Electrodynamics of Hybrid Nanostructures

Electrodynamics is about what happens when an electromagnetic field meets matter. At the nanoscale, this encounter triggers a variety of physical phenomena that reveal a plethora of novel properties of the material that can be tailored to devise different kinds of hybrid systems and devices. In particular, combining a magnetic material with a plasmonic nanostructure, in the so-called magneto-plasmonic nanostructure, provides us with an additional handle for controlling the electrical, magnetic, and optical properties of such structures. This is achieved through the coupling of the electric and magnetic fields to the charge and spin degrees of freedom of the underlying material, producing several rich non-linear effects. 

These investigations are triggered by the need to optimize the functionalities of innovative hybrid materials and the application of their enhanced properties in various areas such as diagnostics, food quality control, environmental monitoring, magnetic imaging, energy harvesting, water depollution, etc. 

This Special Issue of Magnetochemistry will provide an up-to-date snapshot of the current fundamental research on the interplay between charge and spins excitations in hybrid nanostructures, to understand the ensuing physical phenomena and related issues, their current benefits and limitations, fostering new fundamental research and applications.

In this context, we invite the submission of research papers, as well as perspective articles and tutorial reviews, to illustrate some of the current developments in the field of electrodynamics of confined systems. There is an emphasis on theoretical and experimental fundamental science and on proof-of-principle experiments dealing with physical phenomena, rather than sample synthesis or enabling technologies.

Prof. Dr. Hamid Kachkachi
Guest Editor

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• nanomagnetism
• plasmons
• charge and spin degrees of freedom
• theory and experiments
• hybrid nanostructures
• magneto-plasmonic effects