Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a vibrational spectroscopy technique
with sensitivity down to the single molecule level that provides fine molecular fingerprints …

Optical metasurfaces with subwavelength thickness hold considerable promise for future
advances in fundamental optics and novel optical applications due to their unprecedented …

When metal nanoparticles are arranged in an ordered array, they may scatter light to
produce diffracted waves. If one of the diffracted waves then propagates in the plane of the …

Materials research plays a vital role in transforming breakthrough scientific ideas into next‐
generation technology. Similar to the way silicon revolutionized the microelectronics …

Janus transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are emerging as special 2D materials with
different chalcogen atoms covalently bonded on each side of the unit cell, resulting in …

Control over faceting in nanocrystals (NCs) is pivotal for many applications, but most notably
when investigating catalytic reactions which occur on the surfaces of nanostructures …

Transparent conducting oxides have recently gained great attention as CMOS-compatible
materials for applications in nanophotonics due to their low optical loss, metal-like behavior …

Plasmonics is a research area merging the fields of optics and nanoelectronics by confining
light with relatively large free‐space wavelength to the nanometer scale‐thereby enabling a …

All-optical control of plasmons can enable optical switches with high speeds, small footprints
and high on/off ratios. Here we demonstrate ultrafast plasmon modulation in the near …

Fiber optic sensors based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) have demonstrated
outstanding performance in biomedical, environmental monitoring, public safety, and other …