Advances in plasmonics have been fundamentally rooted in minimizing ohmic losses in metallic nanostructures. However, the losses at resonance can play a positive role; for instance, in optical heating, there are two sides ...

© 2020 Author(s). This paper reports on simulations of laser-induced heating in gold nanotip. The simulation was carried out using Lumerical software. Highly enhanced optical field can induce thermal transport in nanotip ...