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标题：Observation of Wavelength-Dependent Quantum Plasmon Tunneling with Varying the Thickness of Graphene Spacer
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作者：Khang June Lee ; Shinho Kim ; Woonggi Hong 等
期刊名称：Scientific Reports
电子版ISSN：2045-2322
出版年度：2019
卷号：9
期号：1
页码：1-8
DOI：10.1038/s41598-018-37882-z
出版社：Springer Nature
摘要：Plasmonic coupling provides a highly localized electromagnetic field in the gap of noble metals when illuminated by a light. The plasmonic field enhancement is generally known to be inversely proportional to the gap distance. Given such a relation, reducing the gap distance appears to be necessary to achieve the highest possible field enhancement. At the sub-nanometer scale, however, quantum mechanical effects have to be considered in relation to plasmonic coupling. Here, we use graphene as a spacer to observe plasmonic field enhancement in sub-nanometer gap. The gap distance is precisely controlled by the number of stacked graphene layers. We propose that the sudden drop of field enhancement for the single layer spacer is originated from the plasmon tunneling through the thin spacer. Numerical simulation which incorporates quantum tunneling is also performed to support the experimental results. From the fact that field enhancement with respect to the number of graphene layers exhibits different behavior in two wavelengths corresponding to on- and off-resonance conditions, tunneling phenomenon is thought to destroy the resonance conditions of plasmonic coupling.