What is a good conductor for metamaterials or plasmonics
Review article, 2015

We review conducting materials like metals, conducting oxides and graphene for nanophotonic applications. We emphasize that metamaterials and plasmonic systems benefit from different conducting materials. Resonant metamaterials need conductors with small resistivity, since dissipative loss in resonant metamaterials is proportional to the real part of the resistivity of the conducting medium it contains. For plasmonic systems, one must determine the propagation length at a desired level of confinement to estimate the dissipative loss.

conductors

metamaterials

optics

plasmonics

Author

C. M. Soukoulis

Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers (IESL)

Iowa State University

T. Koschny

Iowa State University

Philippe Tassin

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Condensed Matter Theory

N. H. Shen

Iowa State University

B. Dastmalchi

Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers (IESL)

Iowa State University

Nanophotonics

21928614 (eISSN)

Vol. 4 1 69-74

Subject Categories

Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

DOI

10.1515/nanoph-2014-0013

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