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Giant Surface-Plasmon-Induced Drag Effect in Metal Nanowires
Physical Review Letters (2009)
  • Maxim Durach
  • Anastasia Rusina, Georgia Southern University
  • Mark I. Stockman, Georgia State University
Abstract
Here, for the first time we predict a giant surface-plasmon-induced drag-effect rectification (SPIDER), which exists under conditions of the extreme nanoplasmonic confinement. In nanowires, this giant SPIDER generates rectified THz potential differences up to 10 V and extremely strong electric fields up to ∼105–106V/cm. The giant SPIDER is an ultrafast effect whose bandwidth for nanometric wires is ∼20THz. It opens up a new field of ultraintense THz nanooptics with wide potential applications in nanotechnology and nanoscience, including microelectronics, nanoplasmonics, and biomedicine.


Publication Date
October 26, 2009
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.186801
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Citation Information
Maxim Durach, Anastasia Rusina and Mark I. Stockman. "Giant Surface-Plasmon-Induced Drag Effect in Metal Nanowires" Physical Review Letters Vol. 103 Iss. 18 (2009) ISSN: 1079-7114
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/maxim_durach/16/