Plasmon bands in periodic conducting heterostructures

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Abstract
A hydrodynamic approach is used to develop a theory of the collective modes of a periodic system consisting of alternate degenerate semiconductor or metallic layers characterized by different equilibrium densities. The plasma modes propagate within the low-density layers, but not in the high-density ones. Due to the periodicity of the system, the modes in different layers interact to form plasmon bands.