Nano-structures for optics and photonics : optical strategies for enhancing sensing, imaging, communication and energy conversion /: optical strategies for enhancing sensing, imaging, communication and energy conversion. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Baldassare Di Bartolo, John Collins, Luciano Silvestri.
• Editors: Di Bartolo, Baldassare; Collins, John; (Physicist), Silvestri, Luciano
• Other Names: NATO Advanced Study Institute on Nano-Structures for Optics and Photonics: Opticla Strategies for Enhancing Sensing, Imaging, Communication, and Energy Conversion
• Contents: Part I Lectures -- Nanoplasmonics: Fundamentals and Applications -- Transformation Optics -- Localized Light-Matter Interactions with Optical Antennas -- Biosensing Instrumentation -- Ultrafast Photonics with Microstructures Fibers -- Prospects of Molecular Scale Logic Gates and Logic Circuits -- Tunability of Plasmonic Devices -- Novel Plasmonic Probes and Smart Superhydrophobic Devices, New Tools for Forthcoming Spectroscopies at the Nanoscale -- Narrow-linewidth Lasers on a Silicon Chip -- Integrated Optomechanics: Opportunities for Tunable Nanophotonic Devices -- Fluorescence-Based Studies of Nanoparticles -- Incandescent Lamp-Like White-Light Emission from Doped and Undoped Oxide Nanopowders -- An Approach in the Structural and Spectroscopic Analysis of Yb3+-doped YAG Nano-ceramics by Conjugation of TEM-EDX and Optical Techniques -- Taking Microcavity Label-free Single Molecule Detection deep into the Protein Realm -- Fluorescence and Raman Scattering in Plasmonic Nano-structures: From Basic Science to Applications -- Principles and Applications of Rare Earth Ion-doped Nanoparticles -- Nanostructures in the Terahertz Range -- Nanomaterials for Lighting and Solar Energy Conversion -- Part II Interdisciplinary Lecture -- The Discovery of the Higgs Particle -- Part III Short Seminars -- Chemical and Strain Engineering of Functional Oxides -- Gold Photonic Crystals and Photonics Quasi-Crystals for Reproducible Surface-Enhanced Raman Substrates -- Mid-Infrared Surface Plasmon Polariton Sensors Resonant with the Vibrational Modes of Phospholipid Layers -- Structural and Spectroscopic Properties of Er3+:CdNb2O6 Phosphors -- Antibody Anchoring on QCM Gold Surfaces by UV Based Strategy -- Spectroscopic Properties of New Cubic Tungstates Doped with Eu3+ and Yb3+ Ions -- The Role of Surface Plasmon Resonance in Enhanced Transmission through Metallic Gratings -- Experimental Observation of Self-organized Nanostructures in Layered Crystals -- Nano-structuring for Molecular Motor Control -- Fingerprint Imaging Enhancement by Deposition of Columnar Thin Films Nanostructures -- Analytic Solution of the Rabi model -- Microscroll Invisibility Cloak -- The Identification of the Inorganic Pigments in the Cultural Heritage Objects using Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering -- Polymeric Microresonators for Biosensing Applications -- On the Possibility of Indicating Protein Conformational Changes via Energy Transfer between Intrinsic Fluorophores -- Part IV Posters -- Surface Plasmons and Strong Light-Matter Coupling in Metallic Nanoshells -- Photoluminescence and Electroluminescence Characterization of a-Si:H/c-Ci Interfaces -- Structural, Optoelectronic and Electrical Properties of GaAs Microcrystals Grown from (001) Si Nano-areas -- Plasmonic Sensors for Aromatic Hydrocarbon Detection -- Optical Annealing of Black Silicon -- Strongly Confined Gap Plasmon Modes in Graphene Sandwiches and Graphene-on-silicon -- Investigation of Polarized Light Emitting Diode -- Linking Optical Properties and Nanostructure of NiCrOx Cermet Nanocomposite for Solar Thermal Application -- Ultrafast Active Control of Plasmonic Resonances at THz Frequencies -- An Eigenvector Expansion Method for Localized Plasmon Modes: Application to Extinction and Electron Energy Loss Spectra of Isolated and Coupled Metallic Nanoparticles -- Characterisations of New Nd3+-Doped Scheelite-Type Molybdates for Laser Materials -- Cluster Implantation and Deposition Apparatus: Design and Capabilities -- Roles of Surface Pattern Morphology and Sunlight Incoherence on Solar Cell Optimization -- Processing and Characterization of Nanowire Arrays for Photodetectors -- Structural Analysis of Ge-Ga-Se/S-CsCl Glasses and Glass-ceramics for Application in Chalcogenide and Chalcohalide Photonics -- Regularities in Holographic Formation of Periodic Structures in the System Polymer-Metal Nanoparticles -- Modeling the Effect of Different Dimensions in High Contrast Grating Mirror -- InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots Covered by Graded GaAsSb Strain Reducing Layer -- Compact Wavelength- and Pulse-Duration-Tunable Ultrafast Laser System for Coherent Raman Microscopy -- Random Lasing in ZnSe and CdSe Semiconductor Powders -- Design of an Ultra-Broadband Super Absorbing Plasmonic Metamaterials -- High-order Harmonic Generation and Plasmonics -- Low Dispersion Propagation of Broad-band THz Pulses in a Two-Wire Waveguide -- Femtosecond Lase Micromachining of a-Si:H -- Low-level Monoclinic Content Detection in Zirconia Implants using Raman Spectroscopy -- Modeling Additive Color Effect in Natural Photonic Polycrystals using the Layer Homogenization Method: the Case of the Diamond Weevil -- Transformation of Optical Properties for gamma-Irradiated Lithium Fluoride Crystals under Transition from Bulk to Nanocrystals -- Characterization of Polyethylene Glycol Self-Assembled Monolayers by means of Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy for Biosensor Applications -- InAs Quantum Dots Covered by GaAsSb Strain Reducing Layer -- Maximizing Intensity in TiO2 Waveguides for Nonlinear Optics -- An Improved Method for T-matrix Calculations of Light Scattering by Spheroidal Particles -- Automated Algorithms for Multilayer Thin Film Filter Design Using Metamaterials -- Surface Charge Effects on the Interaction Between a Solid-Supported Model Lipid Membrane and AuNPs Studied by SFG Spectroscopy -- Photoluminescence of colour centres in thermally-evaporated LiF films for radiation imaging detectors -- P3HT:PCBM Based Organic Solar Cells: Structure Optimization and Improving External Quantum Efficiency by Plasmonic Nanoparticles Incorporation -- Optical Properties Nanocomposite Composed of Ag Nanoparticles Embedded in a DLC Film -- Part V List of Participants.
• Publisher Details: Dordrecht : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxxvi, 586 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 620.5; Physics; Nanophotonics -- Congresses; Nanostructured materials -- Congresses; Nanophotonics; Nanostructured materials; Technology & Engineering -- Nanotechnology & MEMS; Technology & Engineering -- Lasers & Photonics; Nanotechnology; Laser technology & holography; Nanotechnology; Science -- Nanostructures; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789401791335; 9401791333; 9401791325; 9789401791328
• Related ISBNs: 9789401791328
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 28, 2014).
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