Definition of "nanoplasmonics" [nanoplasmonics]

• Plasmonics involving nanofabricated systems (noun)

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• "Just as microelectronics exploits the behaviour of electrons in metals and semiconductors on micrometre scales, so nanoplasmonics is concerned with the nanoscale comings and goings of entities known as plasmons that lurk on and below the surfaces of metals… SPASERS!"
• "Ultra-fast computers running on light could be built after all, thanks to the new field of nanoplasmonics - and the tiniest lasers ever made"
• "Dubbed a "spaser", this minuscule lasing object is the latest by-product of a buzzing field known as nanoplasmonics."