Semiconductors in all dimensionalities ranging from 0D quantum dots and molecules to 3D
bulk crystals support bound electron–hole pair quasiparticles termed excitons. Over the past …

Picocavities are sub-nanometer-scale optical cavities recently found to trap light, which are
formed by single-atom defects on metallic facets. Here, we develop simple picocavity …

Strong light-matter coupling provides the means to challenge the traditional rules of
chemistry. In particular, an energy inversion of singlet and triplet excited states would be …

The analysis of nonlinear optical properties of thiazine dye molecules of Methylene Blue
(MB+), located in the near-field zone of spherical gold nanoparticles, coated with a silicon …

The ability to control the motion of single nanoparticles or molecules is currently one of the
major scientific and technological challenges. Despite tremendous progress in the field of …

Developing highly enhanced plasmonic nanocavities allows direct observation of light–
matter interactions at the nanoscale. With DNA origami, the ability to precisely nanoposition …

Nonlinear molecular interactions with optical fields produce intriguing optical phenomena
and applications ranging from color generation to biomedical imaging and sensing. The …

Plasmons in nanostructured metals are widely utilized to trigger strong light-matter
interactions with quantum light sources. While the nonclassical behavior of such quantum …

Controlling the light emitted by individual molecules is instrumental to a number of advanced
nanotechnologies ranging from super-resolution bioimaging and molecular sensing to …

Challenges investigating molecules on plasmonic nanostructures have limited
understanding of these interactions. However, the chemically specific information in the …