1. List of Topics for Team Presentation Surface-enhanced Spectroscopy (100) Plasmonic Light Harvesting (150) Mie Theory (100)

2. Presentation should include Principle Other competitors Applications AdvantagesDisadvantagesAdvantages & Disadvantages Presentation will start on 1st of June for 2 weeks Individual report due 10 th of June

3. Interaction of Light and Metallic Nanoparticles

4. Nanoparticle Lies in between two!!! From Mie theory

5. Why Nanoparticle So Unique?

6. Elastic Scattering of Light from Metal Nanoparticles White light Excitation Group oscillation of electron cloud Noble metal nanostructure Extinction Resonance Frequency

7. Why we see all different colours ?

8. Electromagnetic Spectrum

9. Drude Model The transport properties of electrons in metals Electrons do not interfere with each other Only instantaneous collision between a free electron and lattice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyX5I_io7bg

10. Simple Role-Playing