Extraordinary magnetic field enhancement with metallic nanowire: role of surface impedance in Babinet's principle for sub-skin-depth regime

Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Dec 31;103(26):263901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.263901. Epub 2009 Dec 21.

Abstract

We propose and analyze the "complementary" structure of a metallic nanogap, namely, the metallic nanowire for magnetic field enhancement. A huge enhancement of the field up to a factor of 300 was achieved. Introducing the surface impedance concept, we also develop and numerically confirm a new analytic theory which successfully predicts the field enhancement factors for metal nanostructures. Compared to the predictions of the classical Babinet principle applied to a nanogap, an order of magnitude difference in the field enhancement factor was observed for the sub-skin-depth regime nanowire.