79362 20190709135712.0 doi 10.1038/nphoton.2016.258 sideral 97855 ART-2017-97855 eng Fernández-Domínguez, Antonio I. Unrelenting plasmons 2017 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Following 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 (...) info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 32.521 2017 PHYSICS, APPLIED 2 / 146 = 0.014 2017 Q1 T1 OPTICS 1 / 94 = 0.011 2017 Q1 T1 16.462 2017 Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials 2017 Q1 Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 2017 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion García-Vidal, Francisco J. (orcid)0000-0001-9273-8165 Martín-Moreno, Luis Universidad de Zaragoza 2003 395 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Física Materia Condensa. Área Física Materia Condensada 11, 1 (2017), 8-10 Nature Photonics Nature Photonics 1749-4885 252294 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/79362/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 85937 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/79362/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:79362 articulos driver 2019-07-09-12:56:01 ARTICLE