Plasmonic Materials and Metastructures

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. This book is divided into two parts. In Part I, the fundamentals and emerging trends of plasmonic materials development is discussed including synthesis strategies (chemical and physical) and optical characterization techniques. Then, leading experts in the field address the 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 such as two-dimensional hybrid materials composed of graphene, monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, boron nitride, etc. In Part II, applications of plasmonic metastructures enabled by plasmonic materials with improved material properties and newly discovered functionalities are provided. Metastructures discussed in the book include metamaterials, metasurfaces, and epsilon-near-zero plasmonic metastructures. Applications reviewed include quantum plasmonics, topological plasmonics, chiral plasmonics, nanolasers, imaging (metalens), active, and integrated technologies. Plasmonic Materials and Metastructures: Fundamentals, Current Status, and Perspectives is suitable for scientists and engineers working in materials science and engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, and photonic technologies in general. Provides an overview of the materials properties, characterization and fabrication techniques for plasmonic metastructured materials Includes the key concepts and advances for a wide range of metastructured materials including metamaterials, metasurfaces, and epsilon-near-zero plasmonic metastructures Discusses emerging applications and barriers to commercial translation for quantum plasmonics, topological plasmonics, nanolasers, imaging and integrated technologies