Publications by Eric Plum

Preprints

Some of the following articles also have preprint versions deposited at arXiv.org to be retrieved with this link.

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

  1. Metamaterial polarization spectral filter: Isolated transmission line at any prescribed wavelength
    N. I. Zheludev, E. Plum, and V. A. Fedotov
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 171915 (2011) - pdf
  2. Nanostructured plasmonic medium for terahertz bandwidth all-optical switching
    M. Ren, B. Jia, J. Y. Ou, E. Plum, J. Zhang, K. F. MacDonald, A. E. Nikolaenko, J. Xu, M. Gu, and N. I. Zheludev
    Adv. Mater. 23, 5540 (2011) - pdf
  3. Chirality and anisotropy of planar metamaterials
    E. Plum and N. I. Zheludev
    p. 94-157, in "Structured Surfaces as Optical Metamaterials", edited by Alexei A. Maradudin
    Cambridge University Press (2011) - link
  4. Reconfigurable photonic metamaterials
    J. Y. Ou, E. Plum, L. Jiang, and N. I. Zheludev
    Nano Lett. 11(5), 2142-2144 (2011) - pdf
  5. A combinatorial approach to metamaterials discovery
    E. Plum, K. Tanaka, W. T. Chen, V. A. Fedotov, D. P. Tsai, and N. I. Zheludev
    J. Opt. 13, 055102 (2011) - pdf
  6. Asymmetric transmission: a generic property of two-dimensional periodic patterns
    E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, and N. I. Zheludev
    J. Opt. 13, 024006 (2011) - pdf
  7. Multifold enhancement of quantum dot luminescence in plasmonic metamaterials
    K. Tanaka, E. Plum, J. Y. Ou, T. Uchino, and N. I. Zheludev
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 227403 (2010) - pdf
  8. Highly tunable optical activity in planar achiral terahertz metamaterials
    R. Singh, E. Plum, W. Zhang, and N. I. Zheludev
    Opt. Exp. 18, 13425 (2010) - pdf
  9. Spectral collapse in ensembles of metamolecules
    V. A. Fedotov, N. Papasimakis, E. Plum, A. Bitzer, M. Walther, P. Kuo, D. P. Tsai, and N. I. Zheludev
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 223901 (2010) - pdf
  10. Terahertz metamaterial with asymmetric transmission
    R. Singh, E. Plum, C. Menzel, C. Rockstuhl, A. K. Azad, R. A. Cheville, F. Lederer, W. Zhang, and N. I. Zheludev
    Phys. Rev. B 80, 153104 (2009) - pdf
  11. Extrinsic electromagnetic chirality in metamaterials
    E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, and N. I. Zheludev
    J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 11, 074009 (2009) - pdf
    [selected to be part of Journal of Optics Highlights of 2009]
  12. Towards the lasing spaser: controlling metamaterial optical response with semiconductor quantum dots
    E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, P. Kuo, D. P. Tsai, and N. I. Zheludev
    Opt. Express 17 (10), 8548 (2009) - pdf
  13. Planar metamaterial with transmission and reflection that depend on the direction of incidence
    E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, and N. I. Zheludev
    Appl. Phys. Lett., 94, 131901 (2009) - pdf
  14. Metamaterials: optical activity without chirality
    E. Plum, X.-X. Liu, V. A. Fedotov, Y. Chen, D. P. Tsai, and N. I. Zheludev
    Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 113902 (2009) - pdf
  15. Metamaterial with negative index due to chirality
    E. Plum, J. Zhou, J. Dong, V. A. Fedotov, T. Koschny, C. M. Soukoulis, and N. I. Zheludev
    Phys. Rev. B, 79, 035407 (2009) - pdf
    [Phys. Rev. B Editor's suggestion]
  16. Optical activity in extrinsically chiral metamaterial
    E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, and N. I. Zheludev
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 93, 191911 (2008) - pdf
  17. Giant optical gyrotropy due to electromagnetic coupling
    E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, A. S. Schwanecke, N. I. Zheludev, and Y. Chen
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 223113 (2007) - pdf
    [additionally part of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology 15(23) (2007) - link]

