Surface plasmons in metallic structures
Materials Science
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
Since the concept of a surface collective excitation was first introduced by Ritchie, surface plasmons have played a significant role in a variety of areas of fundamental and applied research, from surface dynamics to surface-plasmon microscopy, surface-plasmon resonance technology, and a wide range of photonic applications. Here we review the basic concepts underlying the existence of surface plasmons in metallic structures, and introduce a new low-energy surface collective excitation that has been recently predicted to exist.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0408683,
title = {Surface plasmons in metallic structures},
author = {J. M. Pitarke and V. M. Silkin and E. V. Chulkov and P. M. Echenique},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0408683},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages, 14 figures, to appear in J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt