Circuit elements at optical frequencies: nanoinductors, nanocapacitors, and nanoresistors.

By Nader Engheta, A. Salandrino, Andrea Alù. Physical Review Letters, 2004

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We present the concept of circuit nanoelements in the optical domain using plasmonic and nonplasmonic nanoparticles. Three basic circuit elements, i.e., nanoinductors, nanocapacitors, and nanoresistors, are discussed in terms of small nanostructures with different material properties. Coupled nanoscale circuits and parallel and series combinations are also envisioned, which may provide road maps for the synthesis of more complex circuits in the IR and visible bands. Ideas for the optical implementation of right-handed and left-handed nanotransmission lines are also forecasted.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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Controlling the near-field oscillations of loaded plasmonic nanoantennas (2009, background): “Adopting RF concepts, we now show how the behaviour of our loaded infrared antennas can be explained within the framework of optical circuit theory, which has recently been introduced by Engheta and colleague”
Theory of linear chains of metamaterial/plasmonic particles as subdiffraction optical nanotransmission lines (2006, background): “Indeed, this concept can be fully motivated in terms of our nanocircuit interpretation of the light interaction with plasmonic particles [51].”
Past achievements and future challenges in the development of three-dimensional photonic metamaterials (2011, background): “Fourth, a 3D ensemble of polaritonic spheres for negative e was proposed for achieving isotropic negative μ near the first Mie resonance at infrared frequencie”
Optical negative-index metamaterials (2007, background): “The overall result is a resonant LC circuit with a current loop that operates at optical frequencie”
Nanoantennas for visible and infrared radiation (2011, methodology): “Reprinted with permission from Engheta et al [83].”