Nanostructured materials have gained immense attraction because of their extraordinary
properties compared to the bulk materials to be used in a plethora of applications in myriad …

Metal, metal oxide, and metal chalcogenide materials have a wide variety of applications.
For example, many metal clusters and nanoparticles are used as catalysts for reactions …

Plasmon–emitter interactions are of central importance in modern nanoplasmonics and are
generally maximal at short emitter–surface separations. However, when the separation falls …

Bimetallic nanoparticles (often known as nanoalloys) with core-shell arrangement are of
special interest in several applications, such as in optics, catalysis, magnetism, and …

Nanoalloys are bi-or multi-component metallic particles in the size range between 1 and 100
nm. Nanoalloys present a wide variety of structures and properties, which make them …

Electronic excitations can be efficiently analyzed in terms of the underlying Kohn–Sham (KS)
electron–hole transitions. While such a decomposition is readily available in the linear …

The classical treatment of plasmonics is insufficient at the nanometer-scale due to quantum
mechanical surface phenomena. Here, an extension of the classical paradigm is reported …

Light-matter interaction in plasmonic nanostructures is often treated within the realm of
classical optics. However, recent experimental findings show the need to go beyond the …

Optical properties of metal nanostructures are the basis of several scientific and
technological applications. When the nanostructure characteristic size is of the order of few …

Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is a formally exact approach to the time-
dependent electronic many-body problem which is widely used for calculating excitation …