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We start our discussion of the fundamental origins of plasmonics by considering the behaviour of electromagnetic waves in metals. Our approach in Sects. 2.1–2.3 largely follows those of Maier (Plasmonics: fundamentals and applications. Springer Science and Business Media, 2007, Maier (Plasmonics: Fundamentals and Applications. Springer Science and BusinessMedia, 2007) [1]) and Raether (Surface plasmons on smooth surfaces. Springer, 1988, Raether (Surface Plasmons on Smooth Surfaces. Springer, 1988) [2]). SI notation is used throughout.

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    Note that here \(\epsilon _0\) refers to the dielectric constant for the prism, not the electric permittivity of free space, to provide labelling continuity with the metal (\(\epsilon _1\)) and dielectric (\(\epsilon _2\)).

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Thomas, P.A. (2018). Plasmonics. In: Narrow Plasmon Resonances in Hybrid Systems. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97526-9_2

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