8. Plasmonic Materials

    8.1 Introduction

  8.2 Surface Plasmon Plaritons (SPPs)

  8.3 Particle Plasmons

  8.4 Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances (LSPR)

     8.4.1 LSPR can be supported by a wide variety of structures.

      8.4.2 The size effects                                   

      8.4.3 Particle shape is important too

      8.4.4 The Multipole (quadrupole and octupole) resonances

      8.4.5 The nanowires

  8.5 Propagating plasmons

  8.6 Localized / Propagating Systems

      8.6.1 Particles and Films

      8.6.2 Slit-Groove Modes

  8.7 Plasmonic Metamaterials    

      8.7.1 Plasmonic lensing – Sub-wavelength imaging    

      8.7.2 THz Plasmonics

  8.8 Further work