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SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS FOR MICRO AND NANO-TEXTURING OF METAL SURFACES Paper (N105) Leigh Mellor, Stuart P Edwardson, Walter Perrie, Geoff Dearden, Ken Watkins Laser Group, Department of Engineering, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GH, U.K. non-radiative surface scattered waves are caused by the coupling of photons with electrons within a metal Abstract causing resonant oscillations which result in the propagation of a surface wave. Much work has been Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs) have been known carried out on the mechanisms at work here and since the late 1950s with the work of Richie [1]. Today detailed theory on SPP generation in metals can be most research with these surface waves is aimed at found in the literature [4-11]. production of subwavelength components in an attempt to merge the subjects of electronics and Recently, interest in laser surface texturing (LST) for photonics on a nanometer scale. However, the features the alteration of tribological properties has been produced by SPPs could have uses in direct growing. LST of metallic components has been shown engineering applications due to their surface texturing to give significant reductions of frict