This book presents cutting-edge research advances in the rapidly growing areas of nanoantennas and plasmonics as well as their related enabling technologies and applications. It provides a comprehensive treatment of the field on subjects ranging from fundamental theoretical principles and new technological developments, to state-of-the-art device design, as well as examples encompassing a wide range of related sub-areas. The content of the book also covers highly-directive nanoantennas, all-dielectric and tuneable/reconfigurable devices, metasurface optical components, and other related topics.

• Chapter 1: Optical properties of plasmonic nanoloop antennas
• Chapter 2: Passive and active nano cylinders for enhanced and directive radiation and scattering phenomena
• Chapter 3: Coherent control of light scattering
• Chapter 4: Time domain modeling with the generalized dispersive material model
• Chapter 5: Inverse-design of plasmonic and dielectric optical nanoantennas
• Chapter 6: Multi-level carrier kinetics models for computational nanophotonics
• Chapter 7: Nonlinear multipolar interference: from nonreciprocal directionality to one-way nonlinear mirror
• Chapter 8: Plasmonic metasurfaces for controlling harmonic generations
• Chapter 9: Optical nanoantennas for enhanced THz emission
• Chapter 10: Active photonics based on phase-change materials and reconfigurable nanowire systems
• Chapter 11: Dancing angels on the point of a needle: nanofabrication for subwavelength optics