Strong chiroptical effects recently reported result from the interaction of light with chiral
plasmonic nanostructures. Such nanostructures can be used to enhance the chiroptical …

Throughout the 19th and 20th century, chirality has mostly been associated with chemistry.
However, while chirality can be very useful for understanding molecules, molecules are not …

Interaction of light pulses of various durations and intensities with nanoscale photonic
structures plays an important role in many applications of nanophotonics for high‐density …

Recent advances in nonlinear optics, hot electrons for renewable energy (eg, solar cells and
water‐splitting), acousto‐optics, nanometalworking, nanorobotics, steam generation, and …

Photoconductive antennas are promising sources of terahertz radiation that is widely used
for spectroscopy, characterization, and imaging of biological objects, deep space studies …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-based cancer diagnostics is an important
analytical tool in early detection of cancer. Current work in SERS focuses on plasmonic …

Conspectus Rationally assembled nanostructures exhibit distinct physical and chemical
properties beyond their individual units. Developments in nanofabrication techniques have …

Multifunctional metasurfaces fusing multiple sets of plasmonic antennas within a single layer
open a new class of functional optical elements with superior integratability. Even though …

Nanomaterials find increasing application in communications, renewable energies,
electronics and sensing. Because of its unsurpassed speed and highly tuneable interaction …

The ultrafast‐laser‐matter interactions enable “top‐down” laser surface structuring,
especially for materials difficult to process, with “bottom‐up” self‐organizing features. The …