Plasmonic Materials and Metastructures

Fundamentals, Current Status, and Perspectives

1st Edition - August 31, 2023
Editors: Shangjr Gwo, Andrea Alù, Xiaoqin Li, Chih-Kang Shih
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 3 7 9 - 8
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9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 6 0 1 8 - 5

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Plasmonic Materials and Metastructures: Fundamentals, Current Status, and Perspectives reviews the current status and emerging trends in the development of conventional and alternative plasmonic materials. Sections cover fundamentals and emerging trends of plasmonic materials development, including synthesis strategies (chemical and physical) and optical characterization techniques. Next, the book addresses fundamentals, properties, remaining barriers for commercial translation, and the latest advances and opportunities for conventional noble metal plasmonic materials. Fundamentals and advances for alternative plasmonic materials are also reviewed, including two-dimensional hybrid materials composed of graphene, monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, boron nitride, etc.

In addition, other sections cover applications of plasmonic metastructures enabled by plasmonic materials with improved material properties and newly discovered functionalities. Applications reviewed include quantum plasmonics, topological plasmonics, chiral plasmonics, nanolasers, imaging (metalens), active, and integrated technologies.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
List of contributors
Preface
Section 1: Plasmonic materials—fundamentals and emerging trends
Chapter 1. Fundamentals of plasmonic materials
Abstract
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Surface plasmon modes
1.3 Growth and synthesis methods
1.4 Electronic band structure of plasmonic materials
1.5 Optical properties of plasmonic metals
1.6 Figures of Merit
1.7 Summary
References
Chapter 2. Plasmonic nanomaterials: noble metals and beyond
Abstract
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Chemical synthesis
2.3 Assembly
2.4 Noble metal plasmonic nanostructures
2.5 Alternative plasmonic nanostructures
2.6 Summary and outlook
References
Chapter 3. Low-loss plasmonic metals epitaxially grown on semiconductors
Abstract
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Low-loss plasmonic metals
3.3 Molecular beam epitaxy setup, and in situ characterization
3.4 Epitaxial growth of atomically smooth Ag film
3.5 Optical constant and surface plasmon polariton propagation length
3.6 The waveguide resonator at the telecommunication wavelength
3.7 Epitaxial Al film
3.8 Summary
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 4. Sustainable and CMOS compatible plasmonics
Abstract
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Optical properties of aluminum
4.3 Surface plasmon propagation lengths of aluminum films
4.4 Epitaxial film growth and nanocrystal synthesis
4.5 Applications of aluminum plasmonics
4.6 Summary
References
Chapter 5. Refractory plasmonic materials
Abstract
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Epitaxial growth of rocksalt TiN(111) films on sapphire
5.3 Optical properties of thick TiN(111) films grown on sapphire
5.4 Ultrathin TiN epitaxial films grown on sapphire: tunable electrical and optical properties
5.5 Refractory plasmonics for solar energy harvesting and optical sensing
5.6 Epsilon-near-zero application using ultrathin TiN epilayer
5.7 Summary
References
Chapter 6. Two-dimensional hybrid plasmonic materials
Abstract
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Properties of atomically thin materials
6.3 Controlling photon emission in nanophotonics structures
6.4 Enhanced light–matter interaction in hybrid transition metal dichalcogenide-plasmonic devices
6.5 Chiral photonics based on hybrid plasmonic materials
6.6 Outlook
Acknowledgment
References
Section 2: Plasmonic metastructures and device applications
Chapter 7. Near-zero-index metastructures
Abstract
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Physical realizations of near-zero-index media
7.3 Wave propagation in near-zero-index media
7.4 Unconventional eigenmodes and resonant cavities
7.5 Effective medium theories and photonic doping
7.6 Quantum light emission from near-zero-index media
7.7 Nonlinear optics in near-zero-index media
Acknowledgment
References
Chapter 8. Photonic spin-dependent wave shaping with metasurfaces: applications in edge detection
Abstract
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Spin-dependent splitting and arbitrary wavefront shaping
8.3 Spin-dependent edge detection
8.4 Extension of spin-dependent spin splitting and edge detection
8.5 Summary and future directions
Acknowledgment
References
Chapter 9. Integrated plasmonics nanocircuits
Abstract
9.1 Background and introduction
9.2 Resonance of plasmonic nanostructures and lumped element equivalent
9.3 Complete plasmonic optical nanocircuits
9.4 Plasmonic waveguides
9.5 Functional integrated plasmonic devices
9.6 Challenges and outlook
References
Chapter 10. Chiral plasmonics
Abstract
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Fabrication of chiral plasmonic nanostructures
10.3 Active and functional chiral plasmonics
10.4 Pushing the limit: single chiral plasmonics
10.5 Conclusion
References
Index

Shangjr Gwo

Shangjr Gwo received his PhD in physics from the University of Texas at Austin, USA in 1993. He is currently a distinguished chair professor of physics at National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and serves as the director of the Research Center for Applied Sciences in Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taiwan. His research interests include semiconductor material physics, nanophotonics, plasmonics, and surface/interface science. His research group works extensively on plasmonic metamaterials and metasurfaces, 2D materials, linear and nonlinear plasmonic metasurfaces, plasmonic nanolasers, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, and III-nitride nanostructure light-emitting devices. Shangjr Gwo is an elected fellow of the American Physical Society and the Physical Society of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

Affiliations and expertise

Chair Professor of Physics, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Andrea Alù

Andrea Alù is the Founding Director and Einstein Professor at the Photonics Initiative, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, St Nicholas Terrace, NY, USA. He received his Laurea (2001) and PhD (2007) from the University of Roma Tre, Italy, and, after a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin in 2009, where he was the Temple Foundation Endowed Professor until 2018. His research interests span over metamaterials, plasmonics, nano-optics, electromagnetics and acoustics. Dr. Alù is a Fellow of NAI, IEEE, AAAS, OSA, SPIE and APS, and has received several scientific awards, including the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from DoD, the ICO Prize in Optics, the NSF Alan T. Waterman award, the OSA Adolph Lomb Medal, and the URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal.

Xiaoqin Li

Dr. Xiaoqin (Elaine) Li received her PhD in physics in 2003 from the University of Michigan, where she worked with Prof. Duncan Steel. In 2007, she joined the University of Texas-Austin after working with Prof. Steven Cundiff as a postdoctoral researcher at JILA, Colorado. Her research interests include fundamental optical properties of individual semiconductor and metallic nanoparticles or assembled clusters, metasurfaces. Her group is broadly interested in fundamental and collective excitations in solids such as phonons, excitons, magnons, and plasmons in a wide range of materials and how these excitations couple to each other to enable new properties. Recently, her group has worked on the assembly and characterization of artificial plasmonic nanoclusters, ultrafast spectroscopy studies of exciton physics in atomically thin semiconductors, and controlling magnons in magnetic multilayers. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Affiliations and expertise

Fellow, American Physical Society, USA

Chih-Kang Shih

Chih-Kang (Ken) Shih received his PhD from Stanford in 1988. In 1990 he joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin where he currently serves as the Arnold Romberg Endowed Chair in Physics. He leads the Nanoelectronics and Quantum Dynamics Research Group which focuses on the quantum optical control of semiconductor nanostructures, the growth and characterization of superconducting nanostructures and atomically smooth epitaxial metallic films on silicon as a platform for plasmonics.

Affiliations and expertise

Arnold Romberg Endowed Chair in Physics, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA