Review article: Mechanism of resonant enhancement of gold- and copper-nanowires arrays

Abstract

Although second harmonic generations from gold- and copper-nanowires have been the subject of extensive studies, a complete understanding of the mechanism of the enhancement is still missing. The aim of review article is to address these issues by performing systemic studies of mechanism of the resonant enhancements between gold- and copper-nanowires in terms of surface reconstruction and relativistic effect, and implements these types of candidate for the potential applications in optical communications and optical devices. © (2014) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.