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 69-74Subject Categories
Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
DOI
10.1515/nanoph-2014-0013