Nanowires supporting propagating surface plasmons can function as nanowaveguides to
realize the light guiding with field confinement beyond the diffraction limit, providing …

Advances in opto-electronics are often led by discovery and development of materials
featuring unique properties. Recently, the material class of transparent conductive oxides …

The emerging field of nanophotonics addresses the critical challenge of manipulating light
on scales much smaller than the wavelength. However, very few feasible practical …

We provide an overview of the way in which different approaches to nanostructuring metals
can lead to a wealth of interesting optical properties and functionality through manipulation …

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are electromagnetic (EM) modes propagating along
metal–dielectric interfaces, in which surface collective excitations of free electrons in the …

Emerging telecommunication and data routing applications anticipate a photonic roadmap
leading to ultra-compact photonic integrated circuits. Consequently, photonic devices will …

As electronic device feature sizes scale‐down, the power consumed due to onchip
communications as compared to computations will increase dramatically; likewise, the …

Polaritons formed by the coupling of light and material excitations enable light-matter
interactions at the nanoscale beyond what is currently possible with conventional optics …

Plasmon lasers are a new class of coherent optical frequency electromagnetic wave
amplifiers that deliver intense, coherent and directional surface plasmons well below the …

Waveguiding of surface plasmon-polaritons (SPPs) by a dielectric ridge placed on a metal
surface is analyzed using the effective-index method (EIM) and the finite element method …