Title :
On collisionless damping of surface plasmons
Author :
Yakovenko, V.M. ; Yakovenko, I.V.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Radiophys. & Electron., Acad. of Sci., Kharkov, Ukraine
Abstract :
The authors study the mechanism of collisionless damping of the surface plasma oscillations for an arbitrary character of the electron reflection from the media interface. The dependence of the decrement on a parameter characterizing the electron scattering process at the boundary was found. It is shown that the damping of the surface plasmons is caused by their transformation into Van Kampen waves propagating from the interface with particle velocity
Keywords :
permittivity; surface plasmons; Van Kampen waves; collisionless damping; electron reflection; surface plasmons; Damping; Distribution functions; Electrons; Equations; Permittivity; Plasma properties; Plasma waves; Plasmons; Reflection; Surface waves;
Conference_Titel :
Physics and Engineering of Millimeter and Submillimeter Waves, 1998. MSMW '98. Third International Kharkov Symposium
Conference_Location :
Kharkov
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5553-9
DOI :
10.1109/MSMW.1998.758983
