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PLASMONICS - STEFAN ALEXANDER MAIER GEBUNDEN

Considered one of the major fields of photonics of the beginning 21st century  plasmonics
offers the potential to confine and guide light below the diffraction limit and promises a new
generation of highly miniaturized photonic devices. Offering both a comprehensive introduction
to the field and an extensive overview of the current state of the art  Plasmonics:
Fundamentals and Applications should be of great value to the newcomer and to the experienced
researcher. The first part of the book describes the fundamentals of this research area 
starting with a review of Maxwell¿s equations in a form suited to the description of metals.
Subsequent chapters introduce the two major ingredients of plasmonics  surface plasmon
polaritons at metallic interfaces and localized plasmons in nanostructures. The mathematics of
their description  excitation and imaging of the modes are discussed. This part closes with a
presentation of electromagnetic surface waves at lower frequencies in the THz and microwave
regime  comprising both spoof or designer plasmons and surface phonon polaritons. Building on
the fundamentals  the second part discusses some of the most prominent applications of
plasmons: Plasmon waveguides  extraordinary transmission through aperture arrays  sensing and
surface enhanced Raman scattering  spectroscopy as well as metamaterials. Exemplary studies in
each of these fields taken from the original literature are presented.

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