Surface plasmons are coherent and collective electron oscillations confined at the dielectric–
metal interface. Benefitting from the inherent subwavelength nature of spatial profile, surface …

Molecular junctions are building blocks for constructing future nanoelectronic devices that
enable the investigation of a broad range of electronic transport properties within nanoscale …

Plasmonic metasurfaces, which can be considered as the two-dimensional analog of metal-
based metamaterials, have attracted progressively increasing attention in recent years …

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 …

Photothermal effects in plasmonic nanostructures have great potentials in applications for
photothermal cancer therapy, optical storage, thermo-photovoltaics, etc. However, the …

Solar-thermal technologies for converting chemicals using thermochemistry require extreme
light concentration. Exploiting plasmonic nanostructures can dramatically increase the …

Perfect absorbers (PAs) are devices that can realize the annihilation of incident
electromagnetic waves (EMWs) by eliminating reflection and transmission. Such engineered …

A new type of absorber, a four-tined fish-spear-like resonator (FFR), constructed by the two-
photon polymerization process, is reported. An absorbance of more than 90% is …

Along with the rapid development of micro/nanofabrication and characterization techniques,
as well as the advancement of electronic computer and numerical simulation algorithms …

Plasmonic metasurfaces with the photothermal effect have been increasingly investigated
for optofluidics. Meanwhile, along with the expanding application of circularly polarized light …