The understanding of light‐matter interactions at the nanoscale lays the groundwork for
many future technologies, applications and materials. The scope of this article is the …

In contrast to previous absorber designs,[6, 7] we incorporate aluminum instead of gold for
the metal nanostructures and mirror to obtain full compatibility with industry standard …

We report on the experimental realization of a palladium-based plasmonic perfect absorber
at visible wavelengths and its application to hydrogen sensing. Our design exhibits a …

Although localized surface plasmons in metal nanoparticles can be modeled by Maxwells
equations, the difficulty in solving them forces many researchers to use numerical methods …

Plasmonic devices with absorbance close to unity have emerged as essential building
blocks for a multitude of technological applications ranging from trace gas detection to …

We couple localized plasmon modes in nanowire pairs with resonator modes of a
microcavity. Depending on the position of the nanowire pair in the resonator, the electric …

We present a first-order perturbation theory to calculate the frequency shift and linewidth
change of photonic resonances in one-and two-dimensional periodic structures under …

Optical elements with absorbance close to unity are of crucial importance for diverse
applications, ranging from thermal imaging to sensitive trace gas detection. A key factor for …

We present a formulation for the pole expansion of the scattering matrix of open optical
resonators, in which the pole contributions are expressed solely in terms of the resonant …

We strongly couple surface plasmon modes on a thin metal layer via localized plasmons of
nanowires to photonic microcavity modes. In particular, we place an array of nanowires …