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Modifying Electrochemical Doping in Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells with Gold Nanoparticles
Ajay K. Poonia, Anton Kirch, Joan Ràfols-Ribé +8
Electrochemical doping offers dynamic control of the electronic properties of organic semiconductors, and it is the enabling feature of a range of technologies, including electroch…
Round-Robin Test of a Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cell: Establishing a Reference Protocol for Quality Research
Anton Kirch, Kumar Saumya, Joan Ràfols-Ribé +26
Emerging technologies benefit from a jointly established reference protocol, which can lower the bar of entry for new researchers while serving as a calibration standard for establ…
Ultrafast excitation of Bloch plasmon polaritons in hyperbolic metamaterials with an extreme ultra-violet transient grating
Tlek Tapani, Hannes Kempf, Matteo Pancaldi +14
Manipulating materials properties with light drives advances in materials science and photonics. Hyperbolic metamaterials are promising candidates as next-generation quantum optica…
Reconfigurable Magnetic Nanopore Platform for Selective Trapping
Nageswar Reddy Sanamreddy, Jeanne Maunier, Malavika Kayyil Veedu +5
Solid-state nanopores offer a powerful platform for nanoscale analysis of individual analytes, including biomolecules and functionalized nanoparticles, by confining them within a p…
Layered Bimetal Nanoporous Platforms for SERS Sensing
Yanqiu Zou, Anastasiia Sapunova, Tommaso Giovannini +15
Nanoporous metals are extensively investigated as platforms for applications in plasmonics. They present high surface areas and strong local electric fields that can be tuned at di…
Intervalence Plasmons in Boron-Doped Diamond
Souvik Bhattacharya, Jonathan Boyd, Sven Reichardt +8
Doped semiconductors can exhibit metallic-like properties ranging from superconductivity to tunable localized surface plasmon resonances. Diamond is a wide-bandgap semiconductor th…
New horizons in near-zero refractive index photonics and hyperbolic metamaterials
Michaël Lobet, Nathaniel Kinsey, Iñigo Liberal +7
The engineering of the spatial and temporal properties of both the electric permittivity and the refractive index of materials is at the core of photonics. When vanishing to zero,…
Magnetophotonics for sensing and magnetometry towards industrial applications
Conrad Rizal, Maria Grazia Manera, Daria O. Ignatyeva +5
Magnetic nanostructures sustaining different kinds of optical modes have been used for magnetometry and label-free ultrasensitive refractive index probing, where the main challenge…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Nanoscale magnetophotonics
Nicolò Maccaferri, Irina Zubritskaya, Ilya Razdolski +5
This Perspective surveys the state-of-the-art and future prospects of science and technology employing the nanoconfined light (nanophotonics and nanoplasmonics) in combination with…
Magnetoplasmonics in nanocavities: Dark plasmons enhance magneto-optics beyond the intrinsic limit of magnetoplasmonic nanoantennas
Alberto López-Ortega, Mario Zapata Herrera, Nicolò Maccaferri +4
Enhancing magneto-optical effects is crucial for size reduction of key photonic devices based on non-reciprocal propagation of light and to enable active nanophotonics. We disclose…
Coupling phenomena and collective effects in resonant meta-molecules supporting plasmonic and magnetic functionalities: a review
Nicolò Maccaferri
We review both the fundamental aspects and the applications of functional magneto-optic and opto-magnetic metamaterials displaying collective and coupling effects on the nanoscale,…
Tunable magnetoplasmonics in lattices of Ni/SiO/Au dimers
Sara Pourjamal, Mikko Kataja, Nicolò Maccaferri +2
We present a systematic study on the optical and magneto-optical properties of Ni/SiO/Au dimer lattices. By considering the excitation of orthogonal dipoles in the Ni and Au na…
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…
Controlled integration of MoS2 flakes on nanopores by means of electrophoretic deposition
Dario Mosconi, Andrea Jacassi, Giorgia Giovannini +7
We propose an easy and robust strategy for the versatile integration of 2D material flakes on plasmonic nanoholes by means of controlled deposition of MoS2 via electrophoretic proc…