TeraHertz detection enabled by mOleculaR optomechanics

Deliverables

Documents, reports (5)

Validation of experimental Raman spectra of the target molecules with strong Raman activity in the 1-30 THz region

Report on fabrication in integrated technology platform of dual THz-visible nanocavities with high g0/2π>10 GHz and C>1

Demonstration of hybrid nanocavities with Q > 1,000, and structured reservoir engineering

Report on the tradeoff between linewidth, confinement /optomechanical coupling strength, and geometry robustness

Molecular THz detector: Proof-of-concept

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Full website launch and final logo

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (38)

Integrated Sideband-Resolved SERS with a Dimer on a Nanobeam Hybrid

Author(s): Ilan Shlesinger, Isabelle M. Palstra, and A. Femius Koenderink
Published in: Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 130, Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) 016901, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.016901

Breaking the Selection Rules of Spin-Forbidden Molecular Absorption in Plasmonic Nanocavities

Author(s): Ojambati, Femi; Deacon, William M; Chikkaraddy, Rohit; Readman, Charlie; Lin, Qianqi; Koczor-Benda, Zsuzsanna; Rosta, Edina; Scherman, Oren; Baumberg, Jeremy
Published in: ACS Photonics, 7, 2020, Page(s) 2337-2342, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.17863/cam.56388

Dispersive optomechanics of supercavity modes in high-index disks

Author(s): Laura Mercadé, Ángela Barreda, Alejandro Martínez
Published in: Optics Letters, 45/18, 2020, Page(s) 5238, ISSN 0146-9592
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/ol.402398

SERS Detection via Individual Bowtie Nanoantennas Integrated in Si 3 N 4 Waveguides

Author(s): Amadeu Griol; Roel Baets; Alejandro Martínez; Javier Losada; Ali Raza; Aina Serrano; Stéphane Clemmen
Published in: IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum electronics, Vol. 25. Nº 3, 2019, ISSN 1077-260X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/jstqe.2019.2896200

Molecular Screening for Terahertz Detection with Machine-Learning-Based Methods

Author(s): Zsuzsanna Koczor-Benda; Alexandra L. Boehmke; Angelos Xomalis; Rakesh Arul; Charlie Readman; Jeremy J. Baumberg; Edina Rosta
Published in: Physical Review X, Vol. 11, Issue 4, 2021, Page(s) 041035, ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.11.041035

Interfering Plasmons in Coupled Nanoresonators to Boost Light Localization and SERS

Author(s): Angelos Xomalis, Xuezhi Zheng, Angela Demetriadou, Alejandro Martínez, Rohit Chikkaraddy, Jeremy J. Baumberg
Published in: Nano Letters, 21/6, 2021, Page(s) 2512-2518, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04987

Optical probes of molecules as nano-mechanical switches.

Author(s): Dean Kos; Giuliana Di Martino; Alexandra Boehmke; Bart de Nijs; Dénes Berta; Tamás Földes; Sara Sangtarash; Edina Rosta; Hatef Sadeghi; Jeremy J. Baumberg
Published in: Nature Communications, 11, 2020, Page(s) 5905 (2020), ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.17863/cam.59173

Quantum description of surface-enhanced resonant Raman scattering within a hybrid-optomechanical model

Author(s): Tomáš Neuman, Ruben Esteban, Geza Giedke, Mikołaj K. Schmidt, Javier Aizpurua
Published in: Physical Review A, 100/4, 2019, Page(s) 043422, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: American Pysical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.100.043422

Optomechanical Collective Effects in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering from Many Molecules

Author(s): Zhang, Yuan; Aizpurua, Javier; Esteban, Ruben
Published in: ACS Photonics, 7-7, 2020, Page(s) 1676–1688, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00032

Single photon multiclock lock-in detection by picosecond time stamping

Author(s): Jeremy J. Baumberg; Lukas A. Jakob; William M. Deacon; Oliver Hicks; Ilya Manyakin; Oluwafemi Stephen Ojambati; Michael Traxler
Published in: Optica, Vol. 8, issue 12, 2021, Page(s) 1646-1653, ISSN 2334-2536
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/optica.441487

