Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Notations and acronyms
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Electrons and electromagnetic waves in nanostructures
- 2 Basic properties of electromagnetic waves and quantum particles
- 3 Wave optics versus wave mechanics I
- 4 Electrons in periodic structures and quantum confinement effects
- 5 Semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots)
- 6 Nanoplasmonics I: metal nanoparticles
- 7 Light in periodic structures: photonic crystals
- 8 Light in non-periodic structures
- 9 Photonic circuitry
- 10 Tunneling of light
- 11 Nanoplasmonics II: metal–dielectric nanostructures
- 12 Wave optics versus wave mechanics II
- Part II Light–matter interaction in nanostructures
- Author index
- Subject index
6 - Nanoplasmonics I: metal nanoparticles
from Part I - Electrons and electromagnetic waves in nanostructures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Notations and acronyms
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Electrons and electromagnetic waves in nanostructures
- 2 Basic properties of electromagnetic waves and quantum particles
- 3 Wave optics versus wave mechanics I
- 4 Electrons in periodic structures and quantum confinement effects
- 5 Semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots)
- 6 Nanoplasmonics I: metal nanoparticles
- 7 Light in periodic structures: photonic crystals
- 8 Light in non-periodic structures
- 9 Photonic circuitry
- 10 Tunneling of light
- 11 Nanoplasmonics II: metal–dielectric nanostructures
- 12 Wave optics versus wave mechanics II
- Part II Light–matter interaction in nanostructures
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
This chapter provides a brief introduction to optical properties of metal nanoparticles in terms of plasma-based optical response, interband transitions and size-dependent properties. The chapter is important for understanding contemporary research in nanoplasmonics including surface-enhanced emission and scattering of light near metal surfaces and nanobodies which will be the subjects of Chapter 16. Amazingly, nanoplasmonics is actually an ancient field of science and technology in spite of the fact that the notation for this trend in science only emerged just a decade or so ago. The first systematic studies of brilliant colors of dispersed metal colloids date back to Michael Faraday (1857). Purposeful applications of optical properties of metal nanoparticles are well known for example, to get colors in stained glass, which dates back to ancient Roman times. Gold and copper nanoparticles have been used routinely for decades in the glass industry in red glass production.
Prior to going through this chapter, it is advisable to recall the description of the dielectric function of a gas of non-interacting charged particles (Section 3.3) and the introduction to the electron theory of solids given in Sections 4.1–4.3. For a comprehensive description of optical properties of metal nanoparticles the books by Kreibig and Vollmer and Maier are recommended.
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- Introduction to Nanophotonics , pp. 166 - 198Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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