Applied Nanophotonics || Emerging nanophotonics

摘要： In this chapter a number of challenging trends in modern nanophotonics are highlighted that can be traced based on extensive research during the last decades. These are the colloidal technological platform, nanoplasmonics to enhance light–matter interaction, novel optical sensors based on nanostructures, advances toward the silicon photonic platform, negative refractive index materials, and single photon emitters. These novel trends and ideas, when seen together, provide a definite forecast for new exciting devices and systems to appear in the next decades and present nanophotonics as an extremely active and promising field of research and development.