Introduction to nanophotonics

Nanophotonics is where photonics merges with nanoscience and nanotechnology, and where spatial confinement considerably modifies light propagation and light-matter interaction. The textbook highlights practical issues, material properties and device feasibility, and includes the basic optical proper...

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Main Author Gaponenko, S. V. 1958-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780511741418
9780521763752
9780511749766
9780511743214
9780511744297
9780511740688
9780511750502
9781139636636
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xviii, 465 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Electrons and electromagnetic waves in nanostructures. Basic properties of electromagnetic waves and quantum particles
  • Wave optics versus wave mechanics I
  • electrons in periodic structures and quantum confinement effects
  • Semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots)
  • Nanoplasmonics I: metal nanoparticles
  • Light in periodic structures: photonic crystals
  • Light in non-periodic structures
  • Photonic circuitry
  • Tunneling of light
  • Nanoplasmonics II: metal-dielectric nanostructures
  • Wave optics versus wave mechanics II
  • Light-matter interaction in nanostructures. LIght-matter interaction: introductory quantum electrodynamics
  • Density of states effects on optical proecesses in mesoscopic structures
  • Light-matter states beyond perturbational approach
  • Plasmonic enhancement of secondary radiation.