Molecular junctions are building blocks for constructing future nanoelectronic devices that
enable the investigation of a broad range of electronic transport properties within nanoscale …

Plasmonic nanocavities are able to engineer and confine electromagnetic fields to
subwavelength volumes. In the past decade, they have enabled a large set of applications …

Atomic-sized plasmonic tunnel junctions are of fundamental interest, with great promise as
the smallest on-chip light sources in various optoelectronic applications. Several …

Because of the nonequilibrium nature of thermal effects at the nanoscale, the
characterization of local thermal effects within a single molecule is highly challenging. Here …

Coupling an intense electric field of terahertz (THz) pulse to a scanning tunneling
microscope (STM) has opened new avenues for conducting ultrafast electron manipulation …

Plasmonic nanoantennas can focus light at nanometer length scales providing intense field
enhancements. For the tightest optical confinements (0.5–5 nm) achieved in plasmonic …

Charged optical excitations (trions) generated by charge carrier injection are crucial for
emerging optoelectronic technologies as they can be produced and manipulated by electric …

The search for the signature of nonthermal (so-called “hot”) electrons in illuminated
plasmonic nanostructures requires detailed understanding of the nonequilibrium electron …

We report a significantly broad nonlinear optical response enhanced in a tip–substrate
plasmonic nanocavity. Focusing on the near-field second harmonics of the wavelength …

Plasmonic nanoantennas have attracted much attention lately, among other reasons
because of the directionality of light emitted by fluorophores coupled to their localized …