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Tunable Optical Antennas Using Vanadium Dioxide Metal-Insulator Phase Transitions

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Here, we investigate the possibility of exploiting the insulator-to-metal transition in vanadium dioxide (VO2) to tune and optically control the resonances of dipole nanoantennas in the visible near-infrared region. We compare the results obtained in the case of antennas completely made by VO2 with those of previous works and highlight the key role of the substrate to perform dynamical tuning. We also present a highly efficient configuration composed of dipole gold antenna loaded with VO2 and give some general guidelines to optimally exploit phase transitions to tune nanodevices.

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The authors acknowledge useful discussions with Francesco Banfi, Marco Gandolfi, Luca Carletti, and Davide Rocco.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    A. Tognazzi, A. Locatelli, M. A. Vincenti & C. De Angelis

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Brescia, Italy

    A. Locatelli & C. De Angelis

  3. I-LAMP & Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy

    C. Giannetti

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Tognazzi, A., Locatelli, A., Vincenti, M.A. et al. Tunable Optical Antennas Using Vanadium Dioxide Metal-Insulator Phase Transitions. Plasmonics 14, 1283–1288 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-019-00917-w

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