Abstract
An efficient technique is developed to fabricate optically thin metallic films with subwavelength patterns and their complements simultaneously. By comparing the spectra of the complementary films, we show that Babinet's principle nearly holds for these structures in the optical domain. Rigorous full-wave simulations are employed to verify the experimental observations. It is further demonstrated that a discrete-dipole approximation can qualitatively describe the spectral dependence of the metallic membranes on the geometry of the constituent particles as well as the illuminating polarization.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 193101 |
Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
Volume | 97 |
Issue number | 19 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 8 2010 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)