Addressing molecular optomechanical effects in nanocavity-enhanced Raman scattering beyond the single plasmonic mode

Author(s): Yuan Zhang, Ruben Esteban, Roberto A. Boto, Mattin Urbieta, Xabier Arrieta, ChongXin Shan, Shuzhou Li, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Javier Aizpurua
Published in: Nanoscale, 13/3, 2021, Page(s) 1938-1954, ISSN 2040-3364
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0nr06649d

Integrated Molecular Optomechanics with Hybrid Dielectric–Metallic Resonators

Author(s): Ilan Shlesinger; Kévin G. Cognée; Ewold Verhagen; A. Femius Koenderink
Published in: ACS Photonics, 8, 12, 2021, Page(s) 3506–3516, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00808

Collective Mid-Infrared Vibrations in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering.

Author(s): Niclas S. Mueller; Rakesh Arul; Lukas A. Jakob; Matthew Oliver Blunt; Tamás Földes; Edina Rosta; Jeremy J. Baumberg
Published in: Nano Letters, 15306992, 2022, Page(s) 7254–7260, ISSN 1530-6992
Publisher: ACS Publications
DOI: 10.17863/cam.88941

Continuous-wave frequency upconversion with a molecular optomechanical nanocavity.

Author(s): Wen Chen; Philippe Roelli; Huatian Hu; Sachin Verlekar; Sakthi Priya Amirtharaj; Ángela I. Barreda; Tobias J. Kippenberg; Miroslavna Kovylina; Ewold Verhagen; Alejandro Martínez; Christophe Galland
Published in: Science, VOL. 374, NO. 6572, 2021, Page(s) 1264-1267, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abk3106

Boosting Optical Nanocavity Coupling by Retardation Matching to Dark Modes

Author(s): Rohit Chikkaraddy, Junyang Huang, Dean Kos, Eoin Elliott, Marlous Kamp, Chenyang Guo, Jeremy J. Baumberg, and Bart de Nijs
Published in: ACS Photonics 2023, 10 (2), 2023, Page(s) 493-499, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01603

Intrinsic luminescence blinking from plasmonic nanojunctions

Author(s): Wen Chen, Philippe Roelli, Aqeel Ahmed, Sachin Verlekar, Huatian Hu, Karla Banjac, Magalí Lingenfelder, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Giulia Tagliabue, Christophe Galland
Published in: Nature Communications, 12/1, 2021, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22679-y

Enhanced excitation and readout of plasmonic cavity modes in NPoM via SiN waveguides for on-chip SERS

Author(s): J. Enrique Vázquez-Lozano; Jeremy J. Baumberg; Alejandro Martínez
Published in: Optics Express, Vol. 30, Issue 3, 2022, Page(s) 4553-4563, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.446895

Tracking interfacial single-molecule pH and binding dynamics via vibrational spectroscopy.

Author(s): Junyang Huang; David-Benjamin Grys; Jack Griffiths; Bart de Nijs; Marlous Kamp; Qianqi Lin; Jeremy J. Baumberg
Published in: Science Advances, Vol. 7, Issue 23, 2021, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg1790

Accessing Plasmonic Hotspots Using Nanoparticle-on-Foil Constructs

Author(s): Rohit Chikkaraddy, Jeremy J Baumberg
Published in: ACS Photonics, 2021, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01048

Giant mid-IR resonant coupling to molecular vibrations in sub-nm gaps of plasmonic multilayer metafilms

Author(s): Arul, R., Grys, DB., Chikkaraddy, R. et al.
Published in: Light Sci Appl, 11, 2022, Page(s) 281, ISSN 2047-7538
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-022-00943-0

Molecular Optomechanics Approach to Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

Author(s): Rubén Esteban, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Javier Aizpurúa
Published in: Acc. Chem. Res, 55, 2022, Page(s) 1889-1899, ISSN 0001-4842
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00759

Accurate Transfer of Individual Nanoparticles onto Single Photonic Nanostructures

Author(s): Javier Redolat, María Camarena-Pérez, Amadeu Griol, Miroslavna Kovylina, Angelos Xomalis, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Alejandro Martínez, and Elena Pinilla-Cienfuegos
Published in: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 15 (2), 2023, Page(s) 3558-3565, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c13633

Mid-infrared-perturbed molecular vibrational signatures in plasmonic nanocavities.

