Recent years have seen a growing interest in using metal nanostructures to control
temperature on the nanoscale. Under illumination at its plasmonic resonance, a metal …

The past several decades have seen tremendous advances in metal nanoparticle research.
This field involves workers from many different areas, including materials scientists …

The lack of a detailed mechanistic understanding for plasmon-mediated charge transfer at
metal-semiconductor interfaces severely limits the design of efficient photovoltaic and …

Metal nanoparticles are excellent light absorbers. The absorption processes create highly
excited electron–hole pairs, and recently there has been interest in harnessing these hot …

With the recent advances of experimental techniques, the nonlinear ultrafast optical
response of metal nano-objects can now be investigated both on ensembles and on single …

This review focuses on the generation of energetic (hot) electrons in plasmonic
metastructures and nanomaterials, and their characterization through time-resolved …

The rapid emergence of nanoplasmonics as a novel technology has been driven by recent
progress in the fabrication, characterization, and understanding of metal‐nanoparticle …

We investigate theoretically and numerically the thermodynamics of gold nanoparticles
immersed in water and illuminated by a femtosecond-pulsed laser at their plasmonic …

The optical properties of metal nanoparticles have attracted wide interest. Recent progress
in controlling nanoparticles with atomic precision (often called nanoclusters) provide new …

The collective oscillation of free electrons at the nanoscale surface of gold nanostructures is
closely modulated by tuning the size, shape/morphology, phase, composition, hybridization …