Plasmonic tweezers: for nanoscale optical trapping and beyond

Y Zhang, C Min, X Dou, X Wang, HP Urbach… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Optical tweezers and associated manipulation tools in the far field have had a major impact
on scientific and engineering research by offering precise manipulation of small objects …

Single-particle spectroscopy for functional nanomaterials

J Zhou, AI Chizhik, S Chu, D Jin - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Tremendous progress in nanotechnology has enabled advances in the use of luminescent
nanomaterials in imaging, sensing and photonic devices. This translational process relies …

In situ absorption characterization guided slot‐die‐coated high‐performance large‐area flexible organic solar cells and modules

YF Shen, H Zhang, J Zhang, C Tian, Y Shi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Slot‐die coating is recognized as the most compatible method for the roll‐to‐roll (R2R)
processing of large‐area flexible organic solar cells (OSCs). However, the photovoltaic …

Light-emitting metasurfaces

A Vaskin, R Kolkowski, AF Koenderink, I Staude - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
Photonic metasurfaces, that is, two-dimensional arrangements of designed plasmonic or
dielectric resonant scatterers, have been established as a successful concept for controlling …

Gold nanorods and their plasmonic properties

H Chen, L Shao, Q Li, J Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Gold nanorods have been receiving extensive attention owing to their extremely attractive
applications in biomedical technologies, plasmon-enhanced spectroscopies, and optical …

Fluorescence enhancement at docking sites of DNA-directed self-assembled nanoantennas

GP Acuna, FM Möller, P Holzmeister, S Beater… - Science, 2012 - science.org
We introduce self-assembled nanoantennas to enhance the fluorescence intensity in a
plasmonic hotspot of zeptoliter volume. The nanoantennas are prepared by attaching one or …

Unidirectional emission of a quantum dot coupled to a nanoantenna

AG Curto, G Volpe, TH Taminiau, MP Kreuzer… - Science, 2010 - science.org
Nanoscale quantum emitters are key elements in quantum optics and sensing. However,
efficient optical excitation and detection of such emitters involves large solid angles because …

Large single-molecule fluorescence enhancements produced by a bowtie nanoantenna

A Kinkhabwala, Z Yu, S Fan, Y Avlasevich, K Müllen… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Owing to the size mismatch between light and nanoscale objects such as single molecules,
it is important to be able to control light–molecule interactions,,,. Plasmonic nanoantennas …

Active nanoplasmonic metamaterials

O Hess, JB Pendry, SA Maier, RF Oulton, JM Hamm… - Nature materials, 2012 - nature.com
Optical metamaterials and nanoplasmonics bridge the gap between conventional optics and
the nanoworld. Exciting and technologically important capabilities range from …

Modified spontaneous emission in nanophotonic structures

M Pelton - Nature Photonics, 2015 - nature.com
Spontaneous emission is not an inherent property of a luminescent material; rather, it arises
due to interaction between the material and its local electromagnetic environment. Changing …