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Nanostructured plasmonic metal systems are known to enhance greatly variety of radiative and nonradiative optical processes, both linear and nonlinear, which are due to the interaction of an electron in a molecule or semiconductor with the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Maxim Durach , Anastasia Rusina , Victor I. Klimov , Mark I. Stockman

Ultrafast thermal transport in low-dimensional materials challenges traditional diffusive models due to reduced scattering, strong electron-phonon coupling, and pronounced non-equilibrium effects. To address these complexities, we extend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Houssem Rezgui , Chuang Zhang , Clivia Sotomayor-Torres

We theoretically study the characteristics of photoelectron emission in plasmonic nanoparticle arrays. Nanoparticles are partially embedded in a semiconductor, forming Schottky barriers at metal/semiconductor interfaces through which…

We report an unambiguous phonon resonance effect originating from germanium nanoparticles embedded in silicon matrix. Our approach features the combination of phonon wave-packet method with atomistic dynamics and finite element method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-05 Lei Feng , Takuma Shiga , Haoxue Han , Shenghong Ju , Yuriy A. Kosevich , Junichiro Shiomi

This paper is concerned with the analysis of time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering from plasmonic inclusions in the finite frequency regime beyond the quasi-static approximation. The electric permittivity and magnetic permeability in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Hongjie Li , Shanqiang Li , Hongyu Liu , Xianchao Wang

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…

Two possible mechanisms of surface plasmon (SP) oscillations damping in metallic nanoparticles (MNPs), not connected with electron-phonon interaction are investigated theoretically: a) the radiation damping of SP, b) resonant coupling of SP…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Armen Melikyan , Hayk Minassian

Plasmons in ultranarrow metal gaps are highly sensitive to the electron density profile at the metal surfaces. Using a fully quantum mechanical approach, we study the effects of electron spill-out on gap plasmons and reflectance from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-12 Enok J. H Skjølstrup , Thomas Søndergaard , Thomas G. Pedersen

Plasmonic color filters employing a single optically-thick nanostructured metal layer have recently generated considerable interest as an alternative to colorant-based color filtering technologies, due to their reliability, ease of…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-08 Beibei Zeng , Yongkang Gao , Filbert J. Bartoli

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

Dispersion properties of metals and propagation of quantum bulk plasmon in the high photon energy regime are studied. The nonlocal dielectric permittivity of a metal is determined by the quantum plasma effects and is calculated by applying…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-23 M. Moaied , M. M. A. Yajadda , K. Ostrikov

Under the local plasmonic excitation, the Raman images of a single molecule can now reach sub-nanometer resolution. We report here a theoretical description of the interaction between a molecule and a highly confined plasmonic field. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-06 Sai Duan , Guangjun Tian , Yongfei Ji , Jiushu Shao , Zhenchao Dong , Yi Luo

We develop a theory to model the interaction of graphene substrate with localized plasmon resonances in metallic nanoparticles. The influence of a graphene substrate on the surface plasmon resonances is described using an effective…

It is shown that for thin metallic films thickness of which does not exceed thickness of skin layer, the problem allows analytical solution. In the field of resonant frequencies the analysis of dependence of coefficients of transmission,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

The observation of the electrically tunable and highly confined plasmons in graphene has stimulated the exploration of interesting properties of plasmons in other two dimensional materials. Recently, hyperbolic plasmon resonance modes are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Chong Wang , Yangye Sun , Shenyang Huang , Qiaoxia Xing , Guowei Zhang , Chaoyu Song , Fanjie Wang , Yuangang Xie , Yuchen Lei , Zhengzong Sun , Hugen Yan

Scattering from metal nanoparticles near their localized plasmon resonance; especially, the resonances of noble metals which are mostly in the visible or infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum; is a way of improving light absorption…

The combination of nanodiamonds with plasmonic metal particles is being explored for synergic effects that can enhance biosensing and antibacterial treatments, energy harvesting, photocatalysis, and quantum centres. Here we systematically…

In this paper we investigate the resonant electron-plasmon interactions in a drifting electron gas of arbitrary degeneracy. The kinetic corrected quantum hydrodyanmic model is transformed into the effective Schr\"{o}dinger-Poisson model and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 M. Akbari-Moghanjoughi

Surface plasmon polaritons (plasmons) are a combination of light and a collective oscillation of the free electron plasma at metal-dielectric interfaces. This interaction allows sub-wavelength confinement of light, beyond the diffraction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 Reinier W. Heeres , Leo P. Kouwenhoven , Valery Zwiller

In this paper we analyze the effects of nonlocality on the optical properties of a system consisting of a thin metallic film separated from a graphene sheet by a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) layer. We show that nonlocal effects in the…