Mimicking Surface Plasmons with Structured Surfaces

By John B. Pendry, Luis Martin-Moreno, F. García-Vidal. Science, 2004

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Metals such as silver support surface plasmons: electromagnetic surface excitations localized near the surface that originate from the free electrons of the metal. Surface modes are also observed on highly conducting surfaces perforated by holes. We establish a close connection between the two, showing that electromagnetic waves in both materials are governed by an effective permittivity of the same plasma form. The size and spacing of holes can readily be controlled on all relevant length scales, which allows the creation of designer surface plasmons with almost arbitrary dispersion in frequency and in space, opening new vistas in surface plasmon optics.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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Materials perspective on Casimir and van der Waals interactions (2015, background): “Pendry and co-workers (Garcia-Vidal et al., 2005; Pendry et al., 2004) proposed engineered dispersion by periodically nanostructuring surfaces by perforating perfect electrical conductors.”
Design and Modeling of Spoof Surface Plasmon Modes-Based Microwave Slow-Wave Transmission Line (2015, neutral): “Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TMTT.2015.2422694 observed at microwave frequencies on perforated conducting surfaces [3].”
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