Detection of nanoscale objects is highly desirable in various fields such as early‐stage
disease diagnosis, environmental monitoring and homeland security. Optical microcavity …

In recent years, the integration of graphene and related two-dimensional (2D) materials in
optical fibers have stimulated significant advances in all-fiber photonics and optoelectronics …

The application of gas discharge plasmas has assumed an important place in many
manufacturing processes. Plasma methods contribute significantly to the economic …

Gas sensors fabricated with nanowires as the detecting elements are powerful due to their
many improved characteristics such as high surface-to-volume ratios, ultrasensitivity, higher …

Mammalian photoreceptors aggregate numerous mitochondria, organelles chiefly for energy
production, in the ellipsoid region immediately adjacent to the light-sensitive outer segment …

Optical fibre nanowires and microwires offer a variety of enabling properties, including large
evanescent fields, flexibility, configurability, high confinement, robustness and compactness …

Micro-/nanofibers (MNFs) are optical fibers with diameters close to or below the wavelength
of the guided light. These tiny fibers can offer engineerable waveguiding properties …

With diameter close to or below the wavelength of guided light and high index contrast
between the fiber core and the surrounding, an optical microfiber shows a variety of …

Propulsive effects of light, which often remain unnoticed in our daily-life experience, manifest
themselves on spatial scales ranging from subatomic to astronomical. Light-mediated forces …

Micro/nanofibres (MNFs) are optical fibres with diameters close to or below the vacuum
wavelength of visible or near-infrared light. Due to its wavelength-or sub-wavelength scale …