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Worldwide research efforts on plasmonics and metamaterials have been growing exponentially for the past ten years. Will this course hold true over the next decade?

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Figure 1: Number of papers published per year in the fields of plasmonics (blue circles) and metamaterials (orange circles) between 1995 and 2015 (data taken from ISI Web of Knowledge, 2016).
Figure 2: Illustration of a particle-on-mirror plasmonic cavity strongly coupled to a single molecule placed within its (sub-)nanometric gap.

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  1. Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez and Francisco J. García-Vidal are in the Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada and Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain,

    Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez & Francisco J. García-Vidal

  2. Luis Martín-Moreno is at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón and Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain,

    Luis Martín-Moreno

  3. Francisco J. García-Vidal is also at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), E-20018 Donostia/San Sebastián, Spain,

    Francisco J. García-Vidal

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Fernández-Domínguez, A., García-Vidal, F. & Martín-Moreno, L. Unrelenting plasmons. Nature Photon 11, 8–10 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.258

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