Emerging Directions in Plasmonics

Plasmonics enables a wealth of applications, including photocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry, photothermal heating, optoelectronic devices, and biological and chemical sensing, while encompassing a broad range of materials including coinage metals, doped semiconductors, metamaterials, 2D materials, and chiral assemblies. Applications in plasmonics benefit from the large local electromagnetic field enhancements generated by plasmon excitation, as well as the products of plasmon decay, including photons, hot charge carriers, and heat. This special topic highlights recent work in both theory and experiment that advance our fundamental understanding of plasmon excitation and decay mechanisms, showcase new applications enabled by plasmon excitation, and highlight emerging classes of materials that support plasmon excitation.

Topics covered include, but are not limited to:

Guest Editors

Emiliano Cortés – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Alexander O. Govorov – Ohio University

Hiroaki Misawa – Hokkaido University

Katherine (Kallie) Willets – Temple University