Oxides and nitrides as alternative plasmonic materials in the optical range. (arXiv:1108.0993v1 [physics.optics])

Oxides and nitrides as alternative plasmonic materials in the optical range. (arXiv:1108.0993v1 [physics.optics]): "
As alternatives to conventional metals, new plasmonic materials offer many
advantages in the rapidly growing fields of plasmonics and metamaterials. These
advantages include low intrinsic loss, semiconductor-based design,
compatibility with standard nanofabrication processes, tunability, and others.
Transparent conducting oxides such as Al:ZnO, Ga:ZnO and indium-tin-oxide (ITO)
enable many high-performance metamaterial devices operating in the near-IR.
Transition-metal nitrides such as TiN or ZrN can be substitutes for
conventional metals in the visible frequencies. In this paper we provide the
details of fabrication and characterization of these new materials and discuss
their suitability for a number of metamaterial and plasmonic applications.

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