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Enhanced nonlinear optical response of single metal-dielectric nanocavities resonating in the near-infrared
Nicolò Maccaferri, Attilio Zilli, Tommi Isoniemi +5
Harmonic generation mechanisms are of great interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology, since they allow generating visible light by using near-infrared radiation, which is particu…
Hyperbolic Metamaterial Nanoparticles for Efficient Hyperthermia in the II and III Near-Infrared Windows
Yingqi Zhao, Marzia Iarossi, Nicolò Maccaferri +6
The use of gold nanoparticles for hyperthermia therapy in near infrared (NIR) spectral regions has catalysed substantial research efforts due to the potential impact in clinical th…
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…
Designer Bloch Plasmon Polariton Dispersion in Hyperbolic Meta-Gratings
Nicolò Maccaferri, Tommi Isoniemi, Michael Hinczewski +3
Hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs) represent a novel class of fascinating anisotropic plasmonic materials, supporting highly confined propagating plasmon polaritons in addition to sur…
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…
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…
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…
Cell membrane disruption by vertical nanopillars: the role of membrane bending and traction forces
Rosario Capozza, Valeria Caprettini, Carlo A. Gonano +4
Gaining access to the cell interior is fundamental for many applications, such as electrical recording, drug and biomolecular delivery. A very promising technique consists of cultu…
Multiband Plasmonic Sierpinski Carpet Fractal Antennas
Francesco De Nicola, Nikhil Santh Puthiya Purayil, Davide Spirito +7
Deterministic fractal antennas are employed to realize multimodal plasmonic devices. Such structures show strongly enhanced localized electromagnetic fields typically in the infrar…
Nanoporous gold leaves: plasmonic behavior in the visible and mid-infrared spectral regions
Denis Garoli, Gianluca Ruffato, Pierfrancesco Zilio +4
A robust and reproducible preparation of self-standing nanoporous gold leaves (NPGL) is presented, with optical characterization and plasmonic behaviour analysis. Nanoporous gold (…
Fractal-like plasmonic self-similar material with a tailorable plasma frequency in the near-infrared
Denis Garoli, Eugenio Calandrini, Angelo Bozzola +4
In this work, we show that modulating the fractal dimension of nanoporous gold allows its effective dielectric response to be tailored over a wide spectral range of infrared wavele…
Thermoplasmonic Effect of Surface Enhanced Infrared Absorption in Vertical Nanoantenna Arrays
Andrea Mancini, Valeria Giliberti, Alessandro Alabastri +4
The temperature increase and temperature gradients induced by mid-infrared laser illumination of vertical gold nanoantenna arrays embedded into polymer layers was measured directly…
Magnetic Control of Transmission and Helicity of Nano-Structured Optical Beams in Magnetoplasmonic Vortex Lenses
Nicolò Maccaferri, Yuri Gorodetski, Andrea Toma +3
We theoretically investigate the generation of far-field propagating optical beams with a desired orbital angular momentum by using an archetypical magnetoplasmonic tip surrounded…