Aluminium plasmonics

Davy Gérard (1) , Stephen Gray (2)

1 LNIO - Laboratoire de Nanotechnologie et d'Instrumentation Optique
2 ANL - Argonne National Laboratory [Lemont]

We present an overview of 'aluminium plasmonics', i.e. the study of both fundamental and practical aspects of surface plasmon excitations in aluminium structures, in particular thin films and metal nanoparticles. After a brief introduction noting both some recent and historical contributions to aluminium plasmonics, we discuss the optical properties of aluminium and aluminium nanostructures and highlight a few selected studies in a host of areas ranging from fluorescence to data storage.

Keywords: surface plasmons; aluminium; nanostructures

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]; Micro and nanotechnologies/Microelectronics; Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Optics [physics.optics]; Physics [physics]; Condensed Matter [cond-mat]; Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]

Davy Gérard, Stephen Gray. Aluminium plasmonics. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2015, 48 (18), pp.184001. ⟨10.1088/0022-3727/48/18/184001⟩. ⟨hal-02291834⟩