Author(s): Chikkaraddy, Rohit; Xomalis, Angelos; Jakob, Lukas A.; Baumberg, Jeremy J.
Published in: Light: Science & Applications volume, 11, Article number: 19, 2022, ISSN 2047-7538
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-022-00709-8

Detecting mid-infrared light by molecular frequency upconversion in dual-wavelength nanoantennas

Author(s): Angelos Xomalis; Xuezhi Zheng; Xuezhi Zheng; Rohit Chikkaraddy; Zsuzsanna Koczor-Benda; Ermanno Miele; Edina Rosta; Guy A. E. Vandenbosch; Alejandro Martínez; Jeremy J. Baumberg
Published in: Science, Vol 374, Issue 6572, 2021, Page(s) 1268-1271, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abk2593

Energy-resolved plasmonic chemistry in individual nanoreactors

Author(s): Eitan Oksenberg , Ilan Shlesinger, Angelos Xomalis, Andrea Baldi, Jeremy J. Baumberg, A. Femius Koenderink  and Erik C. Garnett
Published in: Nature Nanotechnology, 16, 2021, Page(s) 1378–1385, ISSN 1748-3395
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41565-021-00973-6

Breaking the selection rules of spin-forbidden molecular absorption in plasmonic nanocavities

Author(s): O.S. Ojambati, W.M. Deacon, R. Chikkaraddy, C. Readman, Q. Lin, Z. Koczor-Benda, E. Rosta, O.A. Scherman, J.J. Baumberg
Published in: submitted, 2020, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: xx

Quantum theory of surface-enhanced resonant Raman scattering (SERRS) of molecules in strongly coupled plasmon–exciton systems

Author(s): Tomáš Neuman, Javier Aizpurua, Ruben Esteban
Published in: Nanophotonics, 9/2, 2020, Page(s) 295-308, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2019-0336

Spectroscopic Evidence for Peptide-Bond-Selective Ultraviolet Photodissociation

Author(s): Aleksandr Y. Pereverzev, Zsuzsanna Koczor-Benda, Erik Saparbaev, Vladimir N. Kopysov, Edina Rosta, Oleg V. Boyarkin
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11/1, 2019, Page(s) 206-209, ISSN 1948-7185
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b03221

Frequency-resolved photon correlations in cavity optomechanics

Author(s): M K Schmidt, R Esteban, G Giedke, J Aizpurua, A González-Tudela
Published in: Quantum Science and Technology, 6/3, 2021, Page(s) 034005, ISSN 2058-9565
Publisher: IOPScience
DOI: 10.1088/2058-9565/abe569

Molecular Platform for Frequency Upconversion at the Single-Photon Level

Author(s): Philippe Roelli, Diego Martin-Cano, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Christophe Galland
Published in: Physical Review X, 10/3, 2020, ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.10.031057

Vibrational Stark Effects: Ionic Influence on Local Fields

Author(s): Wright, Demelza; Sangtarash, Sara; Mueller, Niclas S; Lin, Qianqi; Sadeghi, Hatef; Baumberg, Jeremy
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 13, 2022, Page(s) 4905-4911, ISSN 1948-7185
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01048

Molecular Vibration Explorer: an Online Database and Toolbox for Surface-Enhanced Frequency Conversion and Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy

Author(s): Zsuzsanna Koczor-Benda, Philippe Roelli, Christophe Galland, and Edina Rosta
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 126 (28), 2022, Page(s) 4657–4663, ISSN 1932-7455
Publisher: ACS Publications
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c03700

