Surface plasmons (SPs) are coherent oscillations of conduction electrons on a metal surface
excited by electromagnetic radiation at a metal-dielectric interface. The growing field of …

This review provides a perspective on the recent developments in the transmission of light
through subwavelength apertures in metal films. The main focus is on the phenomenon of …

Owing to the size mismatch between light and nanoscale objects such as single molecules,
it is important to be able to control light–molecule interactions,,,. Plasmonic nanoantennas …

Metallic nanostructures now play an important role in many applications. In particular, for the
emerging fields of plasmonics and nanophotonics, the ability to engineer metals on …

The complementary optical properties of surface plasmon excitations of metal
nanostructures and long-lived excitations of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) make them …

Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals or quantum dots (QDs) are monodisperse crystalline
clusters with physical dimensions smaller than the bulk-exciton Bohr radius, ie, the distance …

Engineering the spectral properties of fluorophores, such as the enhancement of
luminescence intensity, can be achieved through coupling with surface plasmons in metallic …

Plasmonic-based chemical sensing technologies play a key role in chemical, biochemical,
and biomedical research, but basic research in this area is still attracting interest …

The large amount of light emitted from a light emitting diode (LED) being trapped inside the
semiconductor structure is the consequence of the large value of the refractive index. The …

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 …