Introduction to Nanophotonics , Sergey V.Gaponenko Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2010. $78.00 (465 pp.). ISBN 978-0-521-76375-2

The study of electronic and electromagnetic physics, specifically at the nanoscale, has become as exciting, productive, and fascinating as any other research area with which it competes for funding, graduate students, and audiences. Bulk materials have been studied for decades, but in the past 10 years or so, new fabrication processes and technologies have enabled the production of samples with well-defined, optical-wavelength-range structural properties. Those advances have opened up the field of nanophotonics, the discipline in which nanotechnology and nanoscience generate the photonic conditions necessary for controlled interactions between light and matter.

In Introduction to Nanophotonics, Sergey Gaponenko expertly and comprehensively introduces the key concepts, theory, and experiments that reflect the beauty of the photonic nanoworld. Despite the field’s diversity of topics, the book’s presentation is logical, elegant, and delightful:...

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