Recent years have seen a rapid expansion of research into nanophotonics based on
surface plasmon–polaritons. These electromagnetic waves propagate along metal …

Conventional laboratory techniques exhibit impressive sensing performance and still
constitute an irreplaceable tool in bioanalytics. Nevertheless, high costs, time consumption …

The light-matter interaction can be utilized to qualitatively alter physical properties of
materials. Recent theoretical and experimental studies have explored this possibility of …

Control over light absorption and emission using plasmonic nanostructures is an enabling
technology, which can dramatically enhance the performances of existing optical and …

We demonstrate lasing in Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) waveguides filled with electrically
pumped semiconductor cores, with core width dimensions below the diffraction limit …

Surface-plasmon-mediated confinement of optical fields holds great promise for on-chip
miniaturization of all-optical circuits,,,. Following successful demonstrations of passive …

The assembly of hybrid nanophotonic devices from different fundamental photonic entities—
such as single molecules, nanocrystals, semiconductor quantum dots, nanowires and metal …

Surface plasmons are collective oscillations of free electrons localized at surfaces of
structures made of metals. Since the surface plasmons induce fluctuations of electric charge …

We demonstrate the ultrafast generation of electrons from tailored metallic nanoparticles and
unravel the role of plasmonic field enhancement in this process by comparing resonant and …

The miniaturization of electronic and photonic device technologies has facilitated
information processing and transport at ever-increasing speeds and decreasing power …