13.2 Spin-Based Plasmonic Effect in Nanoscale Structures . . . . . . . 464
13.3 Optical Spin Symmetry Breaking in Nanoapertures . . . . . . . . 470
13.4 Plasmonic Aharonov-Bohm Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
13.5 Spin-Dependent Plasmonics: Interfering Topological
Defects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
13.6 Optical Spin-Hall Effect from Plasmonic Nanoapertures . . . . . 484
13.7 Coupled Thermal Antenna Lattices and Rashba-like
Spin Degeneracy Violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
14 Plasmonics and Super-Hydrophobicity: A New Class
of Nano-Bio-Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
F. Gentile, M. L. Coluccio, A. Toma, A. Alabastri,
R. Proietti Zaccaria, G. Das, F. De Angelis, P. Candeloro,
C. Liberale, G. Perozziello, L. Tirinato, M. Leoncini
and E. Di Fabrizio
14.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
14.2 Super-Hydrophobicity: The Physical Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
14.2.1 The Physics of Drops and Surfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
14.2.2 Lattice Packings and SHSs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
14.2.3 Vanishingly Small Friction Coefficients of
SHSs and Evaporation Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
14.2.4 Consideration for an Optimal Design . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
14.3 Materials and Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
14.3.1 Fabrication of the Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
14.3.2 Samples SEM Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
14.3.3 Samples AFM Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
14.3.4 Fluorescence Microscopy Characterization
of Rhodamine deposits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
14.3.5 Raman Characterization of Rhodamine Deposits . . . . 513
14.4 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
14.5 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
14.6 Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
15 Cooperative Effects in Plasmonics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Vitaliy N. Pustovit and Tigran V. Shahbazyan
15.1 Plasmon-Mediated Superradiance Near Metal
Nanostructures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
15.1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
15.1.2 Plasmonic Coupling of Radiating Dipoles . . . . . . . . . 528
15.1.3 Radiated Energy of an Ensemble of
Dipoles Near Nanoparticle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
15.1.4 Discussion and Numerical Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
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13.3 Optical Spin Symmetry Breaking in Nanoapertures . . . . . . . . 470
13.4 Plasmonic Aharonov-Bohm Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
13.5 Spin-Dependent Plasmonics: Interfering Topological
Defects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
13.6 Optical Spin-Hall Effect from Plasmonic Nanoapertures . . . . . 484
13.7 Coupled Thermal Antenna Lattices and Rashba-like
Spin Degeneracy Violation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
14 Plasmonics and Super-Hydrophobicity: A New Class
of Nano-Bio-Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
F. Gentile, M. L. Coluccio, A. Toma, A. Alabastri,
R. Proietti Zaccaria, G. Das, F. De Angelis, P. Candeloro,
C. Liberale, G. Perozziello, L. Tirinato, M. Leoncini
and E. Di Fabrizio
14.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
14.2 Super-Hydrophobicity: The Physical Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
14.2.1 The Physics of Drops and Surfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
14.2.2 Lattice Packings and SHSs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
14.2.3 Vanishingly Small Friction Coefficients of
SHSs and Evaporation Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
14.2.4 Consideration for an Optimal Design . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
14.3 Materials and Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
14.3.1 Fabrication of the Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511
14.3.2 Samples SEM Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
14.3.3 Samples AFM Characterization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
14.3.4 Fluorescence Microscopy Characterization
of Rhodamine deposits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
14.3.5 Raman Characterization of Rhodamine Deposits . . . . 513
14.4 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
14.5 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
14.6 Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
15 Cooperative Effects in Plasmonics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Vitaliy N. Pustovit and Tigran V. Shahbazyan
15.1 Plasmon-Mediated Superradiance Near Metal
Nanostructures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
15.1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
15.1.2 Plasmonic Coupling of Radiating Dipoles . . . . . . . . . 528
15.1.3 Radiated Energy of an Ensemble of
Dipoles Near Nanoparticle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
15.1.4 Discussion and Numerical Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
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