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A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanophotonics Materials and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 16 June 2023 | Viewed by 3947
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plasmonic resonator configuration design and optimization; light–matter interaction phenomena; fluorescent light emission; non-classical light emission; infrared photodetection; biosensing; lithography
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Resonators in the classical sense are artificial structures that enhance signals at specific wavelengths via modes governed by geometrical parameters. Nanotechnology has opened the avenues to designing and fabricating nanoresonators, which can be excited by light despite their subwavelength size-scale. This is due to mode confinement in metallic structures, which is enabled by the excitation of plasmonic modes. Design and application of plasmonic nanoresonators is an inspiring, beautiful, and rapidly developing research area. All phenomena of photonic resonators have been rediscovered, and analogous theoretical approaches have been developed, thus initializing novel classes of applications. The uniqueness of nanoresonators is that the large local electromagnetic-field enhancement is accompanied by a small mode volume, which allows improving fluorescence due to the Purcell effect and realizing permanent modification of materials in nanolithography. Non-classical light–matter interaction phenomena including strong coupling and collective emission as well as lasing have unique characteristics originating from the involved plasmonic modes. Thus, it becomes possible to realize all-optical signal processing, to catch and monitor individual as well as interacting molecules in intracavity sensing, and to localize them by overcoming the diffraction limit in imaging. Moreover, light–matter interaction phenomena can be completely controlled in space and time simultaneously in predesigned nanoresonators.
As a guest editor at the Nanomaterials journal of MDPI, I would like to call your attention to the Special Issue on “Plasmonics Nanoresonators”. We welcome submissions of both original research papers and reviews on this topic.
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- resonant structure
- mode confinement
- plasmonic mode
- fluorescence enhancement
- strong coupling
- collective emission
- lasing
- intracavity sensing
- subdiffraction-limited imaging
- adaptive control