The term magnetoplasmon, or magnetoplasma surface wave, was first introduced in the early 70’s, motivated by a renovated interest in surface plasmons in metals and degenerate semiconductors.Nowadays, the phenomenology associated to systems where plasmonic and MO properties coexist has become an active area of investigation. The so called magneto-plasmonic systems have opened new routes for the development for example of higher performance gas and biosensing platforms as well as the exploitation of non-reciprocal effects in devices with potential applications in the telecomunications area.

The authors acknowledge funding support from the EU (NMP3-SL-2008-214107-Nanomagma), the Spanish MICINN (“FUNCOAT” CONSOLIDER INGENIO 2010 CSD2008-00023, MAGPLAS MAT2008-06765-C02-01/NAN and PLASMAR MAT2010-10123-E) and the Comunidad de Madrid (“NANOBIOMAGNET”, S2009/MAT-1726 and “MICROSERES-CM”, S2009/TIC-1476, and JAE Doc fellowship for D. Meneses-Rodríguez).

Comunicación presentada en la NanoSpain Conference, celebrada en Santander del 27 de febrero al 1 de marzo de 2012.

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