Plasmonics
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Plasmonics is a thriving and rapidly developing area of modern physics that involves the study of light-matter interaction driven by surface plasmons, which are collective oscillations of free electrons in metal coupled with an electromagnetic field. Surface plasmons can either propagate on smooth/nanostructured metal surfaces, or be localized in metal nanostructures. Providing high tunability and sensitivity to the optical response of the nanostructures, together with strong localization and drastic enhancement of the electromagnetic fields, plasmonics has led to progress in many areas and applications, including artificial optical materials (metamaterials) with engineered optical properties, nanoscale optoelectronic circuits, nonlinear optics, hot-carrier photocatalysis, chemo-/bio-sensing and imaging, to name a few. With the current research approaching truly nanoscale dimensions and/or a single plasmon level, plasmonics offers an intriguing platform for demonstration of quantum phenomena, testing the related theories, and development of quantum devices.
This Collection invites submissions of original research in the field of plasmonics, from fundamental theoretical studies and demonstration of novel plasmonic phenomena, to the development of next generation of plasmonic devices and their exploitation in a variety of applications across photonics, electronics, chemistry, and biomedical sciences.
Editors
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Mady Elbahri
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
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Donghyun Kim
Yonsei University, Korea
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Alexey Krasavin
King’s College London, UK
Mady Elbahri is the Head of the Nanochemistry and Nanoengineering group located at the Institute of Polymer Research at Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht and at the Institute for Materials Science at the University of Kiel. From sustainable material by design to functional macroscopic architectures deployed in energy, environment, and life science is the sustainable mission of the Nanochemistry and Nanoengineering group. Dr Elbahri has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2016.
Donghyun Kim is a Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering of Yonsei University. The main theme of his research at Yonsei has been focused on photonic technology and applications in biomedical engineering based on plasmonics. Prof Kim has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2017.
Alexey Krasavin is currently a Research Fellow at King's College London. His research interests include optical metamaterials, active manipulation of light at the nanoscale, nonlinear plasmonic-assisted effects, plasmonic-enhanced fluorescence and highly integrated photonic circuits. Dr Krasavin has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2016.
