Quantum Nano-Plasmonics

ISBN-13: 9781108478397 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 320 str.

Poland) Jacak Witold A. (Politechnika Wroclawska

Opis

This step-by-step approach makes quantum theory of plasmons accessible to readers without specialized training in theory. Suitable for postgraduate students in the field of plasmonics, opto-electronics and photonics, and for researchers active in the field of photo-voltaics, opto-electronics, nano-plasmonics and nano-photonics.

Spis treści

1. Introduction and description of contents; 2. Physics of metals{preliminaries; 3. Quasiclassical description of plasmons in bulk metal; 4. Plasmon excitations in nanometer-size metallic particles; 5. Damping of plasmons in metallic nanoparticles; 6. Plasmon photovoltaic effect; 7. Plasmon-induced enhancement of efficiency of solar cells modified by metallic nanoparticles: material dependence; 8. Numerical simulation of plasmon photo-effect; 9. Plasmon-polaritons in metallic nanoparticle chains; 10. Plasmon-polariton kinetics in metallic nano-chain located in absorbing surroundings; 11. Plasmons in finite spherical ionic systems; 12. Plasmon-polaritons in a chain of finite ionic systems-model of saltatory conduction in myelinated axons; Bibliography; Index.