Advances in ultrafast plasmonics

AN Koya, M Romanelli, J Kuttruff… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In the past 20 years, we have reached a broad understanding of many light-driven
phenomena in nanoscale systems. The temporal dynamics of the excited states are instead …

New horizons in near-zero refractive index photonics and hyperbolic metamaterials

M Lobet, N Kinsey, I Liberal, H Caglayan… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The engineering of the spatial and temporal properties of both the electric permittivity and
the refractive index of materials is at the core of photonics. When vanishing to zero, those …

Quantitative ultrafast magnetoacoustics at magnetic metasurfaces

A Alekhin, AM Lomonosov, N Leo, M Ludwig… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Femtosecond (fs) time-resolved magneto-optics is applied to investigate laser-excited
ultrafast dynamics of one-dimensional nickel gratings on fused silica and silicon substrates …

Strong transverse magneto-optical Kerr effect at normal incidence based on hybrid bound states in the continuum

A Chang, YL Zhu, S Li, L Chen, J Chen, Y Zhou… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Efficient transverse magneto-optical Kerr effect (TMOKE) at the nanoscale has attracted
great interest in recent years due to the highly desirable properties it offers in nonreciprocal …

Observation of Quantum metric and non-Hermitian Berry curvature in a plasmonic lattice

J Cuerda, JM Taskinen, N Källman, L Grabitz… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
We experimentally observe the quantum geometric tensor, namely, the quantum metric and
the Berry curvature, for a square lattice of radiatively coupled plasmonic nanoparticles. We …

Optically controlled ultrafast dynamics of skyrmion in antiferromagnets

SH Guan, Y Liu, ZP Hou, DY Chen, Z Fan, M Zeng… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The optical vortex, an optical beam carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), has been
demonstrated to be promising in manipulating magnetic structure and its dynamics in …

Origin of Dopant-Carrier Exchange Coupling and Excitonic Zeeman Splitting in Mn2+-Doped Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals

IH Yeh, M Ghobadifard, L Feng, V Galievsky… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Low-dimensional metal halide perovskites have unique optical and electrical properties that
render them attractive for the design of diluted magnetic semiconductors. However, the …

Magnetochiroptical nanocavities in hyperbolic metamaterials enable sensing down to the few-molecule level

WOF Carvalho, ON Oliveira… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we combine the concepts of magnetic circular dichroism, nanocavities, and
magneto-optical hyperbolic metamaterials (MO-HMMs) to demonstrate an approach for …

Hybrid plasmonic modes for enhanced refractive index sensing

BD Dana, J Boyu, J Lin, L Li… - Advanced Sensor …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Compared to single nanoparticles, strongly coupled plasmonic nanoparticles provide
attractive advantages owing to their ability to exhibit multiple resonances with unique …

Broadband Enhancement of Magneto-Optical Effects in Hybrid Waveguide-Plasmonic Surfaces for Sensing

WOF Carvalho, DH Spadoti, ON Oliveira Jr… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conventional magnetophotonic nanostructures typically function within narrow wavelength
and incident angle ranges, where resonance is observed and magneto-optical (MO) effects …