The growing maturity of nanofabrication has ushered massive sophisticated optical
structures available on a photonic chip. The integration of subwavelength-structured …

Optical biosensors have exhibited worthwhile performance in detecting biological systems
and promoting significant advances in clinical diagnostics, drug discovery, food process …

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

Recent years have seen a rapid expansion of research into nanophotonics based on
surface plasmon–polaritons. These electromagnetic waves propagate along metal …

Laser science has been successful in producing increasingly high-powered, faster and
smaller coherent light sources,,,,,,,,. Examples of recent advances are microscopic lasers …

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have been studied extensively for over two decades for
their novel electronic, photonic, thermal, electrochemical and mechanical properties. This …

Optical sensors are widely used for refractive index measurement in chemical, biomedical,
and food processing industries. Due to specific field distribution of the resonances, optical …

Semiconductor nanowires, by definition, typically have cross-sectional dimensions that can
be tuned from 2–200 nm, with lengths spanning from hundreds of nanometres to millimetres …

Ten years ago, three teams experimentally demonstrated the first spasers, or plasmonic
nanolasers, after the spaser concept was first proposed theoretically in 2003. An overview of …

The field of plasmonics has become one of the most interesting and active research areas in
nanotechnology, enabling numerous fundamental studies and applications in a variety of …