chapter 1. Plasmonic nanorod-based optical recording and data storage / James W. M. Chon, Adam B. Taylor, and Peter Zijlstra -- chapter 2. Integrated plasmonic nanodevices / Haroldo T. Hattori, Ivan D. Rukhlenko, Ziyuan Li, and Malin Premaratne -- chapter 3. Plasmonic solutions for light harvesting in solar and sensing applications / Saulius Juodkazis, Lorenzo Rosa, and Yoshiaki Nishijima -- chapter 4. Polarization-dependent plasmonic chiral devices / Byoungho Lee and Seung-Yeol Lee -- chapter 5. Optical metamaterials and their fabrication techniques / Takuo Tanaka -- chapter 6. Resonant nanometric apertures in metallic films / Ann Roberts and Xiao Ming Goh -- chapter 7. Plasmon coupling enhanced in nanostructured chem/bio sensors / D. Keith Roper, Phillip Blake, Drew DeJarnette, and Braden Harbin -- chapter 8. Advances in surface plasmon resonance sensing / Brent D. Cameron and Rui Zheng.