Coinage metals, such as Au, Ag, and Cu, have been important materials throughout
history.(1) Although in ancient cultures they were admired primarily for their ability to reflect …

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are electromagnetic excitations existing at the interface
between a metal and a dielectric material. Remarkable progress has been made in the field …

Light-matter interactions can be controlled by manipulating the photonic environment. We
uncovered an optical topological transition in strongly anisotropic metamaterials that results …

Artificially engineered metamaterials are now demonstrating unprecedented
electromagnetic properties that cannot be obtained with naturally occurring materials. In …

Right after the first edition was published in 2007, I was invited to give seminars at a number
of universities in several countries. At that time, many people considered nanotechnology …

In the past few years, new developments in structured electromagnetic materials have given
rise to negative refractive index materials which have both negative dielectric permittivity …

Since the advent of quantum mechanics and the clear demonstration of the existence
of'matter waves', physicists have never failed to take advantage of concepts and theoretical …

The main directions of studies of materials with negative index of refraction, also called left-
handed or metamaterials, are reviewed. First, the physics of the phenomenon of negative …

It has been proposed that a planar silver layer could be used to project a super-resolution
image in the near field when illuminated near its plasma frequency [JB Pendry, Phys. Rev …

The coupling between light and collective oscillations of free carriers at metallic surfaces
and nanostructures is at the origin of one of the main fields of nanophotonics: plasmonics …