This review discusses how low-energy valence excitations created by swift electrons can
render information on the optical response of structured materials with unmatched spatial …

The jellium model of simple metal clusters has enjoyed remarkable empirical success,
leading to many theoretical questions. In this review, we first survey the hierarchy of …

The elegant theory developed by Förster to describe the rate of fluorescence resonance
energy transfer between a donor and an acceptor has played a key role in understanding …

A quantum mechanical theory of the rate of excitation energy transfer from a fluorescent dye
molecule to the surface plasmonic modes of a spherical metal nanoparticle is presented …

The interaction between light and plasmonic systems with deep‐nanometer characteristics,
which is essentially governed by quantum mechanical effects, has been extensively studied …

Plasmon oscillation is a collective excitation of electrons in a valence band of a solid
material. The motion and polarization of valence electrons under the impact of a fast moving …

New general results on the self-energy of fast electrons interacting with metal surfaces are
presented with emphasis on the energy-loss problem in electron microscopy. Some …

The size evolution of the surface plasmon resonance was investigated for free and
embedded silver particles between about 2 to 10 nm in size. The crystal lattice of such …

The excitation of bulk and surface plasmons in small metallic spheres is studied by means of
electron loss spectroscopy in a scanning transmission electron microscope. The results are …

Physical mechanisms of structural transformations in deposited metallic clusters exposed to
an electron beam of a transmission electron microscope (TEM) are studied theoretically and …