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Amorphous Nanophotonics

  • Represents the first comprehensive overview on amorphous nano-optical and nano-photonic systems
  • Takes an interdisciplinary approach
  • Stimulates further research in this field
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics (NON)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
  2. Bottom-up Organisation of Metallic Nanoparticles

    • Alastair Cunningham, Thomas Bürgi
    Pages 1-37
  3. Amorphous Metamaterials and Potential Nanophotonics Applications

    • Filiberto Bilotti, Sergei Tretyakov
    Pages 39-66
  4. Homogenization of Amorphous Media

    • Ari Sihvola, Henrik Wallén
    Pages 67-87
  5. Multipole Analysis of Self-assembled Metamaterials

    • Stefan Mühlig, Carsten Rockstuhl
    Pages 89-117
  6. Electrodynamic Theory of Three-Dimensional Metamaterials of Hierarchically Organized Nanoparticles

    • Vassilios Yannopapas, Alexandros G. Vanakaras, Demetri J. Photinos
    Pages 119-141
  7. Deterministic Amorphous Metamaterials and Their Optical Far-Field Response

    • Christian Helgert, Thomas Pertsch
    Pages 143-167
  8. Lasing in Amorphous Nanophotonic Structures

    • Hui Cao, Heeso Noh
    Pages 227-265
  9. Amorphous Nanophotonics in Nature

    • Stephen Luke, Peter Vukusic
    Pages 267-287
  10. Random Light Scattering

    • Franz-Josef Haug
    Pages 289-305
  11. Active Plasmonics in Self-organized Soft Materials

    • Roberto Caputo, Luciano De Sio, Ugo Cataldi, Cesare Umeton
    Pages 307-326
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 367-372

About this book

This book represents the first comprehensive overview over amorphous nano-optical and nano-photonic systems. Nanophotonics is a burgeoning branch of optics that enables many applications by steering the mould of light on length scales smaller than the wavelength with devoted nanostructures. Amorphous nanophotonics exploits self-organization mechanisms based on bottom-up approaches to fabricate nanooptical systems. The resulting structures presented in the book are characterized by a deterministic unit cell with tailored geometries; but their spatial arrangement is not controlled. Instead of periodic, the structures appear either amorphous or random. The aim of this book is to discuss all aspects related to observable effects in amorphous nanophotonic material and aspects related to their design, fabrication, characterization and integration into applications. The book has an interdisciplinary nature with contributions from scientists in physics, chemistry and materials sciences and sheds light on the topic from many directions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Institut für Festkörpertheorie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany

    Carsten Rockstuhl

  • Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    Toralf Scharf

About the editors

Carsten Rockstuhl is Junior-Professor for Theoretical Nanooptics, Univ. Jena.

Toralf Scharf is Senior scientist at the Optics and Photonics Laboratory, Institute of Microengineering, EPFL, Head of Research for Information Optics in the Applied Optics Group at the Institute of Microtechnology, Neuchâtel

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