Fabrication and characterization of metallic quasi-periodic structures

A variety of intriguing interference patterns are generated as a template to create metallic quasi-periodic structures using our robust experimental setup. A combination of thermal evaporation and lift-off process, the 2D metallic quasi-periodic structures are generated, a twelve-fold symmetry structure can be clearly observed in fabricated structures with four exposures. The excitation of surface plasmon (SP) resonances, which are determined by the geometry of metallic structures, the incident angle alpha, and the refractive index n(d) of the adjacent dielectric medium, is demonstrated in the optical transmission experiments. The optical transmission of metallic quasi-periodic structures can be tuned by varying the refractive index n(d), changing the period a and altering the incident angle alpha. The experimental results agree well with the predication for SP resonances. It's the first step to investigate the interesting optical properties of metallic quasi-periodic structures.