Surface‐enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) has attracted increasing attention due to the
potential of infrared spectroscopy in applications such as molecular trace sensing of solids …

The coupling between light and collective oscillations of free carriers at metallic surfaces
and nanostructures is at the origin of one of the main fields of nanophotonics: plasmonics …

Infrared techniques enable nondestructive and label-free studies of thin films with high
chemical and structural contrast. In this work, we review recent progress and perspectives in …

The far-field spectral and near-field spatial responses of an individual metal-insulator-metal
nanoantenna are reported, using thermal fluctuations as an internal source of the …

Thermoplasmonics is a method for increasing temperature remotely using focused visible or
infrared laser beams interacting with plasmonic nanoparticles. Here, local heating induced …

Hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) is a layered van der Waals material able to sustain
hyperbolic phonon-polaritons within its mid-infrared reststrahlen bands. We study the effect …

A novel spectroscopy technique to enable the rapid characterization of discrete mid-infrared
integrated photonic waveguides is demonstrated. The technique utilizes lithography …

Up-conversion luminescence (UCL) from rare-earth doped oxide (RE) films has great
potential for application in fields such as solar cells, bioanalysis, or display technologies …

Antimony (Sb) heavily-doped germanium (Ge)-on-silicon (Si) epitaxial films are investigated
as mid-infrared (MIR) plasmonic materials. Structural, electrical, and optical properties have …

We investigate local heat generation by molecules at the apex of polymer-embedded
vertical antennas excited at resonant mid-infrared wavelengths, exploiting the surface …