Nano-Optics News

Nanostructured Alkali-Metal Vapor Cells

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…

Read more

Partial Cloaking of Gold Particle by a Single Molecule

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

Read more

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

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

Read more

Quantum Metamaterials with Magnetic Response at Optical Frequencies

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

Read more

Ultrahigh-Speed Imaging of Rotational Diffusion on a Lipid Bilayer

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

Read more

Hsuan-Wei Liu earned his doctoral degree

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

Read more

MPL Research Centers and Schools