Optical properties of hybrid organic‐inorganic materials and their applications

S Parola, B Julián‐López, LD Carlos… - Advanced Functional …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Research on hybrid inorganic‐organic materials has experienced an explosive growth since
the 1980s, with the expansion of soft inorganic chemistry based processes. Indeed, mild …

Plasmonic absorption enhancement in periodic cross-shaped graphene arrays

S Ke, B Wang, H Huang, H Long, K Wang, P Lu - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We present a wavelength tunable absorber composed of periodically patterned cross-
shaped graphene arrays in the far-infrared and THz regions. The absorption of the single …

Resonant gain singularities in 1D and 3D metal/dielectric multilayered nanostructures

V Caligiuri, L Pezzi, A Veltri, A De Luca - ACS nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
We present a detailed study on the resonant gain (RG) phenomena occurring in two
nanostructures, in which the presence of dielectric singularities is used to reach a huge …

Polymer‐Grafted Gold Colloids and Supracolloids: From Mechanisms of Formation to Dynamic Soft Matter

C Rossner - Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Gold nanoparticles represent nanosized colloidal entities with high relevance for both basic
and applied research. When gold nanoparticles are functionalized with polymer‐molecule …

Molecular fluorescence enhancement in plasmonic environments: exploring the role of nonlocal effects

C Tserkezis, N Stefanou, M Wubs, NA Mortensen - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular spontaneous emission and fluorescence depend strongly on the emitter local
environment. Plasmonic nanoparticles provide excellent templates for tailoring fluorophore …

Role of antenna modes and field enhancement in second harmonic generation from dipole nanoantennas

D de Ceglia, MA Vincenti, C De Angelis, A Locatelli… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We study optical second harmonic generation from metallic dipole antennas with narrow
gaps. Enhancement of the fundamental-frequency field in the gap region plays a marginal …

Double resonant plasmonic nanoantennas for efficient second harmonic generation in zinc oxide

N Weber, M Protte, F Walter, P Georgi, T Zentgraf… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We demonstrate the efficient generation of second harmonic light in zinc oxide (ZnO) by
utilizing double resonant plasmonic nanoantenna arrays. The antenna design is based on …

Long distance enhancement of nonlinear optical properties using low concentration of plasmonic nanostructures in dye doped monolithic sol–gel materials

D Chateau, A Liotta, H Lundén… - Advanced Functional …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Monolithic sol–gel silica composites incorporating platinum‐based chromophores and
various types of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are prepared and polished to high optical …

Role of emitter position and orientation on silicon nanoparticle-enhanced fluorescence

PE Stamatopoulou, C Tserkezis - OSA Continuum, 2021 - opg.optica.org
High-index spherical dielectric nanoparticles are explored as templates for tailoring the
fluorescence of nearby electric point-dipole-like emitters. The role of emitter orientation and …

Plasmonic enhancement of a silicon-vacancy center in a nanodiamond crystal

X Meng, S Liu, JI Dadap, RM Osgood Jr - Physical Review Materials, 2017 - APS
This work reports a rigorous and comprehensive three-dimensional electromagnetic
computation to investigate and design photoluminescence enhancement from a single …