Driven by applications in chemical sensing, biological imaging and material
characterisation, Raman spectroscopies are attracting growing interest from a variety of …

The field of plasmonics has become one of the most interesting and active research areas in
nanotechnology, enabling numerous fundamental studies and applications in a variety of …

Nanoparticle technology plays a key role in providing opportunities and possibilities for the
development of new generation of sensing tools. The targeted sensing of selective …

Nanoscience includes the study of objects and systems in which at least one dimension is 1-
100 nm. The objects studied in this range of sizes are larger than atoms and small …

Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) spectroscopy of metallic nanoparticles is a
powerful technique for chemical and biological sensing experiments. Moreover, the LSPR is …

Optical sensors based on excitation of surface plasmons, commonly referred to as surface
plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors, belong to the group of refractometric sensing devices …

Demand for accessible and affordable healthcare for infectious and chronic diseases
present significant challenges for providing high-value and effective healthcare. Traditional …

Recent advances in the exploitation of localized surface plasmons (charge density
oscillations confined to metallic nanoparticles and nanostructures) in nanoscale optics and …

Surface plasmons (SPs) are coherent oscillations of conduction electrons on a metal surface
excited by electromagnetic radiation at a metal-dielectric interface. The growing field of …

In Chap. 1 by J. Homola of this volume [1] surface plasmons were introduced as modes of
dielectric/metal planar waveguides and their properties were established. It was …