The discovery, design and development of materials are critically linked to advances in
many areas of research, and optics is no exception. Recently, the spectral region in which …

Optical metamaterials and nanoplasmonics bridge the gap between conventional optics and
the nanoworld. Exciting and technologically important capabilities range from …

Nanowires supporting propagating surface plasmons can function as nanowaveguides to
realize the light guiding with field confinement beyond the diffraction limit, providing …

Electro-optic modulators have been identified as the key drivers for optical communication
and signal processing. With an ongoing miniaturization of photonic circuitries, an …

Advances in opto-electronics are often led by discovery and development of materials
featuring unique properties. Recently, the material class of transparent conductive oxides …

Emerging telecommunication and data routing applications anticipate a photonic roadmap
leading to ultra-compact photonic integrated circuits. Consequently, photonic devices will …

As electronic device feature sizes scale‐down, the power consumed due to onchip
communications as compared to computations will increase dramatically; likewise, the …

The ongoing quest for ultra-compact optical devices has reached a bottleneck due to the
diffraction limit in conventional photonics. New approaches that provide subwavelength …

We propose several planar layouts of ultra-compact plasmonic modulators that utilize
alternative plasmonic materials such as transparent conducting oxides and titanium nitride …

This review provides a brief introduction to the physics of coupled exciton-plasmon systems,
the theoretical description and experimental manifestation of such phenomena, followed by …