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20222026
most citedUnidirectional ultracompact DNA-templated optical antennas

22 citations · 54 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

physics.optics2026

Optical Magnetic-Field Gating of Photon Avalanching Quantum Processes

Benoît Reynier, Filippo Calavaro, Natalie Fardian-Melamed +8

Highly nonlinear phenomena, where macroscopic changes are triggered by microscopic perturbations, are ubiquitous in complex systems ranging from epidemic spreading to neural networ…

physics.optics2026

Synthesis of hybrid gold-protein nanobioconjugates with strongly enhanced circular dichroism

Yoann Prado, Victoire Ho, Maud Virolle +7

Controlling chiral light-matter interactions with nanophotonics is a powerful strategy for amplifying molecular circular dichroism (CD) beyond its natural limits. Here, we present…

physics.optics2025

All-optical directional switching of non-thermal photocurrents in plasmonic nanocircuits

Roméo Zapata, Diana Singh, Obren Markovic +9

Controlling the flow of electricity in metallic circuits with light is a key goal for future optoelectronics. In this work, we demonstrate all-optical generation and directional co…

physics.optics2025

Color Routing and Beam Steering of Single-Molecule Emission with a Spherical Silicon Nanoantenna

Maria Sanz-Paz, Nicole Siegel, Guillermo Serrera +7

Single-photon emitters radiate as electric dipoles, which limits light collection efficiency and complicates integration into flat photonic devices. Developing nanophotonic structu…

physics.optics2025

Distance dependent interaction between a single emitter and a single dielectric nanoparticle using DNA origami

Nicole Siegel, María Sanz-Paz, Javier González-Colsa +8

Optical nanoantennas can manipulate light-matter interactions at the nanoscale, modifying the emission properties of nearby single photon emitters. To date, most optical antennas a…

physics.optics2024★ 5 cited

Giant Purcell broadening and Lamb shift for DNA-assembled near-infrared quantum emitters

Sachin Verlekar, Maria Sanz-Paz, Mario Zapata-Herrera +6

Controlling the light emitted by individual molecules is instrumental to a number of novel nanotechnologies ranging from super-resolution bio-imaging and molecular sensing to quant…

physics.optics2023★ 18 cited

DNA origami assembled nanoantennas for manipulating single-molecule spectral emission

Maria Sanz-Paz, Fangjia Zhu, Nicolas Bruder +3

Optical nanoantennas can affect the decay rates of nearby emitters by modifying the local density of photonic states around them. In the weak-coupling limit, and according to the F…

physics.optics2023

Broadband plasmonic nanoantennas for multi-color nanoscale dynamics in living cells

Maria Sanz-Paz, Thomas S. van Zanten, Carlo Manzo +2

Recently, the implementation of plasmonic nanoantennas has opened new possibilities to investigate the nanoscale dynamics of individual biomolecules in living cell. However, studie…

physics.optics2022★ 22 cited

Unidirectional ultracompact DNA-templated optical antennas

Fangjia Zhu, Maria Sanz-Paz, Antonio Fernandez-Dominguez +5

Optical nanoantennas are structures designed to manipulate light-matter interactions at the nanoscale by interfacing propagating light with localized optical fields. In recent year…

physics.optics2022★ 9 cited

Optical ultracompact directional antenna based on a dimer nanorod structure

Fangjia Zhu, Maria Sanz-Paz, Antonio Fernandez-Dominguez +2

Controlling directionality of optical emitters is of utmost importance for their application in communication and biosensing devices. Metallic nanoantennas have been proven to affe…