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Plasmon Spectra of Nano-Structures: A Hydrodynamic Model

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In a seminal paper, published over half a century ago, R.H. Ritchie [1] used Bloch’s hydrodynamic model (HDM) of an electron gas (EG) [2] to describe collective, or plasma excitations by fast electrons in thin metallic films. Ever since, this model played an important role as a phenomenological approach, which often gave qualitatively correct and physically transparent results for many interesting surface and bulk phenomena [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]. With the advent of nanotechnology, interest in plasmon excitations at the surfaces of nano-particles and at the metal-dielectric interfaces grew over the past few years at an unexpectedly fast rate, forming an entirely new research area named Plasmonics [12, 13]. Even in these modern developments where surface plasmon excitations are studied by means of the currently most sophisticated ab initio methods, such as Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT) [14, 15, 16], the HDM continues to play an important role owing to its versatility in handling the often complex geometry and heterogeneous composition of nano-structures [15].

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The authors are grateful to all their collaborators who, over the years, have contributed to the results presented in this review.

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  1. Departamento de Electrónica, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, E-30202, Cartagena, Spain

    I. Villo-Perez

  2. Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, N2L 3G1

    Z.L. Mišković

  3. División Colisiones Atómicas, Instituto Balseiro and Centro Atómico Bariloche, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, 8400, Bariloche, Argentina

    N.R. Arista

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Villo-Perez, I., Mišković, Z., Arista, N. (2010). Plasmon Spectra of Nano-Structures: A Hydrodynamic Model. In: Bârsan, V., Aldea, A. (eds) Trends in Nanophysics. Engineering Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12070-1_10

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