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Nanoscale Photonic Devices

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Photonics is a subject area dealing with the emission, transmission, modulation, processing and sensing of light signals. A photonic device is an entity, constructed with the purpose to facilitate any or all of the above processes. This definition can be made almost indefinitely broad, requiring a much wider scope than this thesis for sufficient coverage. The inclusion of nanoscale in the heading narrows things down a bit to devices that fit into the size regime of 1–100 nm. I will go even further, by restricting the discussion to assemblies based on Förster type energy transfer and whose main functionalities are to transmit and modulate excitation energy. This way, the chapter creates a logic transition to the work presented in papers 1–3. Since one-step FRET between a single donor and a single acceptor is fairly limited when it comes to designing devices where photonic processes are the main functionalities, the designs featured in this chapter will almost exclusively rely on energy transfer between multiple fluorophores in multiple steps. Since many of the devices rely on excitation energy transfer through multiple fluorophores, it is logical to start the discussion with the light-harvesting complexes of photosynthetic bacteria. These advanced self-assembled systems rely on energy transfer in multiple steps to deliver excitation energy to the bacterial reaction center and has served as inspiration for the design of many of the devices discussed in this chapter.

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Hannestad, J. (2013). Nanoscale Photonic Devices. In: Fluorescence in Bio-inspired Nanotechnology. Springer Theses. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01068-7_5

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