What is it about?
There is a lot of talk about using phonons in polar crystals in mid-IR to replace free carriers in metals in order to attain high field concentration. We show it is not necessarily so.
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Why is it important?
First side to side comparison of different means of field enhancement in mid IR
Perspectives
Is there any use to phononics? Probably the answer is "Yes" but a qualified "Yes"
jacob khurgin
Johns Hopkins University
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This page is a summary of: Relative merits of phononics vs. plasmonics: the energy balance approach, Nanophotonics, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2017-0048.
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