1st Edition
Plasmonic Resonators Fundamentals, Advances, and Applications
Introduction
Plasma Frequency: Concept of Bulk Plasmon
Optical Constants in Metals
Metal–Insulator Interface Where Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs) Emerge
Brief Overview of the History
Numerical Methods
Nanofabrication Methods
Summary
Response Function Theory
Classical Model for Response Function
Quantum Mechanical Description for Response Function
Spectral Theory
Generalized Theory for Response Function
Summary
Plasmonic Resonators
Plasmonic Waveguides
Nanoparticle (NP) Plasmonic Resonators
NP-Assembled Plasmonic Resonators
Single-Layer Lattices
Collective Oscillation Associated with Longitudinal Component in Plasmonic Resonators
Plasmonic Resonators of Simply Stacked Structures
Plasmonic Resonators with Chirality
Plasmonic Resonators of Stacked Complementary (SC) Structures: Heteroplasmon Hybridized States
Perfect Absorbers
Summary
Nonlocality on Plasmonic Resonances
Nonlocal Responses in Far-Field Spectra
Nonlocal Responses in Near-Field Scattering
Optical Nonlocality in Plasmonic Resonators
Summary
Plasmonic Enhancement
Principles of Plas*
Purcell Effect
PlasPL
Surface-Plasmon-Amplified Stimulated Emission Resonators (SPASER)
Strong Coupling of Plasmons with Excitons and Other Resonances
PlasRaman
PlasCat
PlasNLO
Other Plas*
IR Emitters
Summary
Future Prospects
Status after Two Decades since the Era of Nanotechnology
Directions Being Opened
Challenges in Near Future
Concluding Remarks
Appendix A: Abbreviations and Symbols
Abbreviations
Symbols
Biography
Masanobu Iwanaga graduated from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1998 and received his doctorate from the same university in 2003. Since then, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Physics, Tohoku University. Now, he is affiliated to the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, which he joined in 2009.
