In this paper, metallo-dielectric core-shell Yagi-Uda nanoantennas (NAs) are reported and optimized using 3D finite different time domain (FDTD) method and particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique to maximize the directivity. The suggested design has a silicon rectangular prism with spherical or rectangular silver core to improve the directivity and radiation efficiency. The proposed design with rectangular prism silver core achieves radiation efficiency of 77.23 % with a directivity of 18.41 at a wavelength of 500 nm. However, the directivity is increased to 21.22 with a radiation efficiency of 69.15 % with spherical-core based structure. The achieved enhancement is attributed to the elements shape in addition to the metallo-dielectric structure. Further, the silicon dielectric shell exhibits magnetic mode with high refractive index, as well as the surface plasmon mode supported by the silver core.
In this paper, new design of Yagi-Uda nano-antenna (NA) based on ellipsoid shape is introduced and numerically analyzed using 3-D finite difference time domain method (3-D FDTD) via Lumerical software package. The NA parameters are optimized using the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to achieve high directivity at a wavelength of 500 nm for wireless point-to-point applications. To illustrate the performance of the proposed antenna, different radiation parameters such as radiation pattern, directivity, and radiation efficiency have been studied. The optimized ellipsoid nano-antenna shows a directivity of 22.36 which is enhanced by 86.3 % relative to the conventional spherical counterpart. Moreover, the fabrication tolerance of the reported design is studied to ensure the accuracy of the introduced NA parameters to the fabrications errors.
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