Solar cells are a promising renewable, carbon-free electric energy resource to address the
fossil fuel shortage and global warming. Energy conversion efficiencies around 40% have …

We review the basic physics of surface-plasmon excitations occurring at metal/dielectric
interfaces with special emphasis on the possibility of using such excitations for the …

Photon circuits are light conducting networks formed by joining several dielectric wave-
guide channels for the transmission of light. Their production utilizes the most advanced …

Metal nanoparticles and nanoshells consisting of metal shells and dielectric cores are
known to significantly enhance incident electromagnetic fields around themselves due to …

We present angle-and frequency-resolved optical extinction measurements to determine the
dispersion relation of plasmon modes on Ag and Au nanoparticle chains with pitches down …

Near-field interactions between plasmons and molecules are treated in a simple unified
approach. The density matrix of a molecule is treated with linear-response random phase …

In the frame of the long-wavelength Heisenberg model, a simple magnonic mono-mode
circuit is designed to obtain transmission stop (pass) bands where the propagation of spin …

A nanometal is a nanometric metallic structure. A plasmon is a collective excitation of an
electron gas. A plasmon polariton is a plasmon coupled to an electromagnetic wave …

The propagation and filtering of surface plasmon polaritons in metal–insulator–metal
nanosandwiches are investigated by using finite-difference time domain simulation. We …

This review is devoted to the studies of the optical properties of nanoparticles of Cu and
noble metals Au and Ag and nanoparticle systems. The response of such systems to the …