Nano-Optics News

Nanostructured Alkali-Metal Vapor Cells

21.09.2020

In fruitful collaboration with the group of Charles Adams in Durham, we have developed a nanoscopic vapor cell. Our first paper has just appeared at P...

Partial Cloaking of Gold Particle by a Single Molecule

03.09.2020

After several years of hard work, our results on the coherent interaction of a molecule with a plasmonic particle are now published in Phys. Rev. Lett...

Point spread function in interferometric scattering microscopy (iSCAT). Part I: aberrations in defocusing and axial localization

31.08.2020

We are happy to provide the first formulation of the point spread function in iSCAT microscopy, published in Opt. Express. The paper emphasizes the...

Quantum Metamaterials with Magnetic Response at Optical Frequencies

07.08.2020

Our new theoretical paper in Phys. Rev. Lett. shows how one can obtain a large magnetic response at optical frequencies from atoms, by simply...

Ultrahigh-Speed Imaging of Rotational Diffusion on a Lipid Bilayer

26.07.2020

Translational diffusion is commonplace in biophysical studies. Our new work in Nano Letters shows how a gold nanorod could be used to access the...

Hsuan-Wei Liu earned his doctoral degree

21.07.2020

Congratulations! In July 2020 Hsuan-Wei Liu successfully defended his doctoral thesis on “Strong Near-Field Coupling of Single Emitters to Plasmonic...