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

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 detection of a few molecules in a highly diluted solution is of paramount interest in fields
including biomedicine, safety and eco-pollution in relation to rare and dangerous chemicals …

Optical computing has been pursued for decades as a potential strategy for advancing
beyond the fundamental performance limitations of semiconductor-based electronic devices …

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are electromagnetic (EM) modes propagating along
metal–dielectric interfaces, in which surface collective excitations of free electrons in the …

The efficiency of plasmonic nanostructures as optical antennas to concentrate optical fields
to the nanoscale has been limited by intrinsically short dephasing times and small …

Single emitters have been considered as sources of single photons in various contexts,
including cryptography, quantum computation, spectroscopy and metrology,,. The success of …

We show that the local electric field distribution of propagating plasmons along silver
nanowires can be imaged by coating the nanowires with a layer of quantum dots, held off …

Glucose photoreforming provides a promising alternative strategy for biomass valorization.
However, the use of harsh environment (high alkalinity or organic solvents) and low product …

We report direct coupling of plasmonic and photonic nanowires using ultracompact near-
field interaction. Photon− plasmon coupling efficiency up to 80% with coupling length down …