Nano-Optics: Principles Enabling Basic Research and Applications

Part I: Lectures.- Light-Matter Interactions: A Coupled Oscillator Description; L. Novotny.- Luminescence Spectroscopy of Nanophosphors; B. Di Bartolo.- Nanomaterials: basic concepts and quantum models; M. Cesaria and Baldassare Di Bartolo.- Non-Radiative Processes In Nanocrystals; J. Collins.- 3d Optical Laser Lithography; M. Wegener.- Nanostructures And Nanocrystals With Radiation Color Centers: Characteristics And Some Applications; A. Voitovich.- Colloidal Nanophotonics: State-Of-The-Art And Prospective; S. Gaponenko.- Ultrafast Nano-Biophotonics; J.-P. Wolf.- Circuit Optomechanics With Diamond Integrated Optical Devices; W. Pernice.- Terahertz Sensing At The Nanoscale; J. Bowen.-How Latitude Location On A Micro-World Enables Real-Time Nanoparticle Sizing; S. Arnold.- Nanoplasmonic And Microfluidic Devices For Biological Sensing; E. Di Fabrizio.- High-Throughput And Ultra-Sensitive Biosensing And Spectroscopy By Plasmonics; H. Altug.- Photoemission From Nanomaterials In Strong Few-Cycle Laser Fields; M. Kling.- Luminescence Of Er 3+ Ions In Nanocrystalline Glass-Ceramics; R. Balda.- Localization Of Yb3+, Er3+ And Co2+ Dopants In An Optical Glass Ceramic Of Mgal2o4 Spinel Nano-Crystals Embedded In Sio2 Glass; G. Boulon.- Nd3+, Eu3+ And Yb3+ Ions As Structural Probes In The Scheelite-Type Cadmium Molybdates With Vacancies; M. Guzik.- Medical Applications Of Nanomaterials; A. Vedda.- Emission Cross Section, Füchtbauer-Ladenburg Equation, And Purcell Factor; M. Pollnau.- Anatoliy Pinchuk - Surface Plasmon Enhanced Fluorescence of Glycine-Dimer-Functionalized Silver Nanoparticles; A. Pinchuk.- Part II: Interdisciplinary Lecturers.- Andrea Pozzo: The Art of Perspective; E. Silvestri.-Part III: Short Seminars.- Part IV: Posters.- Part V: List of Participants.- Index.