While surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has experienced substantial
advancements since its discovery in the 1970s, it is an opportunity to celebrate …

Active plasmonics is a burgeoning and challenging subfield of plasmonics. It exploits the
active control of surface plasmon resonance. In this review, a first-ever in-depth description …

Responsive optical nanomaterials that can sense and translate various external stimuli into
optical signals, in the forms of observable changes in appearance and variations in spectral …

Recently two emerging areas of research, attosecond and nanoscale physics, have started
to come together. Attosecond physics deals with phenomena occurring when ultrashort laser …

Metallic structures with nanogap features have proven highly effective as building blocks for
plasmonic systems, as they can provide a wide tuning range of operating frequencies and …

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are spatially confined electromagnetic field modes at a
metal-dielectric interface capable of generating intense near-field optical forces on ultrafast …

The applications of multiscale quantum–classical (QM–MM) approaches have shown an
extraordinary expansion and diversification in the last couple of decades. A great proportion …

Light-matter interaction in plasmonic nanostructures is often treated within the realm of
classical optics. However, recent experimental findings show the need to go beyond the …

Attosecond science is based on electron dynamics driven by a strong optical electric field
and has evolved beyond its original scope in gas-phase atomic and molecular physics to …

Plasmons, the electromagnetic excitations coupled with electron waves, possess the
intrinsic ability of manipulating light at subwavelength scales down to picometer. This ability …