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.
Author(s): Alastair Cunningham, Thomas Bürgi (auth.), Carsten Rockstuhl, Toralf Scharf (eds.)
Series: Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 372
Tags: Nanoscale Science and Technology;Optical and Electronic Materials;Nanotechnology and Microengineering;Applied and Technical Physics;Optics and Electrodynamics
Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Bottom-up Organisation of Metallic Nanoparticles....Pages 1-37
Amorphous Metamaterials and Potential Nanophotonics Applications....Pages 39-66
Homogenization of Amorphous Media....Pages 67-87
Multipole Analysis of Self-assembled Metamaterials....Pages 89-117
Electrodynamic Theory of Three-Dimensional Metamaterials of Hierarchically Organized Nanoparticles....Pages 119-141
Deterministic Amorphous Metamaterials and Their Optical Far-Field Response....Pages 143-167
Recent Advances in Nearfield Optical Analysis and Description of Amorphous Metamaterials....Pages 169-200
Structure and Properties of Photonic Amorphous Diamond....Pages 201-225
Lasing in Amorphous Nanophotonic Structures....Pages 227-265
Amorphous Nanophotonics in Nature....Pages 267-287
Random Light Scattering....Pages 289-305
Active Plasmonics in Self-organized Soft Materials....Pages 307-326
Plasmonic Nanoparticle-Based Metamaterials: From Electric to Magnetic Response....Pages 327-365
Back Matter....Pages 367-372
