Optically and electrically driven nanoantennas
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
In this thematic issue, we have collected peer-reviewed articles focused on recent progress achieved in the field of optical or electrical excitation of optical antennas. The focus is on fundamental mechanisms of light–matter interaction on the nanometer scale, novel fabrication methods, and prospective applications ranging from super-resolution chemical microscopy, sensing or light sources to novel quantum devices for optoelectronics. Furthermore, novel optical antennas with atomically narrow gaps allow for optically and electrically induced electron tunneling and open the door to nano-optics beyond classical electrodynamics.
Some topics covered in the manuscripts include:
- Plasmonic optical antennas
- Near-field enhancement
- Electrically driven nanoantennas
- Hot electron injection
- Ultrafast effects
- Nonlinear effects
- Fabrication of nanoantennas
- Hybrid nanoantenna systems
- SERS / TERS
- Optical nano-spectroscopy
- Nano-light sources and light amplification
- Applications of optical nanoantennas
Optically and electrically driven nanoantennas
- Monika Fleischer,
- Dai Zhang and
- Alfred J. Meixner
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1542–1545, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.136
Electromigrated electrical optical antennas for transducing electrons and photons at the nanoscale
- Arindam Dasgupta,
- Mickaël Buret,
- Nicolas Cazier,
- Marie-Maxime Mennemanteuil,
- Reinaldo Chacon,
- Kamal Hammani,
- Jean-Claude Weeber,
- Juan Arocas,
- Laurent Markey,
- Gérard Colas des Francs,
- Alexander Uskov,
- Igor Smetanin and
- Alexandre Bouhelier
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1964–1976, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.187
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Self-assembled quasi-hexagonal arrays of gold nanoparticles with small gaps for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
- Emre Gürdal,
- Simon Dickreuter,
- Fatima Noureddine,
- Pascal Bieschke,
- Dieter P. Kern and
- Monika Fleischer
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1977–1985, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.188
Dumbbell gold nanoparticle dimer antennas with advanced optical properties
- Janning F. Herrmann and
- Christiane Höppener
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2188–2197, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.205
Metal–dielectric hybrid nanoantennas for efficient frequency conversion at the anapole mode
- Valerio F. Gili,
- Lavinia Ghirardini,
- Davide Rocco,
- Giuseppe Marino,
- Ivan Favero,
- Iännis Roland,
- Giovanni Pellegrini,
- Lamberto Duò,
- Marco Finazzi,
- Luca Carletti,
- Andrea Locatelli,
- Aristide Lemaître,
- Dragomir Neshev,
- Costantino De Angelis,
- Giuseppe Leo and
- Michele Celebrano
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2306–2314, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.215
Directional light beams by design from electrically driven elliptical slit antennas
- Shuiyan Cao,
- Eric Le Moal,
- Quanbo Jiang,
- Aurélien Drezet,
- Serge Huant,
- Jean-Paul Hugonin,
- Gérald Dujardin and
- Elizabeth Boer-Duchemin
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2361–2371, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.221
Nanoantenna structures for the detection of phonons in nanocrystals
- Alexander G. Milekhin,
- Sergei A. Kuznetsov,
- Ilya A. Milekhin,
- Larisa L. Sveshnikova,
- Tatyana A. Duda,
- Ekaterina E. Rodyakina,
- Alexander V. Latyshev,
- Volodymyr M. Dzhagan and
- Dietrich R. T. Zahn
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2646–2656, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.246
Polarization-dependent strong coupling between silver nanorods and photochromic molecules
- Gwénaëlle Lamri,
- Alessandro Veltri,
- Jean Aubard,
- Pierre-Michel Adam,
- Nordin Felidj and
- Anne-Laure Baudrion
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2657–2664, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.247
Silencing the second harmonic generation from plasmonic nanodimers: A comprehensive discussion
- Jérémy Butet,
- Gabriel D. Bernasconi and
- Olivier J. F. Martin
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2674–2683, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.250
Low cost tips for tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy fabricated by two-step electrochemical etching of 125 µm diameter gold wires
- Antonino Foti,
- Francesco Barreca,
- Enza Fazio,
- Cristiano D’Andrea,
- Paolo Matteini,
- Onofrio Maria Maragò and
- Pietro Giuseppe Gucciardi
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2718–2729, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.254
Fabrication of silver nanoisland films by pulsed laser deposition for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
- Bogusław Budner,
- Mariusz Kuźma,
- Barbara Nasiłowska,
- Bartosz Bartosewicz,
- Malwina Liszewska and
- Bartłomiej J. Jankiewicz
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 882–893, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.89
Correlation of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) with the surface density of gold nanoparticles: evaluation of the critical number of SERS tags for a detectable signal
- Vincenzo Amendola
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1016–1023, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.102
Revisiting semicontinuous silver films as surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrates
- Malwina Liszewska,
- Bogusław Budner,
- Małgorzata Norek,
- Bartłomiej J. Jankiewicz and
- Piotr Nyga
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1048–1055, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.105
Nonlinear absorption and scattering of a single plasmonic nanostructure characterized by x-scan technique
- Tushar C. Jagadale,
- Dhanya S. Murali and
- Shi-Wei Chu
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2182–2191, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.211
Revealing the local crystallinity of single silicon core–shell nanowires using tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
- Marius van den Berg,
- Ardeshir Moeinian,
- Arne Kobald,
- Yu-Ting Chen,
- Anke Horneber,
- Steffen Strehle,
- Alfred J. Meixner and
- Dai Zhang
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2020, 11, 1147–1156, doi:10.3762/bjnano.11.99
