Nano-Optics Division Highlights

Nature Reviews Methods primers

Interferometric scattering microscopy

ACS Publications

High-Resolution Cryogenic Spectroscopy of Single Molecules in Nanoprinted Crystals

Nature Communications

An optofluidic antenna for enhancing the sensitivity of single-emitter measurements

Physical Review Letters

Exploring the Physics of Basic Medical Research

Nature Methods

A paintbrush for delivery of nanoparticles and molecules to live cells

Optica

On-chip interference of scattering from two individual molecules

Nature Communications

Confocal interferometric scattering microscopy reveals 3D nanoscopic structure and dynamics in live cells

ACS Nano

Robust Tipless Positioning Device for Near-Field Investigations: Press and Roll Scan (PROscan)

Nature Methods

Precision size and refractive index analysis of weakly scattering nanoparticles in polydispersions

Nature Methods

Self-supervised machine learning pushes the sensitivity limit

Physical Review Letters

Four-Wave Mixing and Optical Switching at the Single-Photon Level

Physical Review Applied

Nanostructured Alkali-Metal Vapor Cells

Physical Review Letters

Partial Cloaking of a Gold Particle by a Single Molecule

Physical Review Letters

Nanoscopic Charge Fluctuations in a Gallium Phosphide Waveguide

Nano Letters

Ultrahigh-speed imaging of rotational diffusion on a lipid bilayer

Optics Express

Point spread function in interferometric scattering microscopy (iSCAT)

MPI for the Science of Light

Open-Source Data Analysis Platform for iSCAT Measurements

Springer

Chapter 2 tells the story of Interferometric Scattering (iSCAT) Microscopy

MPI for the Science of Light

Film about "20 Years Nano-Optics" and Interviews with 16 Pioneers

Nano Letters

Nano-Optics in 2020 ± 20

New Journal of Physics

Coherent coupling of single molecules to on-chip ring resonators

Nano Letters

iSCAT: Seeing Single Nanoparticles and Molecules via Rayleigh Scattering

Nature Communications

Nanoprinting organic molecules at the quantum level

Nature Photonics

iSCAT reveals microsecond nanoscopic protein motion on a live cell membrane

Nano Letters

Visualizing Single-Cell Secretion Dynamics with Single-Protein Sensitivity

ACS Photonics

Manipulation of quenching in nanoantenna-emitter systems enabled by a cavity

Nature Physics

Turning a molecule into a coherent two-level quantum system

Physical Review X

Coherent Coupling of a Single Molecule to a Scanning Microcavity

Scientific Reports

Strong plasmonic enhancement of biexciton emission in a quantum dot

Nature Methods

Cryogenic optical localization provides 3D protein structure data with Angstrom resolution

Nature Photonics

A single molecule as a high-fidelity photon gun for producing intensity-squeezed light

Physical Review Letters

Coherent Interaction of Light and Single Molecules in a Dielectric Nanoguide

Physical Review Applied

Sensing Nanoparticles with a Cantilever-Based Scannable Cavity

Nature Photonics

Few-photon coherent nonlinear optics with a single molecule

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Tracking Single Particles on Supported Lipid Membranes

Nature Communications

Direct optical sensing of single unlabelled proteins and super-resolution imaging of their binding sites

Nature Communications

Spectroscopic detection and state preparation of a single ion in a crystal

Nature Communications

Scanning-aperture trapping and manipulation of single charged nanoparticles

ChemPhysChem

Cryogenic Colocalization Microscopy for Nanometer-Distance Measurements

Optics Express

Spontaneous emission enhancement of a single molecule by a double-sphere nanoantenna across an interface

Nature Photonics

A planar dielectric antenna for directional single-photon emission and near-unity collection efficiency

Physical Review Letters

Single-Photon Spectroscopy of a Single Molecule

Nature Photonics

Single-molecule imaging by optical absorption

Nature

A single-molecule optical transistor

Nature Methods

High-speed nanoscopic tracking of the position and orientation of a single virus

Nano Letters

Imaging a Single Quantum Dot in Absorption

Nature

Geometry-induced electrostatic trapping of nanometric objects in a fluid

Physical Review Letters

Perfect Reflection of Light by a Single Atom

Optical Express

Realization of two Fourier-limited solid-state single-photon sources

Physical Review Letters

Strong Extinction of a Laser Beam by a Single Molecule

Physical Review Letters

Controlled coupling of counterpropagating whispering-gallery modes by a single Rayleigh scatterer

Physical Review Letters

Enhancement of Single-Molecule Fluorescence Using a Gold Nanoantenna

Nano Letters

Photon transfer between two individual nanoemitters via shared high-Q modes of a microsphere

Optics Letters

Design of plasmonic nanoantennae for enhancing spontaneous emission

Physical Review Letters

Optical Microscopy via Spectral Modifications of a Nanoantenna

Applied Physics Letters

A “standing-wave meter” to measure dispersion and loss of photonic-crystal waveguides

Physical Review Letters

Highly Directional Emission from Photonic Crystal Waveguides of Subwavelength Width

Physical Review Letters

Detection and Spectroscopy of Gold Nanoparticles Using Supercontinuum White Light Confocal Microscopy

Chemical Physics Letters

Aligned terrylene molecules in a spin-coated ultrathin crystalline film

Science

Nanometer Resolution and Coherent Optical Dipole Coupling of Two Individual Molecules

Nature

Optical microscopy using a single-molecule light source