TY - JOUR ID - TI - Formation of Mid-Infrared Slot Antenna Arrays on Thin Al2O3/Si Structures Fabricated by Atomic Layer Deposition AU - Amjd A. Salman AU - Malik S. Ashoor PY - 2018 VL - 14 IS - 4 SP - 25 EP - 28 JO - Iraqi Journal of Applied Physics المجلة العراقية للفيزياء التطبيقية SN - 18132065 23091673 AB - The vertical distribution of the electric field enhancement produced by optical antennas could be experimentally confirmed. The combination of the antenna and a quantum cascade laser would yield attractive mid-infrared microscopic analysis to detect a solid state surface. In this work, slot antenna arrays were formed on a thin Al2O3 layer grown by atomic layer deposition on a silicon substrate. Reflectivity spectra measured in the mid-infrared range showed characteristic aspects, presumably caused by the surface phonon polariton of a SiO2 layer naturally formed on the Si substrate. When the Al2O3 layer thickness was 6 nm, such spectral features disappeared. In this way, we could estimate experimentally the electric field distribution normal to the surface of the substrate.

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