PhD Thesis

Conference Contributions

  1. (invited) Giant linear and nonlinear optical activity in metamaterials
    E. Plum, M. Ren, V. A. Fedotov, J. Xu, and N. I. Zheludev
    META'12, Paris, France, 19 - 22 Apr 2012
  2. (poster) Nano-electro-mechanical switchable (NEMS) photonic metamaterial
    J. Y. Ou, E. Plum, W. T. Chen, D. P. Tsai, and N. I. Zheludev
    SPIE Photonics Europe, Brussels, Belgium, 16 - 19 Apr 2012
  3. (poster) Metamaterial engineering of plasmonic metal luminescence
    M. Ren, G. Adamo, E. Plum, J. So, K. F. MacDonald, J. Xu, and N. I. Zheludev
    SPIE Photonics Europe, Brussels, Belgium, 16 - 19 Apr 2012
  4. (poster) From nonlinear optics to nonlinear plasmonics: giant nonlinear optical activity in a metamaterial
    M. Ren, E. Plum, J. Xu, and N. I. Zheludev
    SPIE Photonics Europe, Brussels, Belgium, 16 - 19 Apr 2012
  5. Compensation of plasmonic losses in metamaterial using nonlinear interactions
    M. Ren, E. Plum, J. Xu, and N. I. Zheludev
    SPIE Photonics Europe, Brussels, Belgium, 16 - 19 Apr 2012
  6. (invited) From nonlinear optics to nonlinear plasmonics: Giant nonlinear polarization effects in metamaterials
    E. Plum and N. I. Zheludev
    PQE-2012, Snowbird, Utah, USA, 02-06 Jan 2012
  7. Giant femtosecond optical nonlinearity of gold metamaterial nanostructures
    M. Ren, B. Jia, J. Y. Ou, E. Plum, K. F. MacDonald, A. E. Nikolaenko, J. J. Xu, M. Gu, and N. I. Zheludev
    Metamaterials 2011, Barcelona, Spain, 10-15 Oct 2011
  8. Nano-electromechanical switchable photonic metamaterials
    J. Y. Ou, E. Plum, L. Jiang, and N. I. Zheludev
    Metamaterials 2011, Barcelona, Spain, 10-15 Oct 2011
  9. (invited) Functional photonic metamaterials
    M. Ren, J. Y. Ou, B. Jia, E. Plum, J. Zhang, L. Jiang, A. E. Nikolaenko, J. J. Xu, M. Gu, K. F. MacDonald, and N. I. Zheludev
    IEEE Photonics 2011, Arligton, VA, USA, 09-13 Oct 2011
  10. (invited) Intrinsic and extrinsic chirality in metamaterials
    E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, and N. I. Zheludev
    PIERS 2011, Suzhou, China, 12-16 Sep 2011
  11. Tuning trapped-mode resonances in a planar metamaterial
    J. H. Shi, E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, and N. I. Zheludev
    PIERS 2011, Suzhou, China, 12-16 Sep 2011
    [PIERS Proceedings, 567 - 571 (2011) - pdf]
  12. (invited) Manipulating light with photonic metamaterials
    J. Y. Ou, T. S. Kao, J. Zhang, E. Plum, K. F. MacDonald, and N. I. Zheludev
    SPIE Optics & Photonics 2011, San Diego, CA, USA, 21-25 Aug 2011
  13. (invited) Ultrafast nonlinearities of plasmonic metamaterials
    M. Ren, A. Nikolaenko, E. Plum, and N. I. Zheludev
    SPIE Optics & Photonics 2011, San Diego, CA, USA, 21-25 Aug 2011
  14. (keynote) Reconfigurable Photonic Metamaterials
    J. Y. Ou, E. Plum, and N. I. Zheludev
    ICMAT2011, Singapore, 26 Jun - 1 Jul 2011
  15. Reconfigurable nanostructured photonic metamaterials
    J. Y. Ou, E. Plum, L. Jiang, and N. I. Zheludev
    CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2011, Munich, Germany, 22-26 May 2011
  16. Reconfigurable Photonic Metamaterials (RPM)
    J. Y. Ou, E. Plum, L. Jiang, and N. I. Zheludev
    CLEO/QELS 2011, Baltimore, MD, USA, 1-6 May 2011
  17. (invited) Nanostructured photonic metamaterials: functionalities underpinned by metamolecular interactions
    N. I. Zheludev, E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, N. Papasimakis, and S. Savo
    Villa Conference on Interactions Among Nanostructures, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 21-25 Apr 2011
  18. (invited) Metamaterials: novel functionalities and meta-molecular interactions
    E. Plum, J. Y. Ou, K. Tanaka, G. Adamo, A. Nikolaenko, and N. I. Zheludev
