By Sergio G. Rodrigo

The universal trust is that mild is totally mirrored via metals. in fact in addition they express an grand estate that isn't so well known: less than a few stipulations gentle flows alongside a steel floor as though it have been glued to it. actual phenomena regarding those mild waves, that are known as floor Plasmon Polaritons (SPP), have given upward thrust to the study box of plasmonics.

This thesis explores 4 fascinating issues inside of plasmonics: impressive optical transmission, unfavorable refractive index metamaterials, plasmonic units for controlling SPPs, and box enhancement phenomena close to steel nanoparticles.

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The agreement between FDTD and CMM is good. As expected, it is better for silver than for the PEC case. However, notice that these calculations are conducted under the following approximation: the hole walls are considered as PEC even when SIBC operates. In order to overcome the latter, in Fig. 12 the hole side is actually widened as much as one skin-depth to mimic the penetration of the EM fields into the metal walls. A better solution consists in using the propagation constant of the real metal waveguide, as we will see in Chap.

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