Concentration-dependent photothermal conversion efficiency of gold nanoparticles under near-infrared laser and broadband irradiation

• Vikas,
• Raj Kumar and
• Sanjeev Soni

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 205–217, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.20

• Vikas Raj Kumar Sanjeev Soni Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad-201002, India Biomedical Applications Group, CSIR ­ Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, Sector-30C, Chandigarh-160030, India Micro and Nano Optics Centre, CSIR ­ Central Scientific Instruments

Double-layer symmetric gratings with bound states in the continuum for dual-band high-Q optical sensing

• Chaoying Shi,
• Jinhua Hu,
• Xiuhong Liu,
• Junfang Liang,
• Jijun Zhao,
• Haiyan Han and
• Qiaofen Zhu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2022, 13, 1408–1417, doi:10.3762/bjnano.13.116

• sensing and nonlinear optics, which are important for practical nano-optics utilization. Schematic of the double-layer symmetric gratings structure. Reflection spectra mapping of the DLSG-based structure with respect to wavelength and α. a) Reflection spectra of the structure with different α values. The

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

• frequencies to a traveling electromagnetic wave that can be observed in the far field. Optical antennas are key elements in nano-optics, bridging the gap between the dimension of an optical wavelength (several hundreds of nanometers) and the size of elementary quantum emitters such as single atoms, molecules

Growth dynamics and light scattering of gold nanoparticles in situ synthesized at high concentration in thin polymer films

• Corentin Guyot,
• Philippe Vandestrick,
• Ingrid Marenne,
• Olivier Deparis and
• Michel Voué

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1768–1777, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.172

• simpler. In a single step, both the gold salt and the polymer are mixed to prepare the nanocomposite. The simplicity of the method is regarded as a great advantage for the production of nanocomposites for various applications in nano-optics. The principle of in situ methods is the use of one of the matrix

Electromagnetic analysis of the lasing thresholds of hybrid plasmon modes of a silver tube nanolaser with active core and active shell

• Denys M. Natarov,
• Trevor M. Benson and
• Alexander I. Nosich

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 294–304, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.28

• Denys M. Natarov Trevor M. Benson Alexander I. Nosich Laboratory of Micro and Nano Optics, Institute of Radio-Physics and Electronics NASU, vul. Proskury 12, Kharkiv 61085, Ukraine George Green Institute for Electromagnetics Research, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7

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

• nanosource would be useful in nano-optics applications. As an example, Zhou et al. were able to fabricate a two-color hybrid nanosource by trapping different emitters in the close vicinity of a cylindrical nanoparticle [17]. The color emitted by this nanosource then depends on the incident in-plane

High-throughput micro-nanostructuring by microdroplet inkjet printing

• Hendrikje R. Neumann and
• Christine Selhuber-Unkel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2372–2380, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.222

• densities is highly important in many fields, ranging from nano-optics to biosensor technologies and biomaterials. A well-established method to fabricate quasi-hexagonal patterns of metal nanoparticles is block copolymer micelle nanolithography, which relies on the self-assembly of metal-loaded micelles on

Light–Matter interactions on the nanoscale

• Mohsen Rahmani and
• Chennupati Jagadish

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2125–2127, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.201

• Mohsen Rahmani Chennupati Jagadish Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia 10.3762/bjnano.9.201 Keywords: light-matter interactions; nano-optics; nanophotonics; plasmonics; At the beginning of the 20th century, researchers

• or nano-optics, is a subject of rapidly increasing scientific importance: controlling light–matter interactions beyond the diffraction limit. In contrast to optics, which is the concept of light rays, including absorption, transmission and reflection, photonics is the concept of light science

Excitation of nonradiating magnetic anapole states with azimuthally polarized vector beams

• Aristeidis G. Lamprianidis and
• Andrey E. Miroshnichenko

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1478–1490, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.139

