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Nanotechnology

Nanoplasmonics

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Deep Learning Image Analysis of Nanoplasmonic Sensors: Toward Medical Breath Monitoring

November 23, 2022
Author(s)
Yangyang Zhao, Boqun Dong, Kurt D. Benkstein, Lei Chen, Kristen L. Steffens, Stephen Semancik
Sensing biomarkers in exhaled breath offers a potentially portable, cost-effective, and noninvasive strategy for disease diagnosis screening and monitoring, while high sensitivity, wide sensing range, and target specificity are critical challenges. We

Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging

October 24, 2022
Author(s)
Jeremy Schultz
Atomic scale spectroscopy provides an exceptional ability to define electronic, optical, thermal, mechanical, and chemical properties of materials at the nanoscale. At these scales, dimensional confinement can lead to new and unusual properties, where the

Broadband Nanoscale Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy by Multiresonant Nanolaminate Plasmonic Nanocavities on Vertical Nanopillars

August 8, 2022
Author(s)
Meitong Nie, Yuming Zhao, Wonil Nam, Junyeob Song, Wenqi Zhu, Henri Lezec, Amit Agrawal, Wei Zhou
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has become a sensitive detection technique for biochemical analysis. Despite significant research efforts, most SERS substrates consisting of single-resonant plasmonic nanostructures on the planar surface suffer

Substrate-enhanced photothermal nano-imaging of surface polaritons in monolayer graphene

April 1, 2021
Author(s)
Samuel Berweger, Fabian Menges, Honghua Yang, Tao Jiang, Markus B. Raschke
Surface polaritons comprise a wealth of light-matter interactions with deep subwavelength scale confinement of electromagnetic modes. However, their nanoscale localized dissipation and thermalization processes are not readably accessible experimentally

From single-particle-like to interaction-mediated plasmonic resonances in graphene nanoantennas

March 4, 2021
Author(s)
Marvin M. Muller, Miriam Kosik, Marta Pelc, Garnett W. Bryant, Andres Ayuela, Carsten Rockstuhl, Karolina Slowik
Plasmonic nanostructures attract tremendous attention as they confine electromagnetic fields well below the diffraction limit while simultaneously sustaining extreme local field enhancements. To fully exploit these properties, the identification and

Endothermic reaction at room temperature enabled by deep-ultraviolet plasmons

November 2, 2020
Author(s)
Canhui Wang, Wei-Chang Yang, David Raciti, Alina Bruma, Ronald Marx, Amit Agrawal, Renu Sharma
Sequestration and conversion of CO2 is a promising method for remedying climate change. However, current technologies remain limited due to infeasible system demands and outputs, such as high-temperature/pressure conditions, use of precious metals, or low

Plasmonic Electronic Raman Scattering as Internal Standard for Spatial and Temporal Calibration in Quantitative Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

October 28, 2020
Author(s)
Wonil Nam, Yuming Zhao, Junyeob Song, Seied Ali Safiabadi Tali, Seju Kang, Wenqi Zhu, Henri Lezec, Amit Agrawal, Peter J. Vikesland, Wei Zhou
Ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) still faces difficulties in quantitative analysis because of its susceptibility to local optical field variations at plasmonic hotspots in metallo-dielectric nanostructures. Current SERS calibration

Energy-Based Plasmonicity Index to Characterize Optical Resonances in Nanostructures

October 27, 2020
Author(s)
Marvin M. Muller, Miriam Kosik, Marta Pelc, Garnett Bryant, Andres Ayuela, Carsten Rockstuhl, Karolina Slowik
Resonances sustained by plasmonic nanoparticles provide extreme electric field confinement and enhancement into the deep subwavelength domain for a plethora of applications. Recent progress in nanofabrication made it even possible to tailor the properties

Plasmon Lasers

August 26, 2020
Author(s)
Wenqi Zhu, Shawn M. Divitt, Matthew S. Davis, Cheng Zhang, Ting Xu, Henri Lezec, Amit Agrawal
Recent advancements in the ability to design, fabricate and characterize optical and optoelectronic devices at the nanometer scale have led to tremendous developments in the miniaturization of optical systems and circuits. Development of wavelength scale

Chiroptical response of aluminum nano-crescents at ultraviolet wavelengths

April 21, 2020
Author(s)
Matthew S. Davis, Wenqi Zhu, Jared Strait, Jay K. Lee, Henri Lezec, Steve Blair, Amit Agrawal
Manipulation of plasmon modes at ultraviolet wavelengths using engineered nanophotonic devices allows for the development of high-sensitivity chiroptical spectroscopy systems. We present here a framework for the fabrication and characterization of Al based

Comparable Enhancement of TERS signals from WeSe2 on Chromium and Gold.