    UKIERI Workshop, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, 14-16 Apr 2011
  19. Multi-fold quantum dot luminescence enhancement in a plasmonic metamaterial
    K. Tanaka, E. Plum, J. Y. Ou, T. Uchino, and N. I. Zheludev
    NanoMeta 2011, Seefeld in Tirol, Austria, 3 - 6 Jan 2011
  20. (poster) Reconfigurable Photonic Metamaterials (RPM)
    J. Y. Ou, E. Plum, L. Jiang, and N. I. Zheludev
    NanoMeta 2011, Seefeld in Tirol, Austria, 3 - 6 Jan 2011
  21. Metamaterial optical diodes for linearly and circularly polarized light
    E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, and N. I. Zheludev; [presenter: K. F. MacDonald]
    Frontiers in Optics 2010, Rochester, NY, USA, 24 - 28 Oct 2010
  22. (poster) A combinatorial approach to metamaterials discovery
    E. Plum, K. Tanaka, W. T. Chen, V. A. Fedotov, D. P. Tsai, and N.I. Zheludev; [presenter: E. T. F. Rogers]
    Metamaterials'2010, Karlsruhe, Germany, 13 - 16 Sep 2010
  23. (poster) Asymmetric transmission as a generic property of periodically structured interfaces
    E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, and N. I. Zheludev
    Photon 10, Southampton, UK, 23 - 26 Aug 2010
  24. (invited) Intrinsic and extrinsic 2D chirality in metamaterials: an easy route to asymmetric transmission
    E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, and N. I. Zheludev
    Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications III, San Diego, CA, USA, 01 - 05 Aug 2010
  25. (keynote) Nonlinear and switchable plasmonic metamaterials
    N. I. Zheludev, A. Nikolaenko, K. F. MacDonald, V. A. Fedotov, D. Hewak, G. Adamo, Z. Sámson, E. Plum, D. P. Tsai, E. Difabrizio, and F. De Angelis
    Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS 2010), Xi'an, China, 22 - 26 Mar 2010
  26. (invited) Metamaterials - from modeling and fabrication to application
    N. I. Zheludev, V. A. Fedotov, N. Papasimakis, E. Plum, and J. Shi
    2009 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 30 Nov - 04 Dec 2009
  27. (invited) Metamaterials: the next photonic revolution
    E. Plum
    Marconi Society Annual Symposium, Bologna, Italy, 08 - 10 Oct 2009
  28. (keynote) Coherent metamaterials
    N. I. Zheludev, V. A. Fedotov, E. Plum, and N. Papasimakis
    Metamaterials 2009 Congress, London, UK, 30 Aug - 04 Sep 2009
  29. (invited) Tunable chirality in photonic metamaterials
    E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, X.-X. Liu, and N. I. Zheludev; [presenter: K. F. MacDonald]
    Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications II, San Diego, California, USA, 02 - 06 Aug 2009
  30. (invited) Mimicking EIT, BEC, ferromagnetism, the Mössbauer and the Bunn effects in photonic metamaterials
    N. Papasimakis, E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, and N. I. Zheludev
    ICMAT 2009, Singapore, 28 Jun - 03 Jul 2009
  31. Tuning chirality in photonic metamaterials with semiconductor quantum dots
    E. Plum, X.-X. Liu, V. A. Fedotov, Y. Chen, D. P. Tsai, N. I. Zheludev
    CLEO/Europe-EQEC, Munich, Germany, 14 - 19 Jun 2009
  32. (invited) Twisting the double-helix of light with metamaterials
    E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, and N. I. Zheludev
    Electrical, Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media (ETOPIM) 8, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, 07-12 Jun 2009
  33. Optical activity in achiral metamaterials
    E. Plum, X.-X. Liu, V. A. Fedotov, Y. Chen, D. P. Tsai, and N. I. Zheludev
    IQEC 09, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 31 May - 05 Jun 2009
  34. (poster) Chiral metamaterials with negative refractive index
    J. Zhou, B. Wang, E. Plum, T. Koschny, V. A. Fedotov, H.-T. Chen, A. J. Taylor, J. O'Hara, N. I. Zheludev and C. Soukoulis
    International Workshop on Electromagnetic Metamaterials III, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, 18 - 19 May 2009
  35. Gyrotropy in photonic metamaterials due to extrinsic chirality
    E. Plum, X.-X. Liu, V. A. Fedotov, Y. Chen, D. P. Tsai and N. I. Zheludev
    NANOMETA 2009, Seefeld, Austria, 5-8 Jan 2009
  36. Optical activity without chirality: a new way to negative index metamaterials
    E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, and N. I. Zheludev
    Plasmonics and Metamaterials (META), Rochester, New York, USA, 20 - 23 Oct 2008
  37. (poster) Negative refraction in 3-d-chiral metamaterial
    E. Plum, J. Zhou, J. Dong, V. A. Fedotov, T. Koschny, C. M. Soukoulis, and N. I. Zheludev
    Plasmonics and Metamaterials (META), Rochester, New York, USA, 20 - 23 Oct 2008
  38. (invited) Metamaterials enter the physics playground: from EIT to lasing spaser
    V. A. Fedotov, N. Papasimakis, E. Plum, S. L. Prosvirnin, and N. I. Zheludev
    Metamaterials 2008, Pamplona, Spain, 23 - 26 Sep 2008
  39. Asymmetric transmission through planar chiral photonic nanostructures
    E. Plum, A. S. Schwanecke, V. A. Fedotov, N. I. Zheludev, Y. Chen, V. V. Khardikov, and S. L. Prosvirnin
    IoP Quantum Electronics and Photonics Conference (QEP-18), Edinburgh, UK, 26 - 29 Aug 2008
  40. Optical magnetism in chiral metamaterials
    V. A. Fedotov, E. Plum, C. Soukoulis, and N. I. Zheludev
    META'08 NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Metamaterials for Secure Information and Communication Technologies, Marrakesh, Morocco, 07 - 10 May 2008
  41. Asymmetric transmission through chiral symmetry breaking in planar metamaterials
    E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, and N. I. Zheludev
    QELS, San Jose, USA, 4 - 9 May 2008
  42. 3-d-chiral metamaterial with artificial magnetic response
    E. Plum, J. Dong, J. Zhou, V. A. Fedotov, T. Koschny, C. Soukoulis, and N. I. Zheludev
    QELS, San Jose, USA, 4 - 9 May 2008
  43. (invited) Close-mode resonances in metamaterials and lasing spaser
    N. I. Zheludev, V. A. Fedotov, N. Papasimakis, E. Plum, and S. L. Prosvirnin
    Photonics Europe (SPIE Europe), Strasbourg, France, 7 - 11 Apr 2008
  44. (invited) Planar and layered chiral meta-surfaces
    V. A. Fedotov, E. Plum, A. S. Schwanecke, Y. Chen, V. V. Khardikov, S. L. Prosvirnin, and N. I. Zheludev
    Metamaterials 2007: First International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, Rome, Italy, 22 - 26 Oct 2007
  45. (invited) Plasmon resonances in photonic chiral metamaterials
    N. I. Zheludev, V. A. Fedotov, A. Schwanecke, E. Plum, N. Papasimakis, and K. Marinov
    Frontiers in Optics 2007, San Jose, CA, USA, 16 - 20 Sep 2007
  46. Metamaterials with giant optical activity
    V. A. Fedotov, E. Plum, A. S. Schwanecke, Y. Chen, and N. I. Zheludev
    CLEO/Europe-IQEC2007, Munich, Germany, 17 - 22 Jun 2007
  47. Enantiomerically sensitive plasmons
    V. A. Fedotov, A. Schwanecke, E. Plum, N. I. Zheludev, V. V. Khardikov, and S. L. Prosvirnin
    Surface Plasmon Photonics SPP-3, Dijon, France, 17 - 22 Jun 2007
  48. Photonic chiral metamaterials
    V. A. Fedotov, E. Plum, A. S. Schwanecke, Y. Chen, V. V. Khardikov, S. L. Prosvirnin, and N. I. Zheludev
    Photonic Metamaterials: From Random to Periodic, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, 04 - 07 Jun 2007
  49. Chiral photonic metamaterial
    V. A. Fedotov, E. Plum, Y. Chen, A. S. Schwanecke, and N. I. Zheludev
    QELS (CLEO/QELS 2007), Baltimore, MD, USA, 06 - 11 May 2007
  50. (poster) Giant microwave and optical gyrotropy in bilayered chiral metamaterials
    V. A. Fedotov, E. Plum, Y. Chen, A. S. Schwanecke, and N. I. Zheludev
    NANOMETA 2007, Seefeld, Austria, 09 - 11 Jan 2007

Selected Other Presentations

  1. Reconfigurable photonic metamaterials
    J. Y. Ou, E. Plum, and N. I. Zheludev
    MURI Annual Review, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 27 - 28 Oct 2011
  2. Intrinsic and extrinsic chirality in metamaterials
    E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, A. S. Schwanecke, and N. I. Zheludev
    University of Southampton & University of Cambridge Research Symposium, Southampton, UK, 2 Sep 2009
  3. (poster) Chirality and metamaterials
    E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, X.-X. Liu, and N. I. Zheludev
    FESM Graduate School Research Showcase 2009, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, 7 May 2009
  4. (poster) Chirality and metamaterials
    E. Plum, V. A. Fedotov, X.-X. Liu, and N. I. Zheludev
    ORC Colloquium, Optoelectronics Research Centre, Southampton, UK, 1 Apr 2009
    [poster competition: 2nd place (16 participants)]
  5. Chirality and metamaterials
    E. Plum, X.-X. Liu, V. A. Fedotov, and N. I. Zheludev
    Dept. of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., 7 Nov 2008
  6. (poster) Chiral metamaterials
    E. Plum
    International Review of UK Materials Research, Bristol, UK, 15 Jan 2008

Press Coverage

  1. Combinatorial approach optimizes metamaterials
    Newsbreaks
    LaserFocusWorld 46(10), (2010) - link
  2. Chirality-assisted negative index
    News and Views - D. Pile
    Nature Photonics 3, 133 (2009) - link
  3. Giving light yet another new twist
    Viewpoint - M. Wegener and S. Linden
    Physics 2, 3 (2009) - link
  4. "Mach dir einen Reim drauf!"
    Newcomer - Thilo Körkel
    Astronomie heute April, 58 (2004) - pdf