Hybrid nanoparticles combining plasmonic and catalytic components have recently gained
interest for their potential use in sunlight‐to‐chemical energy conversion. However, a deep …

Colloidal semiconductor quantum dots are fluorescent nanocrystals exhibiting exceptional
optical properties, but their emission intensity strongly depends on their charging state and …

We report the design of highly efficient optical antennas employing a judicious synthesis of
metallic and dielectric materials. In the proposed scheme, a pair of metallic coupled …

Plasmonic antennas offer extremely promising strategies to enhance single molecule
fluorescence sensing and breach the limitations set by diffraction. However, the technical …

Since the 80's, specialists of gratings can rely on very powerful grating softwares [1-6].
These softwares are able to compute grating efficiencies for almost any kind of grating in any …

Plasmonic optical antennas enhance and control the emission of quantum sources in the far-
field. Interestingly, the antenna concept can also be applied to enhance the electric field …

Resonant interaction of light with nanoparticles is essential for a broad range of
nanophotonics and plasmonics applications, including optical antennas, photovoltaics …

In nanophotonics, multipole framework has become an indispensable theoretical tool for
analyzing subwavelength meta-atoms and their radiation properties. This work presents …

The transition matrix, frequently abbreviated as T-matrix, contains the complete information
in a linear approximation of how a spatially localized object scatters an incident field. The T …

We investigate the angular redistribution of light radiated by a single emitter located in the
vicinity of dipolar silver nanoparticles. We point out the fundamental role of the phase …