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Ultraviolet Resonant Nanogap Antennas with Rhodium Nanocube Dimers for Enhancing Protein Intrinsic Autofluorescence
Prithu Roy, Siyuan Zhu, Jean-Benoît Claude +2
Plasmonic optical nanoantennas offer compelling solutions for enhancing light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. However, until now, their focus has been mainly limited to the v…
Achieving High Temporal Resolution in Single-Molecule Fluorescence Techniques using Plasmonic Nanoantennas
Sunny Tiwari, Prithu Roy, Jean-Benoît Claude +1
Single-molecule fluorescence techniques are essential for investigating the molecular mechanisms in biological processes. However, achieving sub-millisecond temporal resolution to…
Ultraviolet Nanophotonics Enables Autofluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy on Label-Free Proteins With a Single Tryptophan
Prithu Roy, Jean-Benoît Claude, Sunny Tiwari +2
Using the ultraviolet autofluorescence of tryptophan aminoacids offers fascinating perspectives to study single proteins without the drawbacks of fluorescence labelling. However, t…
Fluorescence Brightness, Photostability and Energy Transfer Enhancement of Immobilized Single Molecules in Zero-Mode Waveguides Nanoapertures
Satyajit Patra, Jean-Benoît Claude, Jérôme Wenger
Zero-mode waveguide (ZMW) nanoapertures are widely used to monitor single molecules beyond the range accessible to normal microscopes. However, several aspects of the ZMW influence…
Single Photon Source from a Nanoantenna-Trapped Single Quantum Dot
Quanbo Jiang, Prithu Roy, Jean-Benoît Claude +1
Single photon sources with high brightness and subnanosecond lifetimes are key components for quantum technologies. Optical nanoantennas can enhance the emission properties of sing…
Purcell radiative rate enhancement of label-free proteins with ultraviolet aluminum plasmonics
Aleksandr Barulin, Prithu Roy, Jean-Benoît Claude +1
The vast majority of proteins are intrinsically fluorescent in the ultraviolet, thanks to the emission from their tryptophan and tyrosine amino-acid constituents. However, the prot…
Preventing Corrosion of Aluminum Metal with Nanometer-Thick Films of Al2O3 Capped with TiO2 for Ultraviolet Plasmonics
Prithu Roy, Clémence Badie, Jean-Benoît Claude +6
Extending plasmonics into the ultraviolet range imposes the use of aluminum to achieve the best optical performance. However, water corrosion is a major limiting issue for UV alumi…
Titania-Based Spherical Mie Resonators Elaborated by High-Throughput Aerosol Spray: Single Object Investigation
Simona Checcucci, Thomas Bottein, Jean-Benoit Claude +6
In the framework of photonics with all-dielectric nanoantennas, sub-micro-metric spheres can be exploited for a plethora of applications including vanishing back-scattering, enhanc…
Plasmonic nano-optical trap stiffness measurements and design optimization
Quanbo Jiang, Jean-Benoît Claude, Jérôme Wenger
Plasmonic nano-optical tweezers enable the non-invasive manipulation of nano-objects under low illumination intensities, and have become a powerful tool for nanotechnology and biop…
Quantifying the Role of the Surfactant and the Thermophoretic Force in Plasmonic Nano-Optical Trapping
Quanbo Jiang, Benoît Rogez, Jean-Benoît Claude +2
Plasmonic nano-tweezers use intense electric field gradients to generate optical forces able to trap nano-objects in liquids. However, part of the incident light is absorbed into t…
Long-range Single Molecule Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Between Alexa Dyes in Zero-Mode Waveguides
Mikhail Baibakov, Satyajit Patra, Jean-Benoît Claude +1
Zero-mode waveguides (ZMW) nanoapertures milled in metal films were proposed to improve the FRET efficiency and enable single molecule FRET detection beyond the 10 nm barrier, over…
Deep UV plasmonic enhancement of single protein autofluorescence in zero-mode waveguides
Aleksandr Barulin, Jean-Benoît Claude, Satyajit Patra +2
Single molecule detection provides detailed information about molecular structures and functions, but it generally requires the presence of a fluorescent marker which can interfere…
Extending Single Molecule Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) Range Beyond 10 Nanometers in Zero-Mode Waveguides
Mikhail Baibakov, Satyajit Patra, Jean-Benoît Claude +3
Single molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) is widely used to monitor conformations and interactions dynamics at the molecular level. However, conventional smFRET me…
Temperature Measurement in Plasmonic Nanoapertures used for Optical Trapping
Quanbo Jiang, Benoît Rogez, Jean-Benoît Claude +2
Plasmonic nanoapertures generate strong field gradients enabling efficient optical trapping of nano-objects. However, because the infrared laser used for trapping is also partly ab…