Metallization of Nanofilms in Strong Adiabatic Electric Fields
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2015-05-19 v2
Abstract
We introduce an effect of metallization of dielectric nanofilms by strong, adiabatically varying electric fields. The metallization causes optical properties of a dielectric film to become similar to those of a plasmonic metal (strong absorption and negative permittivity at low optical frequencies). The is a quantum effect, which is exponentially size-dependent, occurring at fields on the order of 0.1 V/A and pulse durations ranging from ~ 1 fs to ~ 10 ns for film thickness 3 to 10 nm.
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@article{arxiv.1007.2171,
title = {Metallization of Nanofilms in Strong Adiabatic Electric Fields},
author = {Maxim Durach and Anastasia Rusina and Matthias F. Kling and Mark I. Stockman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.2171},
year = {2015}
}
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The supplementary material for the paper is at arXiv:1007.2366v1 (http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.2366)