Noble metal nanoparticles due to their unique optical properties arising from their
interactions with an incident light have been intensively employed in a broad range of …

Despite the traditional plasmonic materials are counted on one hand, there are a lot of
possible combinations leading to alloys with other elements of the periodic table, in …

We introduce the refractiveindex. info database, a comprehensive open-source repository
containing optical constants for a wide array of materials, and describe in detail the …

Chiral growth and chirality transfer associated with plasmonic nanostructures have
rejuvenated the field of chirality. As the precise regioselective growth of inorganic crystals …

Surface plasmons have shown increasingly widespread applications in the last decade,
especially in the field of solar energy conversion, recently leading to the use of metal …

Unlike conventional optics, plasmonics enables unrivaled concentration of optical energy
well beyond the diffraction limit of light. However, a significant part of this energy is …

Understanding and modeling of a surface-plasmon phenomenon on lossy metals interfaces
based on simplified models of dielectric function lead to problems when confronted with …

Bimetallic plasmonic nanoparticles enable tuning of the optical response and chemical
stability by variation of the composition. The present numerical simulation study compares …

Photoacoustic micro-fluidic pumps (PMPs) based on localized surface plasmon resonance
(LSPR) of nanoparticles (NPs) can convert photo energy into kinetic energy of fluidic jetting …

The fixed optical properties of noble metals currently limit their use in photonic devices that
operate at optical frequencies. To achieve metals with tunable optical response, we present …