Transition metal nitrides are heating up the field of plasmonics

M Dasog - Chemistry of Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metal nitride nanostructures have been predicted to exhibit plasmonic responses in the UV
to IR region, which can enable their potential use as low-cost, chemically, and thermally …

Highly plasmonic titanium nitride by room-temperature sputtering

CC Chang, J Nogan, ZP Yang, WJM Kort-Kamp… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Titanium nitride (TiN) has recently emerged as an attractive alternative material for
plasmonics. However, the typical high-temperature deposition of plasmonic TiN using either …

Reduced optical losses in refractory plasmonic titanium nitride thin films deposited with molecular beam epitaxy

KC Maurya, VM Shalaev, A Boltasseva… - Optical Materials …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Refractory plasmonic materials that have optical properties close to those of noble-metals
and at the same time are environmentally friendly, commercially viable and CMOS …

Broadband Tamm plasmon-enhanced planar hot-electron photodetector

J Wang, Y Zhu, W Wang, Y Li, R Gao, P Yu, H Xu… - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Here, we propose a planar hot-electron photodetector based on broadband Tamm plasmon
resonance using a TiN layer, n-type doped Si layer, and seven pairs of DBRs. Simulation …

Optical, electrical and mechanical properties of TiN thin film obtained from a TiO2 sol-gel coating and rapid thermal nitridation

A Valour, MAU Higuita, G Guillonneau… - Surface and Coatings …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study reports the optical, electrical and mechanical properties of TiN films prepared by
direct rapid thermal nitridation process from a photo-patternable TiO 2 sol-gel layer. The sol …

High aspect ratio titanium nitride trench structures as plasmonic biosensor

E Shkondin, T Repän, O Takayama… - Optical Materials …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
High aspect ratio titanium nitride (TiN) grating structures are fabricated by the combination of
deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) and atomic layer deposition (ALD) techniques. TiN is …

High‐Quality Plasmonic Materials TiN and ZnO: Al by Atomic Layer Deposition

N Izyumskaya, D Fomra, K Ding… - physica status solidi …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electromagnetic radiation when coupled to collective oscillations of free electrons, dubbed
as plasmonics, makes it possible to manipulate light at dimensions well below the diffraction …

Photonic spin Hall effect in robust phase gradient metasurfaces utilizing transition metal nitrides

K Chaudhuri, A Shaltout, D Shah, U Guler, A Dutta… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Robust and high-temperature stable (refractory) transition metal nitrides are an emerging
class of nanophotonic materials aimed at durable, bio-and CMOS-compatible plasmonic …

[HTML][HTML] Optical properties of plasmonic titanium nitride thin films from ultraviolet to mid-infrared wavelengths deposited by pulsed-DC sputtering, thermal and plasma …

LY Beliaev, E Shkondin, AV Lavrinenko, O Takayama - Optical Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
We present a comparative study of the optical properties of 50 nm-thick titanium nitride (TiN)
films deposited on a silicon substrate by pulsed-DC sputtering, thermal, and plasma …

Tunable plasmonic HfN nanoparticles and arrays

SHC Askes, NJ Schilder, E Zoethout, A Polman… - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
We present the fabrication of tunable plasmonic hafnium nitride (HfN) nanoparticles. HfN is a
metallic refractory material with the potential of supporting plasmon resonances in the visible …