Metal nanodisk hybrid plasmonic resonator on dielectric substrate for relieved fabrication complexity

We propose a metal nanodisk hybrid plasmonic resonator (HPR), which consists of a metallic nanodisk on top of a dielectric slab. In contrast to the previously studied plasmonic resonator structures based on metal substrates such as the nanopatch resonator, the fabrication process of the proposed resonator is much easier because of a dielectric substrate. The performance of the proposed resonator has been theoretically investigated and compared to the previously studied structures. It has been shown that the performance of the proposed resonator is superior to that of the nanopatch resonator and comparable to that of a hybrid resonator based on a metal substrate.