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Giant Surface-Plasmon-Induced Drag Effect (Spider) In Metal Nanowires, Maxim Durach, Anastasia Rusina, Mark I. Stockman
Giant Surface-Plasmon-Induced Drag Effect (Spider) In Metal Nanowires, Maxim Durach, Anastasia Rusina, Mark I. Stockman
Anastasia Rusina
Here, for the first time we predict a giant surface-plasmon-induced drag-effect rectification (SPIDER), which exists under conditions of the extreme nanoplasmonic confinement. In nanowires, this giant SPIDER generates rectified THz potential differences up to 10 V and extremely strong electric fields up to ∼105–106 V/cm. The giant SPIDER is an ultrafast effect whose bandwidth for nanometric wires is ∼20 THz. It opens up a new field of ultraintense THz nanooptics with wide potential applications in nanotechnology and nanoscience, including microelectronics, nanoplasmonics, and biomedicine.