Plasmons in graphene have unusual properties and offer promising prospects for plasmonic
applications covering a wide frequency range, ranging from terahertz up to the visible …

Thin-film materials, normally considered metals, can exhibit behavior that is very
nonmetallic. There is an increasing body of experimental information that this phenomenon …

Local electromagnetic field fluctuations and related enhancement of nonlinear phenomena
in metal-dielectric composites near the percolation threshold (percolation composites) have …

Light–matter interaction at the atomic scale rules fundamental phenomena such as
photoemission and lasing while enabling basic everyday technologies, including …

Surface‐plasmon polaritons are electromagnetic waves propagating on the surface of a
metal. Thanks to subwavelength confinement, they can concentrate optical energy on the …

Numerical field calculations have been employed to study quantitatively the wavelength-
dependent interaction of visible light with nanometric holes in metallic screens. Real metals …

Metal–insulator–metal (MIM) nanogaps in the canonical nanoparticle-on-mirror geometry
(NPoM) provide deep-subwavelength confinement of light with mode volumes smaller than …

Spectroscopies utilizing free electron beams as probes offer detailed information on the
reciprocal-space excitations of 2D materials such as graphene and transition metal …

We present tight-binding calculations in the random-phase approximation of the optical
response of Silicon nanocrystals (Si NCs) ideally doped with large concentrations of …

Nanocomposite films containing silver particles embedded in SiO 2 matrix were prepared by
high pressure (~ 40 Pa) dc sputtering technique in an argon plasma on fused silica …