Nano-Optics: Principles Enabling Basic Research and Applications

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Light-Matter Interactions: A Coupled Oscillator Description....Pages 3-14
Luminescence Spectroscopy of Nanophosphors....Pages 15-42
Nanomaterials: Basic Concepts and Quantum Models....Pages 43-105
Non-radiative Processes in Nanocrystals....Pages 107-142
3D Optical Laser Lithography....Pages 143-148
Nanostructures and Nanocrystals with Radiation Induced Color Centers: Optical Properties and Applications....Pages 149-171
Colloidal Nanophotonics: State-of-the-Art and Prospective....Pages 173-189
Ultrafast Nano-Biophotonics....Pages 191-212
Circuit Optomechanics with Diamond Integrated Optical Devices....Pages 213-221
Terahertz Sensing at the Nanoscale....Pages 223-234
How Latitude Location on a Micro-World Enables Real-Time Nanoparticle Sizing....Pages 235-245
Nanoplasmonic and Microfluidic Devices for Biological Sensing....Pages 247-274
High-Throughput and Ultra-Sensitive Biosensing and Spectroscopy by Plasmonics....Pages 275-282
Photoemission from Nanomaterials in Strong Few-Cycle Laser Fields....Pages 283-299
Luminescence of Er3+ Ions in Nanocrystalline Glass-Ceramics....Pages 301-317
Localization of Yb3+, Er3+ and Co2+ Dopants in an Optical Glass Ceramics of MgAl2O4 Spinel Nano-crystals Embedded in SiO2 Glass....Pages 319-341
Nd3+, Eu3+ and Yb3+ Ions as Structural Probes in the Scheelite-Type Cadmium Molybdates with Vacancies....Pages 343-368
Medical Applications of Nanomaterials....Pages 369-386
Emission Cross Section, Füchtbauer-Ladenburg Equation, and Purcell Factor....Pages 387-404
Surface Plasmon Enhanced Fluorescence of Glycine-Dimer-Functionalized Silver Nanoparticles....Pages 405-410
Front Matter....Pages 411-411
Andrea Pozzo: The Art of Perspective....Pages 413-426
Front Matter....Pages 427-427
Effective Oscillator Strengths of Tb3+ Ions in a Garnet Crystal Determined from Low Temperature Magneto-Optic Rotations....Pages 429-429
Analysis of Surface Layer Properties of Evaporating Microdroplet of Aqueous SiO2 Nanospheres Suspension with Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate....Pages 431-432
Compressed Sensing Techniques Applied to the Reconstruction of Magnetic Resonance Images....Pages 433-434
FDTD Method and HPC for Large-Scale Computational Nanophotonics....Pages 435-439
Investigation of the Luminescence Spectral Profiles and the Efficiencies of Yb3+, Nd3+, Tm3+ Doped Y2O3-SiO2 Nano-phosphors....Pages 441-444
Surface Electromagnetic Waves Guided by Non-metallic Interfaces....Pages 445-445
Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence in Plasmonic Waveguides....Pages 447-447
Nonlinear Optics in TiO2 Nanoscale Waveguides....Pages 449-449
Mapping the Local Density of States of Periodic Plasmonic Nanostructures with Stochastic Super-resolution....Pages 451-451
Design of Optical Nanobiosensors for Detection of Toxic Compounds and Pharmaceutical Products....Pages 453-454
Random Nanocomposites: Fundamental Properties and Application for Harmful Agents Detection....Pages 455-457
Hall Effect Sign-inversion and Parallel Hall Effect in Single-constituent 3D Metamaterials....Pages 459-460
Organization of Metallic Nanoparticles in Block Copolymer Ultra-Thin Films for Optical Devices....Pages 461-462
Self-Assembled Laser-Activated Plasmonic Substrates for High-Throughput, High-Efficiency Intracellular Delivery....Pages 463-463
Single-Crystal vs Polycrystalline Gold: A Non-linear-Optics Analysis....Pages 465-466
