The growing maturity of nanofabrication has ushered massive sophisticated optical
structures available on a photonic chip. The integration of subwavelength-structured …

Nanoscopic chiroptics studies the spin-dependent asymmetric light–matter interactions at
the nanoscale, where the asymmetry can stem from the intrinsic properties of materials …

Driven by applications in chemical sensing, biological imaging and material
characterisation, Raman spectroscopies are attracting growing interest from a variety of …

Core–shell nanoparticles are at the leading edge of the hot research topics and offer a wide
range of applications in optics, biomedicine, environmental science, materials, catalysis …

Solar steam generation has been achieved by surface plasmon heating with metallic
nanoshells or nanoparticles, which have inherently narrow absorption bandwidth. For …

Cavity array, with excellent optical capture capability, has received increasing attention for
the surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)-active substrates. Here, we proposed …

The ability to confine light into tiny spatial dimensions is important for applications such as
microscopy, sensing, and nanoscale lasers. Although plasmons offer an appealing avenue …

This review discusses a relatively new technique for optical nanoimaging at visible
wavelength, known as tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS). This technique relies on …

The present status and development of strong-field nano-optics, an emerging field of
nonlinear optics, is discussed. A nonperturbative regime of light-matter interactions is …

While the nonradiative decay of surface plasmons was once thought to be only a parasitic
process that limits the performance of plasmonic devices, it has recently been shown that it …