Plasmon-Enhanced Photon Emission in Nanostructures
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Optoelectronics and Optical Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 July 2025 | Viewed by 2099
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the existence of surface plasmons was first predicted in 1957, extensive studies have been conducted in both theoretical and experimental sides, showing that plasmons are not only exotic phenomena but also a powerful tool for flexibly manipulating light–matter interaction and thus tailoring photon emission properties. With the development of nanofabrication technology, a variety of nanostructures can be precisely fabricated, such as nanoantennas, metasurfaces, and waveguides, which provides new possibilities for making full use of plasmons to enhance photon emission for applications ranging from information process to energy harvesting. Moreover, recent studies have shown that plasmonic nanostructures can also improve the manipulation/enhancement of nonclassical light (e.g., single-photon beams), which shows promising perspectives in modern optics and quantum technologies. In this context, more efforts from both theoretical and experimental aspects should be dedicated to this exciting field by using plasmonic nanostructures to fully tailor the degree of freedom of photon emission properties, such as intensity, direction, spectrum, polarization, and phase.
This Special Issue invites manuscripts that introduce the recent advances in plasmon-enhanced photon emission in nanostructures. All theoretical, numerical, and experimental papers and review papers are welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Large Purcell enhancement of nanoantennas and nanocavities;
- Plasmonic metasurfaces for wavefront control of classical and non-classical light;
- Broadband/perfect thermal absorber/emitters;
- Photovoltaics, infrared stealth/cloaking, and radiative cooling, etc;
- Plasmon-enhanced optical sensing/detecting;
- Plasmonics in 2D materials;
- Nanostructures for generation/enhancement of quantum photon emission;
- Near field nano optics and near field thermal radiation of nanostructures;
- Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) coupling and propagation in nanostructures, e.g., gratings, waveguides, grooves, etc.;
- Surface-enhanced Raman scattering with nanostructures;
- Plasmonic nanoparticles: fundamentals and applications.
Dr. Yinhui Kan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- surface plasmons
- nanostructures
- photon emitter
- metasurfaces
- 2D materials
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Planned Papers
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Title: Temperature-Dependent Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances of Noble Nanoparticles Covered by Polymers
Authors: Dimitrios Ntemogiannis; Maria Tsarmpopoulou; Constantinos Moularas; Yiannis Deligiannakis; Alkeos Stamatelatos; Dionysios M Maratos; Nikolaos G Ploumis; Vagelis Karoutsos; Spyridon Grammatikopoulos; Mihail Sigalas; Panagiotis Poulopoulos
Affiliation: Department of Materials Science, University of Patras, 26504 Patras, Greece
Abstract: Self-assembled gold and silver nanoparticles were fabricated in medium vacuum conditions on Corning glass substrates by means of DC magnetron sputtering. The samples were either deposited at 420°C or 440°C, or they were deposited at room temperature and post annealed. Subsequently they were covered by three different polymers, namely: Polystyrene-block-polybutadiene-blockpolystyrene (PS-b-PBD-b-PS); Polystyrene-co-methyl methacrylate (PS-co-PMMA); and Polystyreneblock-polyisoprene-block-polystyrene (PS-b-PI-b-PS), by means of spin coating. Localized surface plasmon resonances were recorded in the temperature range -25°C – 100°C. We show that the resonance position changes systematically as a function of temperature. Theoretical calculations carried out via the Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis support the experimental results. Based on these results we propose the development of a temperature sensor.
