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<strong>SMS</strong> Institute of Technology, L ucknow<br />

Department of <strong>Electronics</strong> & Co mmunication<br />

Plasmonics<br />

PLASMONICS is thought to repre<br />

sent the strongest points of both<br />

optical and electronic data tr ansfer.<br />

Optical data transfer, as in f iber optics,<br />

allows high bandwidth, b ut requires<br />

bulky "wires," or tubes with<br />

reflective interiors. Electron ic data<br />

transfer operates at frequencies inferior<br />

to fiber optics, but only requires<br />

tiny wires. Plasmonics, someti mes<br />

called "light on a wire," would allow<br />

the transmission of data at optical frequencies<br />

along the surface of a tiny<br />

metal wire, despite the fact that the<br />

data travels in the form of el ectron<br />

density distributions rather than photons.<br />

It is the fact that plasmonics have<br />

a great role in the green energy market<br />

economy by integrating with the<br />

existing PN junction solar cell by making<br />

it more absorbent of heat in all<br />

range of the frequency that co mes<br />

from the sunlight.<br />

Plasmonic, Nano particles of gold<br />

or silver.<br />

The main limitation to plasmonics<br />

today is that plasmon tends to dissipate<br />

after only a few millimeters, making<br />

them too short-lived to serve as a<br />

basis for computer chips, which are a<br />

few centimeters across. For se nding<br />

data even longer distances, th e key<br />

is using a material with a low refractive<br />

index, ideally negative, such that<br />

the incoming electromagnetic energy<br />

is reflected parallel to the surface of<br />

the material and transmitted along its<br />

length as far as possible. There exists<br />

no natural material with a neg ative<br />

refractive index, so nano stru ctured<br />

materials must be used to fabr icate<br />

effective plasmonic devices. For this<br />

reason, plasmonics is frequently associated<br />

with nanotechnology.<br />

ABOUT "PLASMON"<br />

The name plasmon derived<br />

from the physical plasma as a<br />

state of matter in which the a t-<br />

oms are ionized. At the lowest<br />

densities this means an ionize d<br />

gas, or classical plasma; but densities<br />

are much higher in a metal,<br />

or quantum plasma.<br />

Plasmon consists of discrete<br />

units known as plasmagenes. The<br />

extrachromosomal gene in plants<br />

was first described in 1908 by the<br />

German botanist.<br />

The plasmon energy for most<br />

metals corresponds<br />

to that of an ultraviolet<br />

photon. However,<br />

for silver, gold, the<br />

alkali metals, and a few<br />

other materials, the plasmon<br />

energy is sufficiently<br />

low to correspond to that<br />

of a visible or near-ultraviolet<br />

photon. This means<br />

there is a possibility of<br />

exciting plasmons by light.<br />

If plasmons are confined<br />

upon a surface, optical<br />

effects can be easily<br />

observed. In this case,<br />

the quanta are called surface<br />

plasmons, and they have the bulk plasmon<br />

energy as an upper energy<br />

limit.Surface plasmons were first proposed<br />

to explain energy losses by electrons<br />

reflected from metal surfaces.<br />

The plasmon is a quasiparticle. Its<br />

energy is approximately equal to L<br />

,<br />

where<br />

Saurabh<br />

EC - II year<br />

is the angular plasma (Langmuir) frequency,<br />

e and m are the charge and<br />

mass of the particles. The energy of<br />

a plasmon is determined from the characteristic<br />

energy losses sustained by<br />

electrons in metals: electrons passing<br />

through the plate expend energy on<br />

the excitation of plasma oscillations,<br />

that is, on the "creation" of plasmons.<br />

Another method of determining the<br />

38 <strong>Electronics</strong> <strong>Spectra</strong>, 2010

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