title: Conductivity and permittivity of two-dimensional metallic photonic crystals.
abstract: Two-dimensional metallic photonic crystals with different filling factors were manufactured and investigated by broadband terahertz spectroscopy. This technique allowed an independent determination of conductivity and dielectric permittivity in an extremely large dynamic range. Nearly ideal plasmonic behavior is observed for all compositions. Transmittance maxima are observed close to the plasma frequency and attributed to the longitudinal resonance. The plasmon frequencies agree well with existing calculations, while damping effects are underestimated by almost 1 order of magnitude.
authors.affiliation: Experimentalphysik V, Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, Universität Augsburg, 86135 Augsburg, Germany.
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authors.lastname: Pimenov
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authors.lastname: Loidl