Active plasmonics is a burgeoning and challenging subfield of plasmonics. It exploits the
active control of surface plasmon resonance. In this review, a first-ever in-depth description …

Optical sensors are widely used for refractive index measurement in biomedical, chemical,
and food processing industries and offer high sensitivity to ambient refractive index …

Broadband electro-optic intensity modulators are essential to convert electrical signals to the
optical domain. The growing interest in terahertz wireless applications demands modulators …

The unprecedented ability of nanometallic (that is, plasmonic) structures to concentrate light
into deep-subwavelength volumes has propelled their use in a vast array of nanophotonics …

To keep pace with the demands in optical communications, electro-optic modulators should
feature large bandwidths, operate across all telecommunication windows, offer a small …

Nanosystems with combined magnetic and plasmonic functionalities have in recent years
become an active topic of research. By an adequate internal architecture of the constituting …

Considered one of the major fields of photonics of the beginning 21 st century, plasmonics
offers the potential to confine and guide light below the diffraction limit and promises a new …

The nitrides of most of the group IVb-Vb-VIb transition metals (TiN, ZrN, HfN, VN, NbN, TaN,
MoN, WN) constitute the unique category of conductive ceramics. Having substantial …

Photonic components are superior to electronic ones in terms of operational bandwidth, but
the diffraction limit of light poses a significant challenge to the miniaturization and high …

Long-range surface plasmon polaritons (LRSPPs) are optical surface waves that propagate
along a thin symmetric metal slab or stripe over an appreciable length (centimeters) …