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American Chemical Society, Nano Letters, 8(15), p. 5200-5207, 2015

DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01437

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Hybridization in Three Dimensions: A Novel Route toward Plasmonic Metamolecules

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Abstract

Plasmonic metamolecules have received much interest in the last years since they can produce a wide spectrum of different hybrid optical resonances. Most of the configurations presented so far, however, considered planar resonators lying on a dielectric substrate. This typically yields high damping and radiative losses, which severely limit the performance of the system. Here we show that these limits can be overcome by considering a 3D arrangement made from slanted nanorod dimers extruding from a silver baseplate. This configuration mimics an out of plane split ring resonator capable of a strong near-field interaction at the terminations and a strong diffractive coupling with nearby nanostructures. Compared to the corresponding planar counterparts, higher values of electric and magnetic fields are found (about a factor 10 and a factor 3, respectively). High-quality-factor resonances (Q ≈ 390) are produced in the mid-IR as a result of the efficient excitation of collective modes in dimers arrays.