Optical Surface Plasmons in Semiconductors

Abstract

A theoretical treatment is presented of a plasmonic interaction at an interface between a semiconductor and a dielectric, as opposed to the more traditional configuration whereby a metal/dielectric interface is investigated. Our work is to show that structures using semiconductors instead of metal to excite surface plasmon can support not only terahertz frequencies plasmons but also optical frequency (around 10 to power of 15 Hz) plasmons.