Transport of Light Through White-LED Phosphor Plates....Pages 467-468
Direct Laser Writing of 3D Nanostructures Using a 405nm Laser Diode....Pages 469-469
Integrated Super-Couplers Based on Zero-Index Metamaterials....Pages 471-472
Front Matter....Pages 473-474
3D Micro-printing of Optical Temperature Probes....Pages 427-427
Evaporation-Driven Aggregation of Nanoparticles in a Free Droplet: Spherical Symmetry in Nanostructured Material....Pages 475-475
Front Matter....Pages 477-479
Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy Techniques Applied to Colloidal Nanocrystals....Pages 481-481
Directivity Based Nanoscopic Position Sensing....Pages 483-485
Biosensing on a Chip: Study of Plasmonic Nanostructures Integrated in Microfluidic Devices....Pages 487-488
New Directions in Tip-Enhanced Near-Field Optical Microscopy....Pages 489-490
Phase Singularities in Random Waves: Exploring Optical Statistics at the Nanoscale....Pages 491-492
Discrimination of Grapevine Genomic DNA Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and PCA....Pages 493-494
High-Order Multipole Resonances in Cuboidal Surface Phonon Polariton Nanoresonators....Pages 495-497
Polarization Properties of the SERS Radiation Scattered by Linear Nanoantennas with Two Distinct Localized Plasmon Resonances....Pages 499-500
Fundamental Study and Analytical Applications of Nanoparticle-Enhanced Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (NELIBS) of Metals, Semiconductors and Insulators....Pages 501-502
New Antibacterial Photoactive Nanocomposite Additives for Endodontic Cements and Fillings....Pages 503-504
Low-Loss Phonon Polaritons in Nanostructured Dielectrics....Pages 505-506
Fabrication of SERS Substrates by Roll-to-Roll Hot Embossing....Pages 507-509
Coupling Semiconducting Nanowires to Plasmonic Nanoantennas....Pages 511-512
Optical Emission Spectroscopy of Combined Laser Ablation-Hollow Cathode Glow Discharge Plasma Source....Pages 513-515
Femtosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Photochromic Thiol-Functionalized Terphenylthiazole-Based Diarylethene Molecules....Pages 517-518
Nanostructural Inhomogeneities in Chalcogenide Glasses Probed by Positron Annihilation Methods....Pages 519-520
Chiral Plasmonic Core-Shell Nanohelices....Pages 521-524
Front Matter....Pages 525-527
Two-Dimensional Dye Self-Assemblies on Graphene: Optical Signature....Pages 529-530
Q-Switching of Ytterbium Lasers by A Graphene Saturable Absorber....Pages 481-481
Surface-Enhanced Fluorescence from Polypropylene Substrates....Pages 531-532
Holographic Laser Scanning Microscopy....Pages 533-535
Physical and Chemical Features of Biochar: A Reservoir of Materials in Advanced Nanotechnologies....Pages 537-539
Modal Behaviour and Switching Properties of a Tailored Parity-Time (PT) Symmetric Grating....Pages 541-543
Pulsed Laser-Activated Plasmonic Pyramids for Intracellular Delivery....Pages 545-547
Multi-resonant Metamaterials for Visible and Near-IR Frequencies....Pages 549-551
Nonlinear Properties of Novel Glass-Ceramics with Co2+:Ga2O3 Nanocrystals....Pages 553-553
Resonant Optical Trapping in Microfluidic-Integrated Hollow Photonic Crystal Cavities....Pages 555-555
1-D Photonic Crystals Fabricated by RF Sputtering Towards Photonic Applications....Pages 557-559
Design of Thin Film Nanocomposite Grating Based Sensors....Pages 561-561
Structure and Luminescence Properties of Nanofluorapatite Activated with Eu3+ Ions Synthesized by Hydrothermal Method....Pages 563-564
Back Matter....Pages 565-566
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