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Disentangling Plasmonic Enhancement of Electronic and Thermal Effects in
Catalysis using In Operando X-Ray Diffraction
ACS Catalysis 15: