Metal nanoparticles (MNPs) hold great technological promise because of the possibility of
engineering their electronic and optical properties through material design. One of the …

The composite materials containing metal nanoparticles (MNPs) are now considered as a
basis for designing new photonic media for optoelectronics and nonlinear optics. We …

Optical glasses possessing large third-order optical nonlinear susceptibility and fast
response times are promising materials for the development of advanced nonlinear photonic …

The idea of exploring the bottom brink of material science has been carried out for more than
two decades. Clusters science is the frontmost study of all nanoscale structures. Being an …

In this contribution, we report synthesis of luminescent Ag nanoclusters (NCs, 1 nm average
diameter) directly conjugated to an enzyme, bovine pancreatic α-chymotrypsin (CHT). The …

Pd nanoparticles (NPs) were prepared by focused femtosecond laser irradiation of PdCl 2
dissolved in ethanol. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis revealed that Pd …

Copper nanoparticles are low-cost plasmonic materials with the ability of manipulating light
at the nanometer scale. The exploration of copper nanoparticles toward photonic …

Transparent glass samples doped with bismuth nanoparticles are prepared by heat
treatment of as-made glass samples. According to the results of X-ray diffraction …

We present the results of studies of the nonlinear optical properties of Pd, Ru, and Au
nanoparticles. We studied the nonlinear refraction and nonlinear absorption of suspensions …

We report the fabrication of waveguide amplifiers produced by RF-sputtering, using a PbO-
GeO_2 glass (PGO glass) film codoped with Er^ 3+/Yb^ 3+. RIB waveguides were obtained …