• illuminated by such beams. We propose several configuration schemes where magnetic anapole modes of simple or hybrid nature can be detected in silicon nanospheres, nanodisks and nanopillars. Keywords: anapole excitation; dielectric nano-optics; multipolar expansion; T-matrix method; vector beams

Comparative study of post-growth annealing of Cu(hfac)₂, Co₂(CO)₈ and Me₂Au(acac) metal precursors deposited by FEBID

• Marcos V. Puydinger dos Santos,
• Aleksandra Szkudlarek,
• Artur Rydosz,
• Carlos Guerra-Nuñez,
• Fanny Béron,
• Kleber R. Pirota,
• Stanislav Moshkalev,
• José Alexandre Diniz and
• Ivo Utke

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 91–101, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.11

• storage, ferroelectric tunnel junction memristors, metal interconnects for high performance integrated circuits in microelectronics and nano-optics applications, especially in the areas of plasmonics and metamaterials. Focused-electron-beam-induced deposition (FEBID) is a maskless direct-write tool

Electron beam induced deposition of silacyclohexane and dichlorosilacyclohexane: the role of dissociative ionization and dissociative electron attachment in the deposition process

• Ragesh Kumar T P,
• Sangeetha Hari,
• Krishna K Damodaran,
• Oddur Ingólfsson and
• Cornelis W. Hagen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 2376–2388, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.237

• ]. Specifically, FEBID deposition of SiO2 is of interest for the repair of deep ultraviolet (DUV) masks [36], but also for the deposition of transparent nano-optics [37][38][39]. Results and Discussion Deposition from SCH and DCSCH To our knowledge, the precursor molecules SCH and DCSCH have not been used for

Linear and nonlinear optical properties of hybrid metallic–dielectric plasmonic nanoantennas

• Mario Hentschel,
• Bernd Metzger,
• Bastian Knabe,
• Karsten Buse and
• Harald Giessen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 111–120, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.13

• nanoscale antenna systems. Our results significantly deepen the understanding of these interesting hybrid systems and offer important guidelines for the design of nanoscale, nonlinear light sources. Keywords: nano-optics; nonlinear optics; plasmonics; second harmonic generation; spectroscopy; Introduction

A versatile strategy towards non-covalent functionalization of graphene by surface-confined supramolecular self-assembly of Janus tectons

• Ping Du,
• David Bléger,
• Fabrice Charra,
• Vincent Bouchiat,
• David Kreher,
• Fabrice Mathevet and
• André-Jean Attias

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 632–639, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.64

• accessing the third dimension is also a mandatory step for nano-optics/electronics. Indeed the close proximity between the active conjugated system and a conducting substrate results in the rapid quenching of any electronic excitations. Thus, it is of prime importance to provide a strategy to decouple

Fundamental edge broadening effects during focused electron beam induced nanosynthesis

• Roland Schmied,
• Jason D. Fowlkes,
• Robert Winkler,
• Phillip D. Rack and
• Harald Plank

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 462–471, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.47

• the need of a scanning e-beam that is, hence, highly suited for the purification of large areas [33]. Despite these purity issues, a variety of applications have been demonstrated for different precursors such as nano-optics [34][35], magnetic storage, sensing and logic applications [36][37][38][39

• ][40], and nanoscale stress/strain or gas sensors [28][41][42]. While highly accurate and reproducible surface morphologies are essential for some of these applications, e.g., nano-optics, all of these applications require predictable and reproducible shape control in the context of high integration

Nanophotonics, nano-optics and nanospectroscopy

• Alfred J. Meixner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 499–500, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.53

• Alfred J. Meixner Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 18, 72076 Tübingen, Germany 10.3762/bjnano.2.53 Keywords: nano-optics; nanophotonics; nanospectroscopy; This Thematic Series of the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology is devoted to

• nanophotonics, nano-optics and nanospectroscopy, and covers the field where nanoscience meets photonics, optics and spectroscopy. Since the pioneering days of scanning near-field optical microscopy [1][2], one of the main goals has been to combine scanning probe microscopy techniques with the spectroscopic