plasmonic back reflectors Vivian E. Ferry, Marc A. Verschuuren, Hongbo B. T. Li, Ruud E. I. Schropp, Harry A. Atwater, and Albert Polman Thomas J. Watson Laboratories of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Philips Research Laboratories, High Tech Campus 4, 5656 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands Utrecht University, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Sc...

1Nonlinear Physics Centre and CUDOS@ANU, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia 2School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QL, UK 3Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK 4Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

Surface Plasmonic Fields in NANOPHOTONICS The fi eld of nanophotonics is fi nding myriad applications in information technology, health care, lighting, sensing and national security. This article explores the ultrafast electrodynamics of surface plasmonpolariton fi elds on nanostructured metaldielectric boundaries, and describes how to make a sensor to measure chemical reactions at a surface by...

Nanostructuring of materials has opened up a number of new possibilities for manipulating and enhancing light-matter interactions, thereby improving fundamental device properties. Low-dimensional semiconductors, like quantum dots, enable one to catch the electrons and control the electronic properties of a material, while photonic crystal structures allow synthesizing the electromagnetic proper...