April 6, 2020
Author(s)
Albert Davydov, Sergiy Krylyuk, Angela R. Hight Walker, Bojan R. Ilic, Andrey Krayev, Ashish Bhattarai, Alan G. Joly, Matej Velicky, Patrick Z. El-Khoury
Plasmonic tip-sample junctions, at which the incident and scattered optical fields are localized and optimally enhanced, are often exploited to achieve ultrasensitive and highly spatially localized tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS). Recent work has

Nano-opto-electro-mechanical switches operated at CMOS-level voltages

November 15, 2019
Author(s)
Christian Haffner, Andreas Joerg, Michael Doderer, Daniel Chelladurai, Felix Mayor, Comsin Ioan Roman, Yuriy Fedoryshyn, Mikael Mazur, Maurizio Burla, Henri J. Lezec, Vladimir A. Aksyuk, Juerg Leuthold
Reprogrammable optical networks that operate in symbiosis with CMOS electronics promise to advance technologies such as optical neural networks. However, current electro-optical switching technologies fail to combine CMOS-voltages, micrometer-scale

Ultrathin Wetting Layer-Free Plasmonic Gold Films

October 3, 2019
Author(s)
Robert Lemasters, Cheng Zhang, Manoj Manjare, Wenqi Zhu, Junyeob Song, Sergei Urazhdin, Henri Lezec, Amit Agrawal, Hayk Harutyunyan
Ultrathin gold films are attractive for plasmonic and metamaterial devices, thanks to their useful optical and optoelectronic properties. However, deposition of ultrathin continuous Au films of few nanometer thickness is challenging and generally requires

Near-infrared photonic phase-change properties of transition metal ditellurides.

September 23, 2019
Author(s)
Albert Davydov, Sergiy Krylyuk, Yifei Li, Akshay Singh, Rafael Jaramillo
We use the (Mo,W)Te2 system to explore the potential of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) as phasechange materials for integrated photonics. We measure the complex optical constant of MoTe2 in both the 2H and 1T’ phases by spectroscopic ellipsometry

Miniaturized Nanohole Array Based Plasmonic Sensor for the Detection of Acetone and Ethanol with Insights into the Kinetics of Adsorptive Plasmonic Sensing

June 6, 2019
Author(s)
Yangyang Zhao, Kalisadhan Mukherjee, Kurt D. Benkstein, Libin Sun, Kristen L. Steffens, Christopher B. Montgomery, Stephen Semancik, Mona Zaghloul
The present work demonstrates development of a miniaturized plasmonic platform comprised of a Au nanohole array (NHA) on a Si/Si3N4 substrate. Plasmonic responses of the NHA platform, which is coated with Cu-benzenetricarboxylate metal organic framework

Robust Extraction of Hyperbolic Metamaterial Permittivity using Total Internal Reflection Ellipsometry

June 20, 2018
Author(s)
Cheng Zhang, Nina Hong, Chengang Ji, Wenqi Zhu, Xi Chen, Amit K. Agrawal, Zhong Zhang, Tom E. Tiwald, Stefan Schoeche, James N. Hilfiker, L. Jay Guo, Henri J. Lezec
Hyperbolic metamaterials are optical materials characterized by highly anisotropic effective permittivity tensor components having opposite signs along orthogonal directions. The techniques currently employed for characterizing the optical properties of

Waveguide coupling via magnetic gratings with effective strips

April 14, 2018
Author(s)
Kevin Roccapriore, David Lyvers, Dean Brown, Ekaterina Poutrina, Augustine Urbas, Thomas Germer, Vladimir Drachev
Gratings with complex multilayer strips are studied under inclined incident light. Great interest in these gratings is due to applications as input/output tools for waveguides and as subwavelength metafilms. The structured strips introduce anisotropy in
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