Reviews in Plasmonics 2016, the third volume of the new book series from Springer, serves as a comprehensive collection of current trends and emerging hot topics in the field of Plasmonics and closely related disciplines. It summarizes the years progress in surface plasmon phenomena and its applications, with authoritative analytical reviews in sufficient detail to be attractive to professional researchers, yet also appealing to the wider audience of scientists in related disciplines of Plasmonics.
Reviews in Plasmonics offers an essential source of reference material for any lab working in the Plasmonics field and related areas. All academics, bench scientists, and industry professionals wishing to take advantage of the latest and greatest in the continuously emerging field of Plasmonics will find it an invaluable resource.

Preface.- Plasmonic Nanowire Waveguide for Deep Subwavelength Confinement, Huizhong Xu.- Plasmon-enhanced fluorescence of rare earth nanocrystals, Ya-Fang Zhang et al.- Sensing through Surface Plasmon Resonance Technique, R. K. Gupta.- Fractal Plasmonic Nanoantennae, Ravi Sadananda Hegde.- Compact Slow-light Enhanced Plasmonic Waveguide Refractive Index Sensors, Yin Huang, Changjun Min, and Georgios Veronis.- Fabrication, Properties and Applications of Plasmene Nanosheet, Qianqian Shi, Dashen Dong, Kae Jye Si and Wenlong Cheng.- Experimental observation of melting of the effective Minkowski spacetime in cobalt-based ferrofluids, Igor I. Smolyaninov, Vera N. Smolyaninova.- Surface plasmon resonance based fiber optic sensors utilizing zinc oxide thin films and nanostructures, Banshi D. Gupta and Rana Tabassum.- Frontiers of Light Dynamics in Photonic Crystals, K. Senthilnathan.- LSPR Biosensing: Recent Advances and Approaches, Pranveer Singh.- Index.