Clean environment is essential to human health. The world is facing formidable challenges
in meeting rising requirement to clean environment. Recently, persistent organic pollutants …

Recently, one-dimensional (1D) ZnO nanomaterials (NMs) have been extensively studied
because both their functional properties and highly controllable morphology make them …

For many photonic applications, it is important to confine light of a specific wavelength at a
certain volume of interest at low losses. So far, it is only possible to use the polarized light …

Achieving control of light-material interactions for photonic device applications at nanoscale
dimensions will require structures that guide electromagnetic energy with a lateral mode …

Metal nanoparticles can be used as building blocks for the formation of nanostructured
materials. For the design of materials with specific (optical) properties, several approaches …

Aluminum is abundant, low in cost, compatible with complementary metal-oxide
semiconductor manufacturing methods, and capable of supporting tunable plasmon …

Strong coupling between localized particle plasmons and optical waveguide modes leads to
drastic modifications of the transmission of metallic nanowire arrays on dielectric waveguide …

In this paper, the electromagnetic interactions between noble metal nanoparticles are
studied by measuring the extinction spectra of two-dimensional arrays of Au and Ag …

Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes, there has been great interest in the synthesis and
characterization of other one-dimensional materials. A variety of inorganic materials have …

Strong polarization dependence is observed in the optical transmission through nanohole
arrays in metals. It is shown that the degree of polarization is determined by the ellipticity …