Localized fields, global impact: Industrial applications of resonant plasmonic materials
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ion Few inventions have been as ubiquitous as the incandescent light bulb. Edison’s 1880 patent was born from over 40 years of effort by multiple researchers to optimize the filament materials, the bulb atmosphere, and the socket interface. The invention revolutionized society, bringing light into homes and the workplace, lengthening work and leisure time, and laying the foundation for an interconnected world. It is a technology that underscores the importance of light and lightbased technologies to our world and highlights the crucial role of materials research in the optical sciences. Today, efforts continue to make lighting technologies brighter and more energy efficient. Controlling light extends far beyond the lighting industry. It underpins the Internet, which relies on optical signal
propagation, modulation, and detection for fast and longranging data communication. It enables new imaging technologies, from digital single-lens reflex cameras for photography enthusiasts to advanced biomedical endoscopy and microscopy. It is foundational to solar energy generation and storage—from natural photosynthesis to engineered photovoltaic and photocatalytic cells. Whereas the diffraction limit would seemingly prohibit the development of desktop optical computers, flat camera zoom lenses, nanoscale endoscopes, or ultra-efficient nanostructured solar cells, plasmons offer a potentially transformative way to control light and enable new light-based technologies. Because plasmons can tailor light propagation from the molecular to the macroscale, they promise almost complete control of photons into and out of materials and devices. To highlight just
J.A. Dionne, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA; [email protected] A. Baldi, Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research, The Netherlands; and Stanford University, USA; [email protected] B. Baum, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA; [email protected] C.-S. Ho, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, USA; [email protected] V. Jankovic´ , Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems and Stanford University, USA; [email protected] G.V. Naik, Stanford University, USA; [email protected] T. Narayan, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA; [email protected] J.A. Scholl, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA; [email protected] Y. Zhao, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA; [email protected] DOI: 10.1557/mrs.2015.233
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LOCALIZED FIELDS, GLOBAL IMPACT: INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF RESONANT PLASMONIC MATERIALSS
a few exciting applications, plasmons have enabled brighter light-emitting diodes, smartphone-compatible molecular sensors, photothermal cancer therapies, solar-driven water purification, nanoscale lithography, subwavelength lasers, and high-density data storage and hologr
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