Evaluating Plasmonic Transport in Current-carrying Silver NanowiresMingxia Song 1, Arnaud Stolz 1, Douguo Zhang 2, Juan Arocas 1, Laurent Markey 1, Gérard Colas des Francs 1, Erik Dujardin 3, Alexandre Bouhelier 1
1Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne CNRS-UMR 6303, Université de Bourgogne, 2Department of Optics and Optical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 3CEMES, CNRS-UPR 8011
Silver nanowires can simultaneously transport electrons and optical information in the form of surface plasmons. A procedure is described here to realize such a shared circuitry and the limitations at propagating both information carriers are evaluated.
