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Wireless Energy Transfer for Space Applications: A Review of Technologies, Mission Architectures, Energy Routing, and System Integration
Lyuye Lin, Zhifu Feng, Ermanno Miele +6
Wireless energy transfer (WET) decouples energy generation from energy use, offering strategic advantages for distributed spacecraft, lunar surface networks, mobile assets, and hig…
Transformable Plasmonic Helix with Swinging Gold Nanoparticles
Andreas Peil, Pengfei Zhan, Xiaoyang Duan +4
Control over multiple optical elements that can be dynamically rearranged to yield substantial three-dimensional structural transformations is of great importance to realize reconf…
Nanoporous Metals: From Plasmonic Properties to Applications in Enhanced Spectroscopy and Photocatalysis
Alemayehu Nana Koya, Xiangchao Zhu, Nareg Ohannesian +6
The field of plasmonics is capable of enabling interesting applications in the different wavelength ranges, spanning from the ultraviolet up to the infrared. The choice of plasmoni…
Theoretical Analysis of Divalent Cation Effects on Aptamer Recognition of Neurotransmitter Targets
Douaki Ali, Stuber Annina, Hengsteler Julien +6
Aptamer-based sensing of small molecules such as dopamine and serotonin in the brain, requires characterization of the specific aptamer sequences in solutions mimicking the in vivo…
Plasmonic Photochemistry as a Tool to Prepare Metallic Nanopores with Controlled Diameter
German Lanzavecchia, Joel Kuttruff, Andrea Doricchi +8
We show that plasmonic solid-state nanopores with tunable hole diameter can be prepared via a photocatalytic effect resulting from the enhanced electromagnetic field inside a metal…
Advances in ultrafast plasmonics
Alemayehu Nana Koya, Marco Romanelli, Joel Kuttruff +22
In the past twenty years, we have reached a broad understanding of many light-driven phenomena in nanoscale systems. The temporal dynamics of the excited states are instead quite c…
Swarm of lightsail nanosatellites for Solar System exploration
Giovanni Santi, Alain J. Corso, Denis Garoli +13
This paper presents a study for the realization of a space mission which employs nanosatellites driven by an external laser source impinging on an optimized lightsail, as a valuabl…
Control of particle trapping in a magnetoplasmonic nanopore
Nicolò Maccaferri, Paolo Vavassori, Denis Garoli
Plasmonic nanopores are extensively investigated as single molecules detectors. The main limitations in plasmonic nanopore technology are the too fast translocation velocity of the…
Mirrors for space telescopes: degradation issues
D. Garoli, L. V. Rodriguez De Marcos, J. I. Larruquert +3
Mirrors are a subset of optical components essential for the success of current and future space missions. Most of the telescopes for space programs ranging from Earth Observation…
lambda DNA through a plasmonic nanopore What can be detected by means of Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering?
Aliaksandr Hubarevich, Jian-An Huang, Giorgia Giovannini +6
Engineered electromagnetic fields in plasmonic nanopores enable enhanced optical detection and their use in single molecule sequencing. Here, a plasmonic nanopore prepared in a thi…
Ultrafast all-optical switching enabled by epsilon-near-zero modes in metal-insulator nanocavities
Joel Kuttruff, Denis Garoli, Jonas Allerbeck +5
Ultrafast control of light-matter interactions constitutes a crucial feature in view of new technological frontiers of information processing. However, conventional optical element…
Galvanic Replacement Reaction to prepare nanoporous Aluminum for UV plasmonics
Denis Garoli, Giorgia Giovannini, Sandro Cattarin +9
Plasmonics applications have been extending into the ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Unfortunately the commonly used noble metals have intrinsic optical propert…
Electrophoretic deposition of WS2 flakes on nanoholes arrays. Role of the used suspension medium
Dario Mosconi, Giorgia Giovannini, Nicolo Maccaferri +4
Here we optimized the electrophoretic deposition process for the fabrication of WS2 plasmonic nanohole integrated structures. We showed how the conditions used for the site selecti…
Nanoparticles manipulation in 3D nanotips excited with plasmonic vortex
Xue Jin Zhang, Yuefeng Shen, Kai Liu +4
Recent advances in nanotechnologies have prompted the need for tools to accurately and non invasively manipulate individual nanoobjects. Among the possible strategies, optical forc…
Chemically-controlled self-assembly of hybrid plasmonic nanopores on graphene
Giorgia Giovannini, Matteo Ardini, Nicolo Maccaferri +6
Thanks to the spontaneous interaction between noble metals and biological scaffolds, nanomaterials with unique features can be achieved following relatively straightforward and cos…
SERS discrimination of single amino acid residue in single peptide by plasmonic nanocavities
Jian-An Huang, Mansoureh Z. Mousavi, Giorgia Giovannini +4
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a sensitive label-free optical method that can provide fingerprint Raman spectra of biomolecules such as DNA, amino acids and proteins…
Hybrid Metal-Dielectric Plasmonic Zero Mode Waveguide for Enhanced Single Molecule Detection
Xavier Zambrana-Puyalto, Paolo Ponzellini, Nicolo Maccaferri +6
We fabricated hybrid metal-dielectric nanoantennas and measured their optical response at three different wavelengths. The nanostructure is fabricated on a bilayer film formed by t…
Nanoporous Aluminum-Magnesium Alloy for UV enhanced spectroscopy
Paolo Ponzellini, Giorgia Giovannini, Sandro Cattarin +11
We report the first preparation of nanoporous Al-Mg alloy films by selective dissolution of Mg from a Mg-rich AlxMg1-x alloy. We show how to tune the stoichiometry, the porosity an…
Single-molecule DNA Bases Discrimination in Oligonucleotides by Controllable Trapping in Plasmonic Nanoholes
Jian-An Huang, Mansoureh Z. Mousavi, Yingqi Zhao +6
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) sensing of DNA sequences by plasmonic nanopores could pave a way to new generation single-molecule sequencing platforms. The SERS discrim…
3D Nanoporous Antennas for high sensitivity IR plasmonic sensing
Eugenio Calandrini, Giorgia Giovannini, Denis Garoli
Nanoporous gold can be exploited as plasmonic material for enhanced spectroscopy both in the visible and in the near infrared spectral regions. In particular, with respect to bulk…
High sensitivity nanoporous gold metamaterials for plasmonic sensing
Denis Garoli, Eugenio Calandrini, Giorgia Giovannini +3
Surface Plasmon Resonance sensors are a well-established class of sensors which includes a very large variety of materials and detection schemes. However, the development of portab…
Pump-probe Spectroscopy Study of Ultrafast Temperature Dynamics in Nanoporous Gold
Michele Ortolani, Andrea Mancini, Arne Budweg +3
We explore the influence of the nanoporous structure on the thermal relaxation of electrons and holes excited by ultrashort laser pulses ( fs) in thin gold films. Plasmon d…
Surface Thermal Gradients Activated by Enhanced Molecular Absorption in Mid-infrared Vertical Antenna Arrays
Andrea Mancini, Valeria Giliberti, Alessandro Alabastri +4
We investigate local heat generation by molecules at the apex of polymer-embedded vertical antennas excited at resonant mid-infrared wavelengths, exploiting the surface enhanced in…
Site-selective functionalization of plasmonic nanopores for enhanced fluorescence and Förster Resonance Energy Transfer
Xavier Zambrana-Puyalto, Nicolò Maccaferri, Paolo Ponzellini +3
In this work, we use a site-selective functionalization strategy to decorate plasmonic nanopores with one or more fluorescent dyes. Using an easy and robust fabrication method, we…