Nowadays, starch nanoparticles (SNPs) are drawing attention to the scientific community
due to their versatility and wide range of applications. Although several works have …

The recently emerged field of Mesotronics provides novel opportunities for subwavelength
magnetic and electric field localization and giant enhancement by mesoscale dielectric …

Here, we applied direct laser-induced periodic surface structuring to drive the phase
transition of amorphous silicon (a-Si) into nanocrystalline (nc) Si imprinted as regular …

Herein, we report the theoretical investigation on the photonic nanojets (PNJs) of single
dielectric microspheres illuminated by focused broadband radiation (polychromatic light) …

Light-analyte interaction systems are key elements of novel near-field optics based sensing
techniques used for highly-sensitive detection of various kinds of targets. However, it is still a …

Label-free single-cell analytics have been developed for understanding the collective
immune response mechanism of immune cells. However, it remains difficult to analyze the …

Some new unusual physical phenomena and effects associated with dielectric mesoscale
particles with Mie size parameter near 10 were studied and have been discovered during …

A promising technique in optical super-resolution microscopy is the illumination of the
sample by a highly localized beam, a photonic jet (also called photonic nanojet). We …

The photonic nanojet phenomenon is commonly used both to increase the resolution of
optical microscopes and to trap nanoparticles. However, such photonic nanojets are not …

Here we demonstrate a novel sensor structure based on ordered arrays of dielectric
microstructures produced via CMOS-compatible technology. The microstructures are …