Computational Nanophotonics

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Defense Applications for Nanophotonics

Suman Shrestha, Mohit Kumar, Aditi Deshpande, and George C. Giakos

CONTENTS

12.1  Introduction

12.2  Nanomaterials and Surface Plasmonics

12.3  Design Techniques and Nanotechnologies

12.4  Defense Applications

12.5  Nanophotonics in Space Defense

12.5.1  Computational Nanophotonics with MATLAB^®

12.6  Conclusion

References

12.1  Introduction

Nanophotonics is a study of characterizing, building, and manipulating optically active nanostructures and nanoparticles for producing new capabilities in instrumentation for the nanoscale, chemical and biomedical sensing, information and communication technologies, enhanced solar cells and lighting, disease treatment, environmental remediation, and many other ...