Abstract

Plasmons in structured metallic systems have attracted considerable attention over the last few years as promising candidates to realize plasmon guiding, plasmon amplification, and in general, optical components at the nanoscale. Examples of these systems are chains of nanoparticles, where <50 nm particles are coupled to guide their Mie-like plasmons and the small size of the particles is chosen to minimize radiative losses. Void cavities have been also investigated in the context of inverted opals.

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