Toward Chiral Sensing and Spectroscopy Enabled by All‐Dielectric Integrated Photonic Waveguides

Author(s): J. Enrique Vázquez‐Lozano, Alejandro Martínez
Published in: Laser & Photonics Reviews, 14/9, 2020, Page(s) 1900422, ISSN 1863-8880
Publisher: Wiley - VCH Verlag GmbH & CO. KGaA
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.201900422

Collective Mid-Infrared Vibrations in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

Author(s): Niclas S. Mueller, Rakesh Arul, Lukas A. Jakob, Matthew Oliver Blunt, Tamás Földes, Edina Rosta, and Jeremy J. Baumberg
Published in: Nano Letters, 22 (17), 2022, Page(s) 7254-7260, ISSN 1530-6992
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c02806

Multi-wavelength lock-in spectroscopy for extracting perturbed spectral responses: molecular signatures in nanocavities

Author(s): Angelos Xomalis and Jeremy J. Baumberg
Published in: Optics Express, Vol. 31, Issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 5069-5074, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.481639

Controlling Optically Driven Atomic Migration Using Crystal-Facet Control in Plasmonic Nanocavities

Author(s): Angelos Xomalis, Rohit Chikkaraddy, Eitan Oksenberg, Ilan Shlesinger, Junyang Huang, Erik C. Garnett, A. Femius Koenderink, Jeremy J. Baumberg
Published in: ACS Nano, 14/8, 2020, Page(s) 10562-10568, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c04600

Hybrid photonic-plasmonic cavities based on the nanoparticle-on-a-mirror configuration

Author(s): Ángela I. Barreda; Mario Zapata-Herrera; Isabelle M. Palstra; Laura Mercadé; Javier Aizpurua; A. Femius Koenderink; Alejandro Martínez
Published in: Photonics Research, Vol.9, Issue 12, 2021, Page(s) 2398-2419, ISSN 2327-9125
Publisher: Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/prj.433761

Hybrid Photonic-Plasmonic Cavity Design for Very Large Purcell Factors at Telecommunication Wavelengths

Author(s): Angela Barreda; Laura Mercadé; Mario Zapata-Herrera; Javier Aizpurua; Alejandro Martínez
Published in: PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED, 18, 2022, Page(s) 044066, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.18.044066

Thesis dissertations (1)

Spin-dependent optical phenomena: Fundamentals and applications

Author(s): Vázquez Lozano; Juan Enrique
Published in: 1, 2021
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica de València
DOI: 10.4995/thesis/10251/166775

Conference proceedings (1)

Molecular platform for frequency upconversion at the single-photon level

Author(s): Philippe Roelli; Diego Martin-Cano; Christophe Galland; Tobias J. Kippenberg
Published in: Proceedings Volume 11806, Quantum Nanophotonic Materials, Devices, and Systems 2021; 118060I (2021), 2021
Publisher: SPIE Digital library
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1910.11395

Other (3)

Blinking of Intrinsic Light Emission from Plasmonic Nanojunctions

Author(s): Wen Chen (EPFL)
Published in: (SCOM), Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg (Sweden), 2020
Publisher: -

Optically probing electronics, plasmonics and mechanics inside sub-nm junctions;

Author(s): Philippe Roelli (EPFL)
Published in: Hybrid Optomechanical Technologies conference, Saanen, Switzerland, 2020
Publisher: -

Developing tunable plasmonic nanocavities for control of optical processes in 2D semiconductors

Author(s): Wen Chen (EPFL)
Published in: WE-Heraeus-Seminar on “2D Materials for Photonic Quantum Technologies” Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (Germany), 2020
Publisher: -

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Optomechanical Collective Effects in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering from Many Molecules

Author(s): Y. Zhang, J. Aizpurua, and R. Esteban
Published in: arXiv, 200.101.750, 2020
Publisher: -