Core–shell nanoparticle-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

JF Li, YJ Zhang, SY Ding, R Panneerselvam… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Core–shell nanoparticles are at the leading edge of the hot research topics and offer a wide
range of applications in optics, biomedicine, environmental science, materials, catalysis …

Cucurbituril-based molecular recognition

SJ Barrow, S Kasera, MJ Rowland, J Del Barrio… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The product of the condensation reaction between glycoluril and formaldehyde was first
reported in a thesis by Eberhard Meyer in 1904 (1) and then published by Behrend and co …

Single-molecule optomechanics in “picocavities”

F Benz, MK Schmidt, A Dreismann, R Chikkaraddy… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Trap** light with noble metal nanostructures overcomes the diffraction limit and can
confine light to volumes typically on the order of 30 cubic nanometers. We found that …

Plasmonic phenomena in molecular junctions: principles and applications

M Wang, T Wang, OS Ojambati, TJ Duffin… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Molecular junctions are building blocks for constructing future nanoelectronic devices that
enable the investigation of a broad range of electronic transport properties within nanoscale …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum mechanical effects in plasmonic structures with subnanometre gaps

W Zhu, R Esteban, AG Borisov, JJ Baumberg… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Metallic structures with nanogap features have proven highly effective as building blocks for
plasmonic systems, as they can provide a wide tuning range of operating frequencies and …

Sub-cycle optical phase control of nanotunnelling in the single-electron regime

T Rybka, M Ludwig, MF Schmalz, V Knittel, D Brida… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The high peak electric fields provided by single-cycle light pulses can be harnessed to
manipulate and control charge motion in solid-state systems, resulting in electron emission …

Atomic-scale lightning rod effect in plasmonic picocavities: A classical view to a quantum effect

M Urbieta, M Barbry, Y Zhang, P Koval… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic gaps are known to produce nanoscale localization and enhancement of optical
fields, providing small effective mode volumes of about a few hundred nm3. Atomistic …

Plasmonic particle-on-film nanocavities: a versatile platform for plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy and photochemistry

GC Li, Q Zhang, SA Maier, D Lei - Nanophotonics, 2018 - degruyter.com
Metallic nanostructures with nanometer gaps support hybrid plasmonic modes with an
extremely small mode volume and strong local field intensity, which constitutes an attractive …

Mesoscopic electrodynamics at metal surfaces: —From quantum-corrected hydrodynamics to microscopic surface-response formalism

NA Mortensen - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
Plasmonic phenomena in metals are commonly explored within the framework of classical
electrodynamics and semiclassical models for the interactions of light with free-electron …

Sub-femtosecond electron transport in a nanoscale gap

M Ludwig, G Aguirregabiria, F Ritzkowsky, T Rybka… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
The strong fields associated with few-cycle pulses can drive highly nonlinear phenomena,
allowing the direct control of electrons in condensed matter systems. In this context, by …