8:2<1155 2013 8 11468 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer