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We theoretically investigated electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) of ultraviolet surface plasmon modes in aluminum nanodisks. Using full-wave simulations, we studied the impact of diameter on the resonant modes of the nanodisks. We…

The paper reports on the optical detection and spectroscopy of ultracold atoms near a gold surface. A probe light field is used to excite surface plasmon polaritons. The refractive index of the atomic gas shifts the plasmon resonance and…

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Localized surface plasmons are confined collective oscillations of electrons in metallic nanoparticles. When driven by light, the optical response is dictated by geometrical parameters and the dielectric environment and plasmons are…

The ability to effectively guide electromagnetic radiation below the diffraction limit is of the utmost importance in the prospect of all-optical plasmonic circuitry. Here, we propose an alternative solution to conventional metal-based…

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Electron beam imaging is a common technique used for characterizing the morphology of plasmonic nanostructures. During the imaging process, the electron beam interacts with traces of organic material in the chamber and produces a well-know…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Mingxia Song , Gérard Colas-des-Francs , Alexandre Bouhelier

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…

Metallic nano-structures characterised by multiple geometric length scales support low-frequency surface-plasmon modes, which enable strong light localization and field enhancement. We suggest studying such configurations using singular…

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The interaction of light with matter has triggered the interest of scientists for long time. The area of plasmonics emerges in this context through the interaction of light with valence electrons in metals. The random phase approximation in…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-07 Marios Mattheakis , Giorgos P. Tsironis , Efthimios Kaxiras

This paper is withdrawn by the authors. We theoretically examine graphene plasmon polaritons (GPP) supported by a sheet of graphene sandwiched between two dielectric media. The influence of the dielectric environment on GPP's is studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-24 Thomas Christensen , Antti-Pekka Jauho , N. Asger Mortensen

Aluminum nanostructures have recently been at the focus of numerous studies due to their properties including oxidation stability and surface plasmon resonances covering the ultraviolet and visible spectral windows. In this article, we…

In this work, we report numerical simulations and experiments of the optical response of a gold nanostrip embedded in a silicon strip waveguide gap at telecom wavelengths. We show that the spectral features observed in transmission and…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-28 Alba Espinosa-Soria , Amadeu Griol , Alejandro Martínez

Optical nonlocalities are elusive and hardly observable in traditional plasmonic materials like noble and alkali metals. Here we report experimental observation of viscoelastic nonlocalities in the infrared optical response of doped…

Plasmon resonance in metals represents the collective oscillation of the free electron gas density and enables enhanced light-matter interactions in nanoscale dimensions. Traditionally, the classical Drude model describes the plasmonic…

According to the hydrodynamic Drude model, surface-plasmon resonances of metallic nanostructures blueshift owing to the nonlocal response of the metal's electron gas. The screening length characterising the nonlocal effect is often small…

Strong optical nonreciprocity at the nanoscale, relying on extreme one-way modes and backscattering suppression, can enable fundamentally new approaches in optoelectronics and plasmonics. Of special interest is achieving nonreciprocity in…

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Optical plasmon-polariton modes confined in both transverse dimensions to significantly less than a wavelength are exhibited in open waveguides structured as sharp metal wedges. The analysis reveals two distinctive modes corresponding to a…

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We investigate the excitation of electrostatic wakefields in metallic nanostructures (nanowires) due to the propagation of a short electron pulse. For that purpose, a dispersive (nonlocal) dielectric response of the system is considered,…

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We point out that plasmons in doped graphene simultaneously enable low-losses and significant wave localization for frequencies below that of the optical phonon branch $\hbar\omega_{Oph}\approx 0.2$ eV. Large plasmon losses occur in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Marinko Jablan , Hrvoje Buljan , Marin Soljačić

We consider plasmonic metasurfaces constituted by an arbitrary periodic arrangement of spherical metallic nanoparticles. Each nanoparticle supports three degenerate dipolar localized surface plasmon (LSP) resonances. In the regime where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-23 François Fernique , Guillaume Weick

Self-consistent field theory is used to obtain the non-local plasmon dispersion relation of monolayer graphene which is Coulomb-coupled to a thick conductor. We calculate numerically the undamped plasmon excitation spectrum for arbitrary…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-24 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , N. J. M. Horing