Graphene, since the demonstration of its easy isolation by the exfoliation of graphite in 2004
by Novoselov, Geim and co-workers, has been attracting enormous attention in the scientific …

Graphene-like materials could be used in the fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic
devices, gas sensors, biosensors, and batteries for energy storage. Since it is almost …

Optical antennas are an emerging concept in physical optics. Similar to radiowave and
microwave antennas, their purpose is to convert the energy of free propagating radiation to …

Double‐walled carbon nanotubes are between single‐walled carbon nanotubes and
multiwalled carbon nanotubes. They are comparable to single‐walled carbon nanotubes …

This consistent and systematic review of recent advances in optical antenna theory and
practice brings together leading experts in the fields of electrical engineering, nano-optics …

Optical microscopy, the simultaneous acquisition of spectroscopic and spatial information
using light, forms the basis of many natural sciences. In this chapter, we review a novel …

This article reviews recent advances on the use of Raman spectroscopy to study and
characterize carbon nanostructures. It starts with a brief survey of Raman spectroscopy of …

Abstract Photoluminescence (PL), a photo-excited spontaneous emission process, provides
a wealth of optical and electronic properties of materials, which enable microscopic and …

Raman spectroscopy is a powerful tool to characterize the different types of sp2 carbon
nanostructures, including two‐dimensional graphene, one‐dimensional nanotubes, and the …

Tip-enhanced near-field optical microscopy (TENOM) is a scanning probe technique
capable of providing a broad range of spectroscopic information on single objects and …