Accurate Effective Medium Theory for the Analysis of Spoof Localized Surface Plasmons in Textured Metallic Cylinders

TL;DR

This paper introduces an accurate effective medium theory for modeling localized surface plasmon resonances in textured PEC cylinders, outperforming previous models especially for structures with fewer grooves.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel effective medium model incorporating surface conductivity to accurately predict LSP resonances in textured PEC cylinders with fewer grooves.

Findings

Accurately predicts ultra-sharp LSP resonances in structures with fewer grooves.

Outperforms previous models by avoiding spurious resonances.

Validated by full-wave simulations.

Abstract

It has been recently demonstrated that textured closed surfaces which are made out of perfect electric conductors (PECs) can mimic highly localized surface plasmons (LSPs). Here, we propose an effective medium which can accurately model LSP resonances in a two-dimensional periodically decorated PEC cylinder. The accuracy of previous models is limited to structures with deep-subwavelength and high number of grooves. However, we show that our model can successfully predict the ultra-sharp LSP resonances which exist in structures with relatively lower number of grooves. Such resonances are not correctly predictable with previous models that give some spurious resonances. The success of the proposed model is indebted to the incorporation of an effective surface conductivity which is created at the interface of the cylinder and the homogeneous medium surrounding the structure. This surface conductivity models the effect of higher diffracted orders which are excited in the periodic structure. The validity of the proposed model is verified by full-wave simulations.