Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

Unrelenting plasmons

Worldwide research efforts on plasmonics and metamaterials have been growing exponentially for the past ten years. Will this course hold true over the next decade?

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Relevant articles

Open Access articles citing this article.

Access options

Rent or buy this article

Prices vary by article type

from$1.95

to$39.95

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Figure 1: Number of papers published per year in the fields of plasmonics (blue circles) and metamaterials (orange circles) between 1995 and 2015 (data taken from ISI Web of Knowledge, 2016).
Figure 2: Illustration of a particle-on-mirror plasmonic cavity strongly coupled to a single molecule placed within its (sub-)nanometric gap.

References

  1. Barnes, W. L., Dereux, A. & Ebbesen, T. W. Nature 424, 824–830 (2003).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  2. García-Vidal, F. J., Martín-Moreno, L., Ebbesen, T. W. & Kuipers, L. Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 729–787 (2010).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  3. Kress, S. P. J. et al. Nano Lett. 15, 6267–6275 (2015).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  4. Woessner, A. et al. Nat. Mater. 14, 421–425 (2015).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  5. Zhang, R. et al. Nature 498, 82–86 (2013).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  6. Novotny, L. & van Hulst, N. Nat. Photon. 5, 83–90 (2011).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  7. Lozano, G. et al. Light Sci. Appl. 2, e66 (2013).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Atwater, H. A. & Polman, A. Nat. Mater. 9, 205–213 (2010).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  9. Kumar, K. et al. Nat. Nanotech. 7, 557–561 (2012).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  10. Oulton, R. et al. Nature 461, 629–632 (2009).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  11. Kauranen, M. & Zayats, A. V. Nat. Photon. 6, 737–748 (2012).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  12. Clavero, C. Nat. Photon. 8, 95–103 (2014).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  13. Bardhan, R., Lal, S., Joshi, A. & Halas, N. J. Acc. Chem. Res. 44, 936–946 (2011).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  14. Hess, O. et al. Nat. Mater. 11, 573–584 (2012).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  15. Yu, N. et al. Science 334, 333–337 (2011).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  16. Vakil, A. & Engheta, N. Science 332, 1291–1294 (2011).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  17. Shelby, R. A., Smith, D. R. & Schultz, S. Science 292, 77–79 (2001).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  18. Pendry, J. B., Schurig, D. & Smith, D. R. Science 312, 1780–1782 (2006).

    Article  ADS  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  19. Hutchison, J. A., Schwartz, T., Genet, C., Devaux, E. & Ebbesen, T. W. Angew. Chem. 124, 1624–1628 (2012).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  20. Chikkaraddy, R. et al. Nature 535, 127–130 (2016).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding authors

Correspondence to Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez, Francisco J. García-Vidal or Luis Martín-Moreno.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Fernández-Domínguez, A., García-Vidal, F. & Martín-Moreno, L. Unrelenting plasmons. Nature Photon 11, 8–10 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.258

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.258

This article is cited by

Search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing