Gold based structures such as nanoparticles (NPs) and nanowires (NWs) have widely been
used as building blocks for sensing devices in chemistry and biochemistry fields because of …

In metal optics gold assumes a special status because of its practical importance in
optoelectronic and nano-optical devices, and its role as a model system for the study of the …

Some of the optical effects produced by plasmonic nanoparticles have been known since
antiquity. However, the physical understanding of these properties only began in the first …

MNPBEM is a Matlab toolbox for the simulation of metallic nanoparticles (MNP), using a
boundary element method (BEM) approach. The main purpose of the toolbox is to solve …

We demonstrate the ultrafast generation of electrons from tailored metallic nanoparticles and
unravel the role of plasmonic field enhancement in this process by comparing resonant and …

This consistent and systematic review of recent advances in optical antenna theory and
practice brings together leading experts in the fields of electrical engineering, nano-optics …

Polaritons are compositional light-matter quasiparticles that have enabled remarkable
breakthroughs in quantum and nonlinear optics, as well as in material science. Recently …

Recent experiments have evidenced sub-nanometer resolution in plasmonic-enhanced
probe spectroscopy. Such a high resolution cannot be simply explained using the commonly …

We present a comparative study of plasmonic antennas fabricated by electron beam
lithography and direct focused ion beam milling. We have investigated optical and structural …

We morph a silver nanodisk into a nanotriangle by producing a series of nanoparticles with
electron beam lithography. Using electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS), we map out the …