Plasmonics with its proven role in sensing, surface-enhanced spectroscopy and energy transfer is fast evolving into a vast field with much broader scope heralding unprecedented applications. Recent advances in nano fabrication techniques have opened up novel directions: nanoscale heat transfer and thermal imaging, single molecule spectroscopy, light-matter interaction at nano scales, sub-diffraction-limited quantum information processing, biomedical imaging and diagnostics, nano-antennas for LEDs, NSOM and near-field probes etc. The list is ever-growing because of the dramatic growth of our understanding of materials sciences. With the novel meta-materials one can now push the negative refraction domain to optical frequencies. Advances in graphene-plasmonics have opened up unforeseen possibilities. One is now moving closer to the dream notion of a lab-on-a-chip.It is envisaged that the interactions at this Discussion Meeting would identify the future trends and techniques required to a...
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