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We predict the existence of surface plasmons polaritons at the interface between a metal and a periodically modulated dielectric medium, and find an unusual multi-branched dispersion curve of surface and bulk modes. The branches are…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-17 Lior Bar-Hillel , Yonatan Plotnik , Ohad Segal , Mordechai Segev

In the present work we theoretically investigated the excitation of surface plasmon-polaritons (SPPs) in deformed graphene by attenuated total reflection method. We considered the Otto geometry for SPPs excitation in graphene. Efficiency of…

Nanoparticle (NP) arrays of noble metals strongly absorb light in the visible to infrared wavelengths through resonant interactions between the incident electromagnetic field and the metal's free electron plasma. Such plasmonic interfaces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-06 Miriam Israelowitz , Jennifer Amey , Tao Cong , Radhakrishna Sureshkumar

We report theoretical evidence that bulk nonlinear materials weakly interacting with highly localized plasmonic modes in ultra-sub-wavelength metallic nanostructures can lead to nonlinear effects at the single plasmon level in the visible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-27 Filippo Alpeggiani , Stefania D'Agostino , Daniele Sanvitto , Dario Gerace

We demonstrate tunable pulling and pushing optical forces on plasmonic nanostructures around Fano resonance. The plasmonic nanostructure containing a spherical core with optical gain and a metallic shell shows much larger optical pulling…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-18 D. L. Gao , R. Shi , Y. Huang , W. H. Ni , L. Gao

We illustrate that the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) excitation through the prism coupling method is fundamentally limited by destructive interference of spatial light components. We propose that the destructive interference can be…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-11 Zhichao Ruan , Hui Wu , Min Qiu , Shanhui Fan

A quantum mechanical scattering theory for relativistic, highly focused electron beams near nanoscopic platelets is presented, revealing a new excitation mechanism due to the electron wave scattering from the platelet edges. Radiative…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 M. A. Itskovsky , H. Cohen , T. Maniv

Excitation of surface plasmon waves in extrinsic graphene is studied using a full-wave electromagnetic field solver as analysis engine. Particular emphasis is placed on the role played by spatial dispersion due to the finite size of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Davide Mencarelli , Stefano Bellucci , Antonello Sindona , Luca Pierantoni

High electric fields can significantly alter catalytic environments and the resultant chemical processes. Such fields arise naturally in biological systems but can also be artificially induced through localized excitations at nanoscale.…

By an idealized quantum mechanical model, we formally describe the dispersion of nonretarded electromagnetic waves that express charge density oscillations near a fixed plane in three spatial dimensions (3D) at zero temperature. Our goal is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Dionisios Margetis

Photoresponse of bimetallic Au-Ag nanoparticle embedded soda glass (Au-Ag@SG) substrate is reported for surface plasmon assisted optical switching using 808 nm excitation. Au-Ag@SG system is made by an ion beam technique where Ag^+ is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-01 Sandip Dhara , C. -Y. Lu , P. Magudapathy , Y. -F. Huang , W. -S. Tu , K. -H. Chen

The temporal modulation of material parameters enables optical amplification within linear media. Here we consider the fundamental building block of plasmonics, a subwavelength metal nanoparticle, and study how temporal modulation alters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Miguel Verde , Paloma A. Huidobro

We derived closed-form analytical expressions for the surface response functions (SRFs) for heterostructure. We investigate structures consisting of up to three layered, coated heterostructure of two-dimensional (2D) materials with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Teresa Lee , Godfrey Gumbs , Thi Nga Do , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang

The random-phase-approximation semiclassical scheme for description of plasmon excitations in large metallic nanospheres (with radius 10--100 nm) is developed for a case of presence of dynamical electric field. The spectrum of plasmons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 W. Jacak , J. Krasnyj , J. Jacak , A. Chepok , L. Jacak , W. Donderowicz , D. Z. Hu , D. M. Schaadt

Future generations of photoelectrodes for solar fuel generation must employ inexpensive, earth-abundant absorber materials in order to provide a large-scale source of clean energy. These materials tend to have poor electrical transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-17 I. Thomann , B. A. Pinaud , Z. Chen , B. M. Clemens , T. F. Jaramillo , Mark. L. Brongersma

The effect of the electron temperature on both the light absorption and the scattering by metal nanoparticles (MNs) with excitation of the surface plasmon electron vibrations is studied in the framework of the kinetic theory. The formulae…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 N. I. Grigorchuk

We model a dye-doped polymeric nanosphere as an ensemble of quantum emitters and use it to investigate the localized exciton-polaritons supported by such a nanosphere. By determining the time evolution of the density matrix of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-15 Martin J. Gentile , Simon A. R. Horsley , William L. Barnes

We launch surface plasmons from one end of a silver nanowire by asymmetric illumination with white light and use plasmon-to-light scattering at the nanowire ends to probe spectroscopically the plasmonic Fabry-Perot wire modes. The spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 Andreas Hohenau , Primoz Kusar , Christian Gruber , Joachim R. Krenn

I present a direct and intuitive eigenmode method that evaluates the near-field enhancement around the surface of metallic nanoparticles of arbitrary shape. The method is based on the boundary integral equation in the electrostatic limit.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Titus Sandu

The ability to engineer localized surface plasmon resonances at large scale usually relies on precise nanoscale patterning. Here, we demonstrate that mid-infrared plasmonic responses can instead emerge in unpatterned polysilicon films…