IV-4 SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS at a METAL / DIELECTRIC INTERFACE

4.1     Mechanical model for describing optical excitations (Short version)                                                                                                                                                                        

4.2     Simple_model_for_the_electric_permittivity e-bound (Short version)                                                                                                                                                                        

4.3    Generalization_of_the_electric_permittivity_(bound-and-free-contribution)                                                                                                                                                        

4.4    The_complex_index_of_refraction (short version)                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

4.5    The electric  permittivity in different circumstances 

          4.5A  Case of Insulator Materials: Permittivity in the low, intermediate, and high frequency regimes                                                                                                    

          4.5B  Case: Permittivity of Conducting Materials Waves in a free electron gas media, and in metals                                                                                                       

4.6   SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS at  a    

          METAL/INSULATOR PLANE-INTERFACE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Additional applications

• Darrick E. Chang et al, "Single-photon_transistor using nanoscale surface plasmons," Nature Physics 3, 807 ( 2007)
  www.nature.com/naturephysics

Complement:  Summary about the Maxwell Equations