Download or read book Active Plasmonic Nanomaterials written by Luciano De Sio and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) represent an outstanding class of nanomaterials that have the capability to localize light at the nanoscale by exploiting a phenomenon called localized plasmon resonance. The book is aimed at reviewing recent efforts devoted to utilize NPs in many research fields, such as photonics, optics, and plasmonics. In this fram