Plasmonics: Fundamentals and Applications

I am currently a physics faculty in India, interested in the field of plasmonics. I found this book useful as an introduction to the subject. The first two chapters give the basic theory. The third chapter discusses techniques for exciting surface plasmon polaritons at planar interfaces.Chapter 5 discusses localized surface plasmons. The second part describes applications, e.g. plasmon waveguides, enhancement of emissive processes, etc. There is a good bit of physical insight in the different phenomena discussed. The text is a bit fast-paced for a beginner. There is an exhaustive list of references. This book compares well with another one discussing an identical topic: "Modern Introduction to surface Plasmons : Theory, Mathematica modeling and applications", by Dror Sarid and William Challener (Cambridge University Press, 2010), which is more detailed, with online supplementary Mathematica codes.

I didn't know anything about plasmonics when I started the course in which we use this text. Therefore, I have trouble recommending it over another, but it seems to approach the material at an appropriate level for a first course. All I can say is you better brush up on your EM and wave physics before diving in; this text doesn't spend much time on refreshing your memory.

I really like the book. The content can sometimes be a bit cursory and the author tries to include a lot of information into a small book, but definitely one of the better textbooks on the subject. Would highly recommend for new researchers in the area or for the advanced undergrad or early graduate student dealing with this sort of content.

Given there is not much literature on the subject matter outside of published papers that I have found. Still the book is extremely well written, works through the rigorous math but explains the main points in very good details where you don't fully need to understand the math to have a general understanding of the subject. Highly recommend it.

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This is a good book in a not so common topic. But the price is too much as usual for springer books for the amount of information.

This book is divided into two parts theory and applications. The book does a terrible job with both. For starters, plasmonics requires a serious discussion about the Drude and Lorentz models, as well as polarization. The author breezily skims through the theory, subsisting on pretty pictures and lots of graphs that kind of sit lonely on the page waiting for some kind of deeper explanation. When the author's theory-lite does not do, no problem, just add terms ad hoc to the formulas. Inexplicably, when the author does spend time on the theory, it is of the most banal and basic type, such as deriving the modes for a resonator. The applications part is no better. The chapters feel like journal articles - the type that report results but don't provide nearly enough details for carrying out the experiment and theory yourself. You are far far better off reading many of the original articles than wasting the going list price on this book.

I looked through the first four chapters of this book, and I find it clear-written. It is very helpful for a beginner in the plasmonics field.

El contenido es bueno para un texto en en esta área, como su nombre advierte se trata de una introducción muy bien desarrollada para mi punto de vista, no obstante, la calidad del papel de impresión es pésima para el costo de este ejemplar, asimismo, la versión digital tiene algunas figuras y gráficas en color y éste sólo blanco y negro.

I recommend this book as the first one for students and researchers who begin learning plasmonics. Although several applications in later chapters might be outdated, the first some chapters detail the basics of plasmonics in both mathematical and physical aspects. I hope the recent developments (2010's) in the field are included in the next revision if possible.