Fundamental Studies of the Electronic, Thermal and Optical Response of Metal Nanostructures
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanophotonics Materials and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 3946
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanoplasmonics; nonlinear optics; metamaterials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last two decades, an unusually high volume of literature has been accumulating discussing the optical properties of metal nanostructures. In parallel, progress has been made in our understanding of the electronic and thermal responses of these systems. However, to date, there are only a few attempts to provide a comprehensive description of the combined optical, electronic, and thermal responses. For example, almost all the detailed studies of the electron non-equilibrium distribution due to optical illumination have ignored the possibility of metal heating up; on the other hand, extensive and useful studies on heating by metal nanostructures (the so-called field of thermo-plasmonics) have ignored the non-equilibrium electron distribution created at the same time. This partial description is particularly problematic when characterizing the nonlinear optical response of metals, since thermal and non-thermal effects are hard to separate, both theoretically and experimentally. Similarly, these effects are easy to mix up in the context of microscopic fully quantum mechanical calculations.
The goal of this Special Edition is to promote studies that simultaneously address the optical, electronic, and thermal response of metal nanostructures, using recent progress in theory, on one hand, and advanced spectroscopic techniques on the other hand.
Prof. Dr. Yonatan Sivan
Dr. Kuo-Ping Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanoplasmonics
- solid state physics
- electron distribution
- thermoplasmonics
