Self-assembled nanoplasmonics

State-of-the-art plasmonic structures can be splitted into two classes depending on whether they were obtained by top-down or bottom-up processes. The former have been extensively studied but they remain to be large and simple in terms of feature size and architecture, respectively. The latter have only been made available recently and need much investigation of their near-field optical properties, yet they push the integration limit further and provide a new approach to complex architectures. Selfassembling of nanoparticles in complex superstructures is one of the suggested bottom-up approaches. We discuss the challenging problem of the light evanescent wave optical addressing in such structures and introduce a concept of multi-scale plasmonic architectures.