World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2013. — 355 p. — ISBN: 978-981-4350-65-5.This unique volume provides a broad introduction to plasmon resonances in nanoparticles and their novel applications. Here, plasmon resonances are treated as an eigenvalue problem for specific boundary integral equations and general physical properties of plasmon spectrum are studied in detail.
The coupling of incident radiation to specific plasmon modes, the time dynamics of their excitation and dephasing are also analytically treated. Finally, the applications of plasmon resonances to SERS, light controllability (gating) of plasmon resonances in semiconductor nanoparticles, the use of plasmon resonances in thermally assisted magnetic recording (TAMR), as well as in all-optical magnetic recording and for enhancement of magneto-optic effects are presented.Contents
Introduction
What are Plasmon Resonances?
Dispersion Relations
Overview of Book Contents
Modal Analysis of Plasmon Resonances in Nanoparticles
Plasmon Resonances as an Eigenvalue Problem
Dual Formulation
General Properties of Plasmon Spectrum
Plasmon Resonances in Nanoshells
Relation to the Riemann Hypothesis
Analytical and Numerical Analysis of Plasmon Resonances
Some Analytical Solutions for Plasmon Modes
Numerical Techniques for the Analysis of Plasmon Modes
Numerical Examples
Universal Numerical Technique for the Solution of Boundary Integral Equations
Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Finite-Difference Time-Domain Analysis of Scattering Problems
Radiation Corrections, Excitation of Plasmon Modes and Selective Applications
Perturbation Technique
First- and Second-Order Radiation Corrections
Analysis of Extinction Cross Section
Coupling of Plasmon Modes to Incident Radiation, Time-Dynamics of Their Excitation and Dephasing
Selective Applications of Plasmon Resonances
