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The intersection of nanostructured materials with photonics and electronics shows great potential for clinical diagnostics, sensors, ultrafast telecommunication devices, and a new generation of compact and fast computers. Nanophotonics draws upon cross-disciplinary expertise from physics, materials science, chemistry, electrical engineering, biology, and medicine to create novel technologies to meet a variety of challenges. This is the first book to focus on novel materials and techniques relevant to the burgeoning area of nanoscale photonics and optoelectronics, including novel-hybrid materials with multifunctional capabilities and recent advancements in the understanding of optical interactions in nanoscale materials and quantum-confined objects. Leading experts provide a fundamental understanding of photonics and the related science and technology of plasmonics, polaritons, quantum dots for nanophotonics, nanoscale field emitters, near-field optics, nanophotonic architecture, and nanobiophotonic materials.
List of contents
1. Spontaneous Emission control in a Plasmonic Structures.- 2. Surface Plasmon enhanced Solid-State-Emitting Devices .- 3. Polariton devices based on wide-bandgap semiconductor microcavities.- 4. Search for Negative Refraction in Visible by Fluorescent Microscopy of Quantum Dots Infiltrated into Regular and Inverse Synthetic Opals.- 5. Self-Assembled Guaninosine based nanoscale molecular photonic devices.- 6. Carbon Nanotubes for Optical Power Limiting Applications.- 7. Field Emission Properties of ZnO, ZnS and GaN Nanostructures.- 8. Growth, optical, and transport properties of self-assembled InAs/InP nanostructures.
Summary
The intersection of nanostructured materials with photonics and electronics shows great potential for clinical diagnostics, sensors, ultrafast telecommunication devices, and a new generation of compact and fast computers. Nanophotonics draws upon cross-disciplinary expertise from physics, materials science, chemistry, electrical engineering, biology, and medicine to create novel technologies to meet a variety of challenges. This is the first book to focus on novel materials and techniques relevant to the burgeoning area of nanoscale photonics and optoelectronics, including novel-hybrid materials with multifunctional capabilities and recent advancements in the understanding of optical interactions in nanoscale materials and quantum-confined objects. Leading experts provide a fundamental understanding of photonics and the related science and technology of plasmonics, polaritons, quantum dots for nanophotonics, nanoscale field emitters, near-field optics, nanophotonic architecture, and nanobiophotonic materials.
