Folded dipole plasmonic resonators

A class of folded ordered plasmonic dipole nanoresonators based on insulator-metal-insulator (IMI) slab waveguides is proposed and studied. This work is motivated by the development of a novel fabrication process that avoids the need for direct write nanolithography and instead relies on accessible UV lithography and other top-down parallel fabrication techniques that result in metallic dolmen structures with nanometre sized gaps. In this context, the dolmen geometry consists of two vertical segments supporting a flat horizontal slab. It is shown using frequency domain finite element analysis that such structures, which are essentially folded dipole antennas, resonate in a similar manner to their linear unfolded counterparts. The effect of the likely fabrication features is also studied.