000079362 001__ 79362 000079362 005__ 20190709135712.0 000079362 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1038/nphoton.2016.258 000079362 0248_ $$2sideral$$a97855 000079362 037__ $$aART-2017-97855 000079362 041__ $$aeng 000079362 100__ $$aFernández-Domínguez, Antonio I. 000079362 245__ $$aUnrelenting plasmons 000079362 260__ $$c2017 000079362 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000079362 5203_ $$aFollowing a brief historic introduction to plasmons, their useful properties and early applications, we highlight some of the key advances in the field over the past decade. We then discuss new directions for the future, such as the use of 2D materials and strong coupling phenomena, which are likely to shape the field over the next ten years. For centuries, metals were employed in optical applications only as mirrors and gratings. New vistas opened up in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the discovery of surface-enhanced Raman scattering and the use of surface plasmon (SP) resonances for sensing. However, it was not until the 1990s, with the appearance of accurate and reliable nanofabrication techniques, that plasmonics blossomed1. Initially, the attention focused on the exploitation of SPs (collective electronic oscillations at the surface of metals) for sensing, subwavelength waveguiding and extraordinary optical transmission2. Since then, the scientific and technological interest in SPs has expanded. Correspondingly, as illustrated in Fig. 1, the number of publications in the field has increased in a steady exponential fashion for more than two decades, and the momentum driving plasmonics research looks set to continue (...) 000079362 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aAll rights reserved$$uhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 000079362 590__ $$a32.521$$b2017 000079362 591__ $$aPHYSICS, APPLIED$$b2 / 146 = 0.014$$c2017$$dQ1$$eT1 000079362 591__ $$aOPTICS$$b1 / 94 = 0.011$$c2017$$dQ1$$eT1 000079362 592__ $$a16.462$$b2017 000079362 593__ $$aElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials$$c2017$$dQ1 000079362 593__ $$aAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics$$c2017$$dQ1 000079362 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 000079362 700__ $$aGarcía-Vidal, Francisco J. 000079362 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-9273-8165$$aMartín-Moreno, Luis$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000079362 7102_ $$12003$$2395$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Física Materia Condensa.$$cÁrea Física Materia Condensada 000079362 773__ $$g11, 1 (2017), 8-10$$pNature Photonics$$tNature Photonics$$x1749-4885 000079362 8564_ $$s252294$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/79362/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yPostprint 000079362 8564_ $$s85937$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/79362/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yPostprint 000079362 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:79362$$particulos$$pdriver 000079362 951__ $$a2019-07-09-12:56:01 000079362 980__ $$aARTICLE