For a physicist, and more generally for a scientist, one of the pleasures in everyday life is to
detect exemplifying manifestations and avatars of the topic he is working on. Why do small …

During the year 2008, we have been commemorating, in several places, the hundredth
anniversary of the famous 1908-paper by Mie describing the interaction between an …

Interest in nanotechnology is driven by the unique and novel properties of nanoscale
materials such as the strong interaction of metal particles with light, caused by localized …

Since the development of Lorenz–Mie theory describing the electromagnetic scattering of a
plane wave by a homogeneous spherical particle, light scattering theories (and applications) …

Combining quantitative photothermal microscopy and light scattering microscopy as well as
accurate MIE scattering calculations on single gold nanoparticles, we reveal that the …

We have studied the spectral response of individual pairs of gold nanoparticles chemically
synthesized and stabilized on a transparent thin film. Very thin interspacing distances are …

A great number of works focus their interest on the study of gold nanoparticle plasmonic
properties. Among those, sharp nanostructures appear to exhibit the more interesting …

Interactions of gold and silver spherical nanoparticles (NPs) of a wide range of radius size
with tightly focused beams are investigated for a wide range of wavelengths. The scattering …

Orbital angular momentum and polarization states of highly focused vector vortex beams
can be engineered to selectively excite the desired multipoles in nanoparticles, making them …

We show that the optical properties of a particle above a plane dielectric interface differ
dramatically from those of the same particle embedded in a homogeneous matrix …