Surfaces with holes in them:: new plasmonic metamaterials

In this paper we explore the existence of surface electromagnetic modes in corrugated surfaces of perfect conductors. We analyse two cases: one-dimensional arrays of grooves and two-dimensional arrays of holes. In both cases we find that these structures support surface bound states and that the dispersions of these modes have strong similarities with the dispersion of the surface plasmon polariton bands of real metals. Importantly, the dispersion relation of these surface states is mainly dictated by the geometry of the grooves or holes and these results open the possibility of tailoring the properties of these modes by just tuning the geometrical parameters of the surface.