Nanoplasmonics (FD178): Faraday Discussion

This meeting aims to highlight the most recent breakthroughs in this multidisciplinary field and hear from the different perspectives of physicists, chemists and biologists. It will connect the various subdisciplines in the field and define the most challenging problems for the future. Recent advances in nanofabrication and subwavelength optical characterisation have led to significant new advances in plasmonics. 

In addition to traditional top-down nanofabrication techniques, chemical-based fabrication has emerged as an inexpensive and viable alternative with electrochemical and self-organisation methods for fabrication of plasmonic nanoparticles and extended plasmonic structures. 

The meeting will focus on areas where progress is expected to have a most significant impact on a whole area of nanoplasmonics and on commercial exploitation.