Single-molecule optoelectronic devices promise a potential solution for miniaturization and
functionalization of silicon-based microelectronic circuits in the future. For decades of its fast …

Surface plasmons in metals promise many fascinating properties and applications in optics,
sensing, photonics and nonlinear fields. Plasmonic nanostructures with extremely small …

Conspectus Historically, molecular spectroscopists have focused their attention to the right-
hand side of the Schrödinger equation. Our major goal had and still has to do with …

The description of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) as a molecular
optomechanical process has provided new insights into the vibrational dynamics and …

Optoelectronic properties of atomic thin van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) comprising
transition metal dichalcogenides that harvest light energy are of paramount interest. In this …

Tip-based photoemission spectroscopic techniques have now achieved subnanometer
resolution that allows visualization of the chemical structure and even the ground-state …

Fundamental understanding of chemistry and physical properties at the nanoscale enables
the rational design of interface-based systems. Surface interactions underlie numerous …

The integration of surface plasmons with catalysis has opened a new frontier in the field of
chemical energy conversion, offering unprecedented opportunities for enhancing reaction …

The review describes electrochemical applications of tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
(TERS). These applications combine the merits of both scanning probe microscopy (SPM) …

We record local optical field images of silver nanocubes (75 nm) using tip-enhanced Raman
(TER) spectral imaging. The images that we observe are consistent with several recent …