A review of surface plasmon resonance‐enhanced photocatalysis

W Hou, SB Cronin - Advanced Functional Materials, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In the past decade, the surface plasmon resonance of Ag and Au nanoparticles has been
investigated to improve the efficiency of photocatalytic processes. The photocatalytic …

A critical review on energy conversion and environmental remediation of photocatalysts with remodeling crystal lattice, surface, and interface

J Luo, S Zhang, M Sun, L Yang, S Luo, JC Crittenden - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Solar energy is a renewable resource that can supply our energy needs in the long term. A
semiconductor photocatalysis that is capable of utilizing solar energy has appealed to …

[HTML][HTML] The past, present and future of photonic glasses: A review in homage to the United Nations International Year of glass 2022

W Blanc, YG Choi, X Zhang, M Nalin… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the invention and further development of lasers in the 1960s, photonics has grown
into a field that permeates virtually every aspect of modern life. As photonics deals with the …

Advances in Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction with Water: A Review

S Nahar, MFM Zain, AAH Kadhum, HA Hasan… - Materials, 2017 - mdpi.com
In recent years, the increasing level of CO2 in the atmosphere has not only contributed to
global warming but has also triggered considerable interest in photocatalytic reduction of …

A review and recent developments on strategies to improve the photocatalytic elimination of organic dye pollutants by BiOX (X= Cl, Br, I, F) nanostructures

S Singh, R Sharma, M Khanuja - Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2018 - Springer
The main environmental problems associated with water body pollution are typically those
caused by the discharge of untreated effluents released by various industries. Wastewater …

High-order optical nonlinearities in plasmonic nanocomposites—a review

AS Reyna, CB de Araújo - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Composites consisting of metal nanoparticles (NPs) embedded in dielectric media may
present large nonlinear optical response due to electronic transitions in the NPs. When the …

Passively mode-locking induced by gold nanorods in erbium-doped fiber lasers

Z Kang, Y Xu, L Zhang, Z Jia, L Liu, D Zhao… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrated a passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser by using gold
nanorods as a saturable absorber. The gold nanorods (GNRs) were mixed with sodium …

An introduction to nonlinear integrated photonics devices: nonlinear effects and materials

L Sirleto, GC Righini - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
The combination of integrated optics technologies with nonlinear photonics, which has led to
the growth of nonlinear integrated photonics, has also opened the way to groundbreaking …

Gold nanoparticles as a saturable absorber for visible 635 nm Q-switched pulse generation

D Wu, J Peng, Z Cai, J Weng, Z Luo, N Chen, H Xu - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Gold nanoparticle (GNP) possesses saturable absorption bands in the visible region
induced by surface plasmon resonance (SPR). We firstly applied the GNP as a visible …

Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopic studies on the Impact of growth time on size, stability, and optical characteristics of colloidal gold nanoparticles

J Saroha, NP Lalla, M Kumar, SN Sharma - Optik, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Metallic gold (Au) nanoparticles (NPs) with an average size of less than 20 nm
exhibit surface plasmon resonance (SPR), which makes them intriguing candidates for …