In this work, it is theoretically investigated the effect of broadband cylindrical nanoantenna in a plasmonic optical nanocircuit. The circuit is composed of a nanoantenna formed by the combination of loop and dipole antennas that is connected to a twowire optical transmission line in which only the electric dipole is connected to the line. The numerical analysis of the nanocircuit is done by the linear Method of Moments (MoM), where gold cylindrical conductors are modeled with a given surface impedance. The analysis is divided into two parts. In the first part, only the isolated nanoantenna is discussed, where the values of input impedance, current distribution, reflection coefficient, percentage bandwidth and radiated efficiency are investigated. Then, in the second part, the impedance matching of the nanocircuit is analyzed, presenting the results of current variation, planar distribution of the near field and the voltage reflection coefficient for different geometrical parameters. The results show that the loop inserted into the circuit increases the bandwidth of nanoantenna (with bandwidth of up to 42%) and decreases the overall voltage reflection coefficient of the optical nanocircuit (reaching up to -25dB).
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