Extraction of lorentz model parameters for dielectrics and their application in nanoplasmonics

Abstract

The Lorentz model parameters for alumina, aluminum arsenide, zinc oxide, potassium bromide, graphene and gallium arsenide are optimized using a nonlinear optimization algorithm based on the Hooke and Jeeves method. The complex relative permittivity of each of the mentioned materials is calculated over a long wavelength range using the optimized parameters. The obtained permittivity curves exhibit very good match with those obtained from the experimental results. The symmetric SPP mode propagation through MDM waveguides containing alumina and aluminum arsenide as dielectric layers sandwiched between layers of silver has been investigated using their optimized modeling parameters.