Metamaterials are rationally designed composites aiming at effective material parameters
that go beyond those of the ingredient materials. For example, negative metamaterial …

Plasmonic nanostructures possessing unique and versatile optoelectronic properties have
been vastly investigated over the past decade. However, the full potential of plasmonic …

The field of chiral inorganic nanostructures is rapidly expanding. It started from the
observation of strong circular dichroism during the synthesis of individual nanoparticles …

Molecular plasmonics, the area which deals with the interactions between surface plasmons
and molecules, has received enormous interest in fundamental research and found …

The refractive-lens technique has been well developed over a long period of evolution,
offering powerful imaging functionalities, such as microscopes, telescopes, and …

Despite the extraordinary degree of interest in optical metamaterials in recent years, the
hoped-for devices and applications have, in large part, yet to emerge. It is becoming clear …

The advent of negative index materials has spawned extensive research into metamaterials
over the past decade. Metamaterials are attractive not only for their exotic electromagnetic …

The spatial arrangement of plasmonic nanoparticles can dramatically affect their interaction
with electromagnetic waves, which offers an effective approach to systematically control their …

Metamaterials are artificial structures with the ability to efficiently control light‐field, attracting
intensive attention in the past few decades. People have studied the working principles …

One-dimensional wires are the most common building blocks in metamaterials. In this study,
zero-dimensional nanoparticles connected by tunneling networks were used to construct …