Plasmonics

Using nanometer-size metamaterials, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have developed a technique to print images that uses the manipulation of light, rather than the application of ink, to produce colors.

Researchers have recorded the world's first optically encoded audio onto a plasmonic film substrate the size of human hair that has a capacity over five-and-a-half thousand times greater than conventional analog magnetic recording media.

Instead of storing a 3D image in a photographic plate, researchers at Purdue University have developed a novel hologram which stores a 3D image in a thin gold film containing thousands of V-shaped nanoantennas, shrinking the hologram and enabling a host of new applications.

Researchers from Minnesota and Seoul have developed a novel nanolithographic technique based on atomic layer deposition and ... Scotch Magic tape. Materials made using this new method show hugely nonlinear optical properties and promise to enhance our ability to fabricate nanostructures.

A group of European researchers has managed to send plasmonics signals over longer distances in a breakthrough that makes this technology much closer to reality.