Optical studies of dynamics in noble metal nanostructures

GV Hartland - Chemical reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
The past several decades have seen tremendous advances in metal nanoparticle research.
This field involves workers from many different areas, including materials scientists …

Single cell optical imaging and spectroscopy

AS Stender, K Marchuk, C Liu, S Sander… - Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
In his 1665 treatise, Micrographia, Robert Hooke described the many observations he had
made using a microscope, including compartment-like structures in cork samples that he …

Optical absorption and scattering spectroscopies of single nano-objects

A Crut, P Maioli, N Del Fatti, F Vallée - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Developments of optical detection and spectroscopy methods for single nano-objects are
key advances for applications and fundamental understanding of the novel properties …

Plasmonic nanorod absorbers as orientation sensors

WS Chang, JW Ha, LS Slaughter… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Nanoparticles are actively exploited as biological imaging probes. Of particular interest are
gold nanoparticles because of their nonblinking and nonbleaching absorption and …

Size-dependent surface plasmon resonance broadening in nonspherical nanoparticles: single gold nanorods

V Juvé, MF Cardinal, A Lombardi, A Crut, P Maioli… - Nano …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The dependence of the spectral width of the longitudinal localized surface plasmon
resonance (LSPR) of individual gold nanorods protected by a silica shell is investigated as a …

Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Response of a Single Gold Nanorod<? format?> near Its Surface Plasmon Resonance

H Baida, D Mongin, D Christofilos, G Bachelier, A Crut… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
The ultrafast optical nonlinearity of an optically characterized single gold nanorod is
investigated around its surface plasmon resonance, by combining a far-field spatial …

Novel U-bent fiber optic probe for localized surface plasmon resonance based biosensor

VVR Sai, T Kundu, S Mukherji - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2009 - Elsevier
The aim of this study is to develop an optical absorbance based biosensor suitable for wide
scale use in resource-poor locales. A sensor for sensitive measurement of refractive index …

Optical second harmonic generation of single metallic nanoparticles embedded in a homogeneous medium

J Butet, J Duboisset, G Bachelier, I Russier-Antoine… - Nano …, 2010 - ACS Publications
We report the optical second harmonic generation from individual 150 nm diameter gold
nanoparticles dispersed in gelatin. The quadratic hyperpolarizability of the particles is …

Origin of optical second-harmonic generation in spherical gold nanoparticles: Local surface and nonlocal bulk contributions

G Bachelier, J Butet, I Russier-Antoine, C Jonin… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
The second-harmonic generation of 150 nm spherical gold nanoparticles is investigated
both experimentally and theoretically. We demonstrate that the interference effects between …

Acoustic vibrations of metal nano-objects: time-domain investigations

A Crut, P Maioli, N Del Fatti, F Vallée - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
Theoretical and time-domain experimental investigations of the vibrational acoustic
response of nano-objects are described focusing on metallic ones. Acoustic vibrations are …