TY - CHAP AU - Karlo Queiroz da Costa AU - Gleida Tayanna Conde de Sousa AU - Paulo Rodrigues Amaral AU - Janilson Leão Souza AU - Tiago Dos Santos Garcia AU - Pitther Negrão dos Santos ED - Carlos J. Bueno-Alejo Y1 - 2019-08-06 PY - 2019 T1 - Wireless Optical Nanolinks with Yagi-Uda and Dipoles Plasmonic Nanoantennas N2 - During the last few years, nanomaterials have attracted the attention of the scientific community due to their extraordinary and unique properties. Their small size, and the distinctive features that come with it, makes these materials very attractive for use in different important fields like biomedicine, sensors, or catalysis. One of the most important properties of these materials is their interaction with light and is called surface plasmon resonance. It is a phenomenon that happens on the surface of certain nanomaterials that confers them with unique properties. This remarkable characteristic has opened a whole new field called nanoplasmonics that is acquiring more and more importance among the scientific community. This book aims to review the state of the art in this new field and provide the reader with a wide overview of the new nanomaterials available and their current and future applications. BT - Nanoplasmonics SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.88482 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.88482 SN - 978-1-78985-834-1 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-23 ER -