Nano-Optics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kawata, Satoshi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ohtsu, Motoichi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Irie, Masahiro (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 84
• Subjects: Lasers.; Photonics.; Materials-Surfaces.; Thin films.; Materials science.; Nanotechnology.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.
• Physical Description: XV, 324 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540452737
• ISSN: 0342-4111 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45273-7

When a photon meets a nanostructure, many interesting phenomena occur. This book aims at developing the theories and the applications of photon interactions with nanostructures. The contributors were all participants in the well-known Japanese national research project, "Near-Field Nano-Optics", which ran from 1997 to 2000. The book covers a wide range of disciplines in nano-optics, including the theoretical development of imaging-contrast mechanisms as a result of photon and nanomatter interactions, and discussions on different near-field nanoprobes. Applications of nano-optics to sensing, imaging, analysis, and the fabrication of nanostructures, such as molecules and quantum devices, are also discussed, with a collection of experimental examples.