Active plasmonics is a burgeoning and challenging subfield of plasmonics. It exploits the
active control of surface plasmon resonance. In this review, a first-ever in-depth description …

When light interacts with metal nanostructures, it can couple to free-electron excitations near
the metal surface. The electromagnetic resonances associated with these surface plasmons …

Based on the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of metallic nanoparticles,
plasmonic nanosensors have emerged as a powerful tool for biosensing applications. Many …

The unprecedented ability of nanometallic (that is, plasmonic) structures to concentrate light
into deep-subwavelength volumes has propelled their use in a vast array of nanophotonics …

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

We propose an active plasmonic device based on graphene. Highly confined plasmonic
waves in monolayer graphene are efficiently excited using an etched diffractive grating on …

Nanosystems with combined magnetic and plasmonic functionalities have in recent years
become an active topic of research. By an adequate internal architecture of the constituting …

Ultrafast all‐optical switching, possessing the unique function of light controlling light, is an
essential component of on‐chip ultrafast optical connection networks as well as integrated …

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are spatially confined electromagnetic field modes at a
metal-dielectric interface capable of generating intense near-field optical forces on ultrafast …

We report a method for obtaining unity-order refractive index changes in the accumulation
layer of a metal-oxide-semiconductor heterostructure with conducting oxide as the active …