In undergraduate courses on classical electromagnetism, it is taught that a perfect conductor
expels the electromagnetic (EM) field, and hence its surface is not able to support the …

Recent years have seen a rapid expansion of research into nanophotonics based on
surface plasmon–polaritons. These electromagnetic waves propagate along metal …

Graphene has shown great potential for high-speed photodetection. Yet, the responsivities
of graphene-based high-speed photodetectors are commonly limited by the weak effective …

Motivated by the recent emergence of a new class of anisotropic 2D materials, we examine
their electromagnetic modes and demonstrate that a broad class of the materials can host …

We investigate qubit-qubit entanglement mediated by plasmons supported by one-
dimensional waveguides. We explore both the situation of spontaneous formation of …

The unique optical and electronic properties of graphene make possible the fabrication of
novel optoelectronic devices. One of the most exciting graphene characteristics is the …

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are electromagnetic (EM) modes propagating along
metal–dielectric interfaces, in which surface collective excitations of free electrons in the …

Surface plasmons excited by light in metal structures provide a means for manipulating
optical energy at the nanoscale. Plasmons are associated with the collective oscillations of …

Advances in metamaterials have offered the opportunity of engineering electromagnetic
properties beyond the limits of natural materials. A typical example is “spoof” surface …

We have studied subwavelength confinement of the surface plasmon polariton modes of
various plasmonic waveguides and examined their relative merits using a graphical …