Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Phonons play a key role in the physical properties of materials, and have long been a topic
of study in physics. While the effects of phonons had historically been considered to be a …

Plasmonic nanoantennas have proven to be efficient transducers of electromagnetic to
mechanical energy and vice versa. The sudden thermal expansion of these structures after …

Nanomechanics, nanoacoustics, and nanophononics refer to the engineering of acoustic
phonons and elastic waves at the nanoscale and their interactions with other excitations …

Converted into mechanical nanoresonators after optical pulsed excitation and electron
decay into coherent acoustic phonons, plasmonic nanoantennas produce a periodic …

Plasmonic coupling between adjacent metallic nanoparticles can be exploited for acousto-
plasmonics, single-molecule sensing, and photochemistry. Light absorption or electron …

Coherent acoustic vibrations of nanoresonators have attracted considerable attention, owing
to their rich phonon spectra. Understanding and manipulating coherent acoustic vibrational …

Ultrahigh-frequency acoustic-phonon resonators usually require atomically flat interfaces to
avoid phonon scattering and dephasing, leading to expensive fabrication processes, such …

The emergence and rapid progress of all-dielectric nanoantennas have provided
unprecedented platforms for applications in sensing, optical control of light, opto-mechanics …

Nanostructured high-index dielectrics have shown great promise as low-loss photonic
platforms for wavefront control and enhancing optical nonlinearities. However, their potential …