Over the past two decades, there has been a growing interest in the use of plasmonic
nanoparticles as sources of heat remotely controlled by light, giving rise to the field of …

Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Optothermal nanotweezers have emerged as an innovative optical manipulation technique
in the past decade, which revolutionized classical optical manipulation by efficiently …

Progress in optical manipulation has stimulated remarkable advances in a wide range of
fields, including materials science, robotics, medical engineering, and nanotechnology. This …

Nanofabrication has been utilized to manufacture one-, two-, and three-dimensional
functional nanostructures for applications such as electronics, sensors, and photonic …

Plasmonics offer unprecedented control over light and stimulate fundamental research and
engineering applications in solar energy. The surface plasmon resonance is responsible for …

Solar illumination of broadly absorbing metal or carbon nanoparticles dispersed in a liquid
produces vapor without the requirement of heating the fluid volume. When particles are …

Recent years have seen a growing interest in using metal nanostructures to control
temperature on the nanoscale. Under illumination at its plasmonic resonance, a metal …

Photothermal technology that exhibits the unprecedented ability of metallic structures to
transduce visible and even near-infrared (NIR) light into heat at the nanometer scale has …

We demonstrate that lossy plasmonic resonances of nanoparticles are broad enough to
cover the majority of the solar spectrum and highly efficient for absorbing sunlight. In …