1. Raman spectroscopy applied to biomolecule characterization / Catalina David -- 2. Biomedical vibrational spectroscopy / Wolfgang Petrich -- 3. Bioreceptor functionalization of gold-coated sensor surfaces / Daria Prilutsky, Lev Tsapovsky, and Robert S. Marks -- 4. Magnetic nanoparticle surface functionalization for biomedical applications / F. Geinguenaud. [et al.] -- 5. Propagating and standing-wave plasmonic modes in low-dimensional atomic-scale objects / Tadaaki Nagao -- 6. Antenna interaction in the infrared / Daniel Weber and Annemarie Pucci -- 7. Enhanced spectroscopies and surface plasmon thin-film sensors / Ibrahim Abdulhalim -- 8. Nanostructures for plasmonics : design, fabrication, and characterization / Andrea Toma. [et al.] -- 9. Surface-enhanced infrared spectroscopy / Frank Neubrech and Annemarie Pucci -- 10. Surface-enhanced raman scattering : application to molecular sensing / N. Felidj and M. Lamy de la Chapelle -- 11. Surface plasmon resonance biosensors : model and optimization / Dominique Barchiesi -- 12. Coherent anti-stokes raman scattering microscopy / Nadia Djaker-Oudjhara -- 13. Multi-signal processing biosensors and bioactuators based on biocomputing concept / Evgeny Katz and Arcan Guven.