Nanobiophotonics

Gabriel Popescu is an Assistant Professor at Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He and his colleagues started the Nanobiophotonics Summer School at the Beckman Institute in 2009. The school was sponsored by the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), which is funded by the National Science Foundation. Plans for future Nanobiophotonics Summer School sessions are currently underway.

Contributors; Preface; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1. Biology of the Cancer Cell; Chapter 2. Review of Electromagnetic Fields; Chapter 3. Introduction to Nanophotonics; Part II: Review of Methods; Chapter 4. Tissue Pathology: A Clinical Perspective; Chapter 5. Light Scattering in Inhomogeneous Media; Chapter 6. Theory of Second-Harmonic Generation; Chapter 7. Vision Restoration in the Nanobiophotonic Era; Chapter 8. Optical Low-Coherence Interferometric Techniques; Chapter 9. Plasmonics and Metamaterials; Part III: Current Research Areas; Chapter 10. Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging: An Integrative Approach to Pathology; Chapter 11. Scattering, Absorbing, and Modulating Nanoprobes for Coherence Imaging; Chapter 12. Second-Harmonic Generation Imaging of Collagen-Based Systems; Chapter 13. Plasmonics: Toward a New Paradigm for Light Manipulation at the Nanoscale; Chapter 14. Plasmon Resonance Energy Transfer; Chapter 15. Erythrocyte Nanoscale Flickering: A Marker for Disease; Chapter 15. Superresolution Far-Field Fluorescence Microscopy; Index