Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance in doped semiconductor nanocrystals

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Protocols for optimal film/photonic crystal fabrication including their optical and electrical modeling

Thin film fabrication and characterization corroborated by theoretical tools. Photonic crystals fabrication and characterization corroborated by theoretical tools. Study of charge transport in films and photonic crystals.

Mid-project workshop

A mid-term workshop will be organized online

New physical models and theoretical tools to describe excited state interactions

Identification of the hybrid and interactions hybrid nanostructures via optical and theoretical evaluation

Devices for optical light manipulation based on dSNC films

Electrochromic smart windows and electro tunable emitters obtained starting from dSNC-based thin films and photonic crystals.

Experimental and theoretical description of the quantum plasmon in dSNCs

Spectroscopic investigation: i) standard steady-state investigation; ii) ultrafast measurements; iii) near-field scanning microscopy and scattering-scanning near-field optical microscopy (S-SNOM) capable of probing single particle LSPR. Theoretical evaluation: i) Multi-scale theoretical models; ii) numerical tools and simulations; iii) density functional theory, tight-binding, empirical FT and local density approximation (LDA) procedures used to calculate the groundstate; iV) time-dependent LDA (TDLDA), based on the random phase approximation (RPA), to compute absorption spectra.

New synthesis protocols for various dSNCs

Control over the dSNC size, shape, crystallinity and the distribution of dopants and defects, as well as surface traps to impact the plasmonic response. Different levels of vacancy doping guaranteed by coating of the dSCN by a shell or the incorporation in appropriate film structures to prevent further oxidation or reduction.

Synthesis protocols for hybrid nanostructures

Synthesis, fabrication and characterization of hybrid nanostructures for the investigation of their hybrid interaction

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (22)

Plasmonic doped semiconductor nanocrystals: Properties, fabrication, applications and perspectives

Author(s): Ilka Kriegel, Francesco Scotognella, Liberato Manna
Published in: Physics Reports, Issue 674, 2017, Page(s) 1-52, ISSN 0370-1573
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2017.01.003

Magneto-optical switching in microcavities based on a TGG defect sandwiched between periodic and disordered one-dimensional photonic structures

Author(s): Ilka Kriegel, Francesco Scotognella
Published in: Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics, Issue 142, 2017, Page(s) 249-255, ISSN 0030-4026
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2017.05.091

Optical properties of periodic, quasi-periodic, and disordered one-dimensional photonic structures

Author(s): Michele Bellingeri, Alessandro Chiasera, Ilka Kriegel, Francesco Scotognella
Published in: Optical Materials, Issue 72, 2017, Page(s) 403-421, ISSN 0925-3467
DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2017.06.033

Unconventional double-bended saturation of carrier occupation in optically excited graphene due to many-particle interactions

Author(s): Torben Winzer, Martin Mittendorff, Stephan Winnerl, Henry Mittenzwey, Roland Jago, Manfred Helm, Ermin Malic, Andreas Knorr
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 8, 2017, Page(s) 15042, ISSN 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15042

Covalent functionalized black phosphorus quantum dots

Author(s): Francesco Scotognella, Ilka Kriegel, Simone Sassolini
Published in: Optical Materials, Issue 75, 2018, Page(s) 521-524, ISSN 0925-3467
DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2017.11.016

Optical fingerprint of non-covalently functionalized transition metal dichalcogenides

Author(s): Maja Feierabend, Ermin Malic, Andreas Knorr, Gunnar Berghäuser
Published in: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Issue 29/38, 2017, Page(s) 384003, ISSN 0953-8984
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/aa7eb3

Plasmonic Glasses and Films Based on Alternative Inexpensive Materials for Blocking Infrared Radiation

Author(s): Lucas V. Besteiro, Xiang-Tian Kong, Zhiming Wang, Federico Rosei, Alexander O. Govorov
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 18/5, 2018, Page(s) 3147-3156, ISSN 1530-6984
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00764

Solution processable and optically switchable 1D photonic structures

Author(s): Giuseppe M. Paternò, Chiara Iseppon, Alessia D’Altri, Carlo Fasanotti, Giulia Merati, Mattia Randi, Andrea Desii, Eva A. A. Pogna, Daniele Viola, Giulio Cerullo, Francesco Scotognella, Ilka Kriegel
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 8/1, 2018, ISSN 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-21824-w

Dark excitons in transition metal dichalcogenides

Author(s): Ermin Malic, Malte Selig, Maja Feierabend, Samuel Brem, Dominik Christiansen, Florian Wendler, Andreas Knorr, Gunnar Berghäuser
Published in: Physical Review Materials, Issue 2/1, 2018, ISSN 2475-9953
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.014002

Phonon Sidebands in Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Author(s): Dominik Christiansen, Malte Selig, Gunnar Berghäuser, Robert Schmidt, Iris Niehues, Robert Schneider, Ashish Arora, Steffen Michaelis de Vasconcellos, Rudolf Bratschitsch, Ermin Malic, Andreas Knorr
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 119/18, 2017, ISSN 0031-9007
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.187402

Light-induced switching in pDTE–FICO 1D photonic structures

Author(s): Ilka Kriegel, Francesco Scotognella
Published in: Optics Communications, Issue 410, 2018, Page(s) 703-706, ISSN 0030-4018
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2017.11.019

Electro-optic and magneto-optic photonic devices based on multilayer photonic structures

Author(s): Giuseppe M. Paternò, Liliana Moscardi, Ilka Kriegel, Francesco Scotognella, Guglielmo Lanzani
Published in: Journal of Photonics for Energy, Issue 8/03, 2018, Page(s) 1, ISSN 1947-7988
DOI: 10.1117/1.jpe.8.032201

Writing on Nanocrystals: Patterning Colloidal Inorganic Nanocrystal Films through Irradiation-Induced Chemical Transformations of Surface Ligands

Author(s): Francisco Palazon, Mirko Prato, Liberato Manna
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 139/38, 2017, Page(s) 13250-13259, ISSN 0002-7863
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b05888

Dark and bright exciton formation, thermalization, and photoluminescence in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

Author(s): Malte Selig, Gunnar Berghäuser, Marten Richter, Rudolf Bratschitsch, Andreas Knorr, Ermin Malic
Published in: 2D Materials, Issue 5/3, 2018, Page(s) 035017, ISSN 2053-1583
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/aabea3

Exciton broadening and band renormalization due to Dexter-like intervalley coupling

Author(s): Ivan Bernal-Villamil, Gunnar Berghäuser, Malte Selig, Iris Niehues, Robert Schmidt, Robert Schneider, Philipp Tonndorf, Paul Erhart, Steffen Michaelis de Vasconcellos, Rudolf Bratschitsch, Andreas Knorr, Ermin Malic
Published in: 2D Materials, Issue 5/2, 2018, Page(s) 025011, ISSN 2053-1583
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/aaaa8b

Mapping of the dark exciton landscape in transition metal dichalcogenides

Author(s): Gunnar Berghäuser, Philipp Steinleitner, Philipp Merkl, Rupert Huber, Andreas Knorr, Ermin Malic
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 98/2, 2018, ISSN 2469-9950
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.020301

Rationalizing the Impact of Surface Depletion on Electrochemical Modulation of Plasmon Resonance Absorption in Metal Oxide Nanocrystals

Author(s): Ankit Agrawal, Ilka Kriegel, Evan L. Runnerstrom, Francesco Scotognella, Anna Llordes, Delia J. Milliron
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 5/5, 2018, Page(s) 2044-2050, ISSN 2330-4022
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b01587

Tantalum Arsenide-Based One-Dimensional Photonic Structures

Author(s): Ilka Kriegel, Michele Guizzardi, Francesco Scotognella
Published in: Ceramics, Issue 1/1, 2018, Page(s) 139-144, ISSN 2571-6131
DOI: 10.3390/ceramics1010012

Optical Response From Functionalized Atomically Thin Nanomaterials

Author(s): Ermin Malic, Gunnar Berghäuser, Maja Feierabend, Andreas Knorr
Published in: Annalen der Physik, Issue 529/10, 2017, Page(s) 1700097, ISSN 0003-3804
DOI: 10.1002/andp.201700097

Quasi-Static Resonances in the Visible Spectrum from All-Dielectric Intermediate Band Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Author(s): Roberto Gaspari, Giuseppe Della Valle, Sandeep Ghosh, Ilka Kriegel, Francesco Scotognella, Andrea Cavalli, Liberato Manna
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 17/12, 2017, Page(s) 7691-7695, ISSN 1530-6984
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03787

Theory of optically induced Förster coupling in van der Waals coupled heterostructures

Author(s): Malte Selig, Ermin Malic, Kwang Jun Ahn, Norbert Koch, Andreas Knorr
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 99/3, 2019, ISSN 2469-9950
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.99.035420

Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy Unravels sub-100 fs Electron and Hole Relaxation Dynamics in Cd-Chalcogenide Nanostructures

Author(s): Tatjana Stoll, Federico Branchi, Julien Réhault, Francesco Scotognella, Francesco Tassone, Ilka Kriegel, Giulio Cerullo
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Issue 8/10, 2017, Page(s) 2285-2290, ISSN 1948-7185
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00682

Conference proceedings (2)

Structural color tuning in 1D photonic crystals with electric field and magnetic field

Author(s): Francesco Scotognella, Simone Callegari, Diana Gisell Figueroa del Valle, Andrea Desii, Ilka Kriegel, Eduardo Aluicio-Sarduy
Published in: Fiber Lasers and Glass Photonics: Materials through Applications, 2018, Page(s) 21
DOI: 10.1117/12.2303695

One-dimensional disordered photonic structures with two or more materials

Author(s): Michele Bellingeri, Francesco Scotognella, Alessandro Chiasera, Luigino Criante, Stefano Varas, Giuseppe Della Valle, Roberta Ramponi, Maurizio Ferrari, Lidia Zur, Anna Lukowiak, Ilka Kriegel, Davide Cassi
Published in: Fiber Lasers and Glass Photonics: Materials through Applications, 2018, Page(s) 93
DOI: 10.1117/12.2306306