Optical excitations with electron beams: Challenges and opportunities

FJ Garcia de Abajo, V Di Giulio - ACS photonics, 2021 - ACS Publications
Free electron beams such as those employed in electron microscopes have evolved into
powerful tools to investigate photonic nanostructures with an unrivaled combination of …

Probing nanoparticle plasmons with electron energy loss spectroscopy

Y Wu, G Li, JP Camden - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) performed in a scanning transmission electron
microscope (STEM) has demonstrated unprecedented power in the characterization of …

Optically Active MXenes in Van der Waals Heterostructures

MAK Purbayanto, M Chandel, M Birowska… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The vertical integration of distinct 2D materials in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures
provides the opportunity for interface engineering and modulation of electronic as well as …

MXenes for plasmonic photodetection

DB Velusamy, JK El‐Demellawi… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
MXenes have recently shown impressive optical and plasmonic properties associated with
their ultrathin‐atomic‐layer structure. However, their potential use in photonic and plasmonic …

Tunable Multipolar Surface Plasmons in 2D Ti3C2Tx MXene Flakes

JK El-Demellawi, S Lopatin, J Yin, OF Mohammed… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
2D Ti3C2 T x MXenes were recently shown to exhibit intense surface plasmon (SP)
excitations; however, their spatial variation over individual Ti3C2 T x flakes remains …

Plasmonic quantum size effects in silver nanoparticles are dominated by interfaces and local environments

A Campos, N Troc, E Cottancin, M Pellarin… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
The physical properties of metals change when their dimensions are reduced to the nano-
scale and new phenomena such as the localized surface-plasmon resonance (LSPR) …

Nanoscale map** of optically inaccessible bound-states-in-the-continuum

Z Dong, Z Mahfoud, R Paniagua-Domínguez… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Bound-states-in-the-continuum (BIC) is an emerging concept in nanophotonics with
potential impact in applications, such as hyperspectral imaging, mirror-less lasing, and …

Probing quantum optical excitations with fast electrons

V Di Giulio, M Kociak, FJG de Abajo - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Probing optical excitations with nanometer resolution is important for understanding their
dynamics and interactions down to the atomic scale. Electron microscopes currently offer the …

Electromagnetic density of states in complex plasmonic systems

R Carminati, A Cazé, D Cao, F Peragut… - Surface Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Nanostructured materials offer the possibility to tailor light–matter interaction at scales below
the wavelength. Metallic nanostructures benefit from the excitation of surface plasmons that …