Semiconductors for plasmonics and metamaterials

Metallic metamaterials and plasmonics.

Our ability to control and harness light is undergoing a revolution, one that exploits the special properties of metals and our ability to structure them on a subwavelength scale. The materials that enable such control involve plasmonic and metallic metamaterials, materials that provide challenges for physicists and engineers that demand a multi-disciplinary approach. In June 2010, Alastair Hib...

Graphene plasmonics for tunable terahertz metamaterials.

Plasmons describe collective oscillations of electrons. They have a fundamental role in the dynamic responses of electron systems and form the basis of research into optical metamaterials. Plasmons of two-dimensional massless electrons, as present in graphene, show unusual behaviour that enables new tunable plasmonic metamaterials and, potentially, optoelectronic applications in the terahertz f...

Unusual Resonators: Plasmonics, Metamaterials, and Random Media

Konstantin Y. Bliokh, 2 Yury P. Bliokh, 3 Valentin Freilikher, Sergey Savel’ev, 5 and Franco Nori 6 Frontier Research System, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan Institute of Radio Astronomy, 4 Krasnoznamyonnaya St., Kharkov 61002, Ukraine Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel Department of Phys...

How to deal with the loss in plasmonics and metamaterials.

The past decade and a half has seen a steady rise of interest in plasmonics and metamaterials (P&M), a duo of closely related fields. The inspiration driving P&M research is the enticing prospect of concentrating and manipulating the electromagnetic field on the subwavelength scale to achieve unprecedented enhancement of linear and nonlinear optical processes, and to develop nanoscale optical i...

Reflecting upon the losses in plasmonics and metamaterials