Plasmon-assisted electrochemistry offers a new approach to deploy light energy for activating or powering electroconversions of utility the manufacturing chemicals and fuels. Plasmonic excitation boosts modulates electrochemical processes on plasmonic nanostructures. Nonthermal carriers produced by promote enhanced reaction kinetics even modes electrocatalytic activity not typically accessible ...

We consider a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of metallic nanoparticles, each supporting a localized surface plasmon, and study the quantum properties of the collective plasmons resulting from the near-field dipolar interaction between the nanoparticles. We analytically investigate the dispersion, the effective Hamiltonian, and the eigenstates of the collective plasmons for an arbitrary orien...

Tapered metallic grooves have been shown to support plasmons - electromagnetically coupled oscillations of free electrons at metal-dielectric interfaces - across a variety of configurations and V-like profiles. Such plasmons may be divided into two categories: gap-surface plasmons (GSPs) that are confined laterally between the tapered groove sidewalls and propagate either along the groove axis ...

Recent advances in chemical synthesis have made it possible to produce gold and silver nanowires that are free of large-scale crystalline defects and surface roughness. Surface plasmons can propagate along the wires, allowing them to serve as optical waveguides with cross sections much smaller than the optical wavelength. Gold nanowires provide improved chemical stability as compared to silver ...

We investigate the coupling of gap plasmons in various configurations of neighboring metallic nanowires. Starting with the basic element defining a gap plasmon, consisting of two neighboring silver wires, we study the energy splitting and symmetry properties of hybridized plasmons resulting from the interaction of two wire pairs. The system is shown to display non-avoided crossings of hybridize...

The unique optical characteristics of noble metal nanostructures have their origin principally in surface plasmon resonances. To exploit and design the unique characteristics arising from plasmons, an investigation of optical field structures adjacent to the nanostructure is of fundamental importance. As the spatial scale of the optical field structures is essentially smaller than the radiation...

Plasmons are fundamental collective excitations in many particle charged systems like in free electron liquid in metals, high energy nuclear plasma in solar core or in fusion devices, in ion gas in ionosphere or in intra- and inter-galactic gas clouds. Plasmons play a central role also in small systems, in particular in metallic nanoparticles and in their arrays allowing for subdiffraction ligh...

The interaction of light with matter has triggered the interest of scientists for long time. The area of plasmonics emerges in this context through the interaction of light with valence electrons in metals. The random phase approximation in the long wavelength limit is used for analytical investigation of plasmons in three-dimensional metals, in a two-dimensional electron gas and finally in the...

Colloidal quantum dots are robust, efficient, and tunable emitters now used in lighting, displays, and lasers. Consequently, when the spaser-a laser-like source of high-intensity, narrow-band surface plasmons-was first proposed, quantum dots were specified as the ideal plasmonic gain medium for overcoming the significant intrinsic losses of plasmons. Many subsequent spasers, however, have requi...