Design and properties of a plasmonic modulator in situ tunable by electric field are presented. Our design comprises the creation of periodic surface pattern on the surface of an elastic polymer supported by a piezo-substrate by excimer laser irradiation and subsequent selective coverage by silver by tilted angle vacuum evaporation. The structure creation was confirmed by AFM and FIB-SEM techniques. An external electric field is used for fine control of the polymer pattern amplitude, which tends to decrease with increasing voltage. As a result, surface plasmon-polariton excitation is quenched, leading to the less pronounced structure of plasmon response. This quenching was checked using UV-Vis spectroscopy and SERS measurements, and confirmed by numerical simulation. All methods prove the proposed functionality of the structures enabling the creation smart plasmonic materials for a very broad range of advanced optical applications.

Baumit Spol s r o 250 01 Brandys nad Labem Stara Boleslav Czech Republic

Department of Microelectronics Faculty of Electrical Engineering Czech Technical University 166 27 Prague Czech Republic

Department of Solid State Engineering University of Chemistry and Technology Prague 166 28 Prague Czech Republic

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering J E Purkyně University 400 96 Usti nad Labem Czech Republic

Faculty of Science J E Purkyně University 400 96 Usti nad Labem Czech Republic

Research School of Chemistry and Applied Biomedical Sciences Tomsk Polytechnic University 634049 Tomsk Russia

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