Colloidal particles show interaction with electromagnetic radiation at optical frequencies. At
the same time clever colloid design and functionalization concepts allow for versatile particle …

Colloidal photonic crystals (PCs) have attracted extensive interests because of their
excellent optical properties and advantages such as ease in preparation, cost‐effectiveness …

Ordered arrays of copper nanostructures were fabricated and modified with porphyrin
molecules in order to evaluate fluorescence enhancement due to the localized surface …

The optical properties of Ag-coated polystyrene nanospheres can be varied by changing the
vapor deposition angle θ. When θ< 55°, a sharp absorbance spectrum is observed, and for …

Discontinuous plasmonic‐3D photonic crystal hybrid structures are fabricated in order to
evaluate the coupling effect of surface plasmon resonance and the photonic stop band. The …

This paper reports the design and fabrication of an anisotropic Ag nanocavity array, which
mainly uses magnetron sputtering and ion beam etching techniques to get the ordered Ag …

The performance improvement of solid-state triplet–triplet annihilation-based photon
upconversion (TTA-UC) systems is required for the application to various solar devices. The …

Metal-coated microsphere monolayers (MCM) are a class of plasmonic crystals consisting of
noble metal films over arrays of self-assembled colloidal microspheres. Despite their ease of …

The enhancement of Raman scattering by localized plasmonic resonances has boosted
spectroscopic analysis down to the single-molecule level. Here, the simultaneous …

We demonstrated the usefulness of Cu light-harvesting plasmonic nanoantennae for the
development of inexpensive and efficient artificial organic photoelectric conversion systems …