CEMES, CNRS-UPR 8011 1 article published in JoVE Engineering Evaluating Plasmonic Transport in Current-carrying Silver Nanowires Mingxia Song1, Arnaud Stolz1, Douguo Zhang2, Juan Arocas1, Laurent Markey1, Gérard Colas des Francs1, Erik Dujardin3, Alexandre Bouhelier1 1Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne CNRS-UMR 6303, Université de Bourgogne, 2Department of Optics and Optical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 3CEMES, CNRS-UPR 8011 Silver nanowires can simultaneously transport electrons and optical information in the form of surface plasmons. A procedure is described here to realize such a shared circuitry and the limitations at propagating both information carriers are evaluated.
