Main description:

This contributed volume summarizes recent theoretical developments in plasmonics and its applications in physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, and medicine. It focuses on recent advances in several major areas of plasmonics including plasmon-enhanced spectroscopies, light scattering, many-body effects, nonlinear optics, and ultrafast dynamics. The theoretical and computational methods used in these investigations include electromagnetic calculations, density functional theory calculations, and nonequilibrium electron dynamics calculations. The book presents a comprehensive overview of these methods as well as their applications to various current problems of interest.

Feature:

Interdisciplinary, for individuals in physics, chemistry, materials science, and engineering

Wide spectrum of industrial applications

Describes current trends

Features introductory material

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This contributed volume summarizes recent theoretical developments in plasmonics and its applications in physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, and medicine. It focuses on recent advances in several major areas of plasmonics including plasmon-enhanced spectroscopies, light scattering, many-body effects, nonlinear optics, and ultrafast dynamics. The theoretical and computational methods used in these investigations include electromagnetic calculations, density functional theory calculations, and nonequilibrium electron dynamics calculations. The book presents a comprehensive overview of these methods as well as their applications to various current problems of interest.

Contents:

Nanoplasmonics: from Present into Future.- Plasmonics for Enhanced Vibrational Signatures.- Plasmonically Enhanced Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.- Silicon Plasmonics.- Ultrafast Nonlinear Plasmonics.- Second-order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Plasmonic Nanostructures.- Ultrafast and Nonlinear Plasmon Dynamics.-Controlling Thermal Radiation with Surface Waves.- Aperiodic Order in Nanoplasmonics.- Waves on Subwalength Metallic Surfaces: A Microscopic View Point.- Plasmonic Functionalities Based on Detuned Electrical Dipoles.- Plasmonics with a Twist: Taming Optical Tornadoes on the Nanoscale.- Spin optics in Plasmonics.- Plasmonics and Super-Hydrophobicity: A New Class of Nano-bio-devices.- Cooperative Effects in Plasmonics.