Plasmonics
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Plasmonics is a thriving and rapidly developing area of modern physics that involves the study of light-matter interaction driven by surface plasmons, which are collective oscillations of free electrons in metal coupled with an electromagnetic field. Surface plasmons can either propagate on smooth/nanostructured metal surfaces, or be localized in metal nanostructures. Providing high tunability and sensitivity to the optical response of the nanostructures, together with strong localization and drastic enhancement of the electromagnetic fields, plasmonics has led to progress in many areas and applications, including artificial optical materials (metamaterials) with engineered optical properties, nanoscale optoelectronic circuits, nonlinear optics, hot-carrier photocatalysis, chemo-/bio-sensing and imaging, to name a few. With the current research approaching truly nanoscale dimensions and/or a single plasmon level, plasmonics offers an intriguing platform for demonstration of quantum phenomena, testing the related theories, and development of quantum devices.
This Collection invites submissions of original research in the field of plasmonics, from fundamental theoretical studies and demonstration of novel plasmonic phenomena, to the development of next generation of plasmonic devices and their exploitation in a variety of applications across photonics, electronics, chemistry, and biomedical sciences.
Editors
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Mady Elbahri
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
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Donghyun Kim
Yonsei University, Korea
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Alexey Krasavin
King’s College London, UK
Submitting a paper for consideration
To submit your manuscript for consideration at Scientific Reports as part of this Collection, please follow the steps detailed on this page. On the first page of our online submission system, under “I’m submitting:” select the option “any other article type”. Once logged in you can submit your manuscript to a Collection by selecting “Guest Edited Collection”, under the “Choose the appropriate manuscript type” message, and clicking “Continue”. Then when filling out the manuscript information, select the "Plasmonics" Collection from the alphabetical list on the “Springer Nature Subject Category” tab. Authors should express their interest in the Collection in their cover letter.
Accepted papers are published on a rolling basis as soon as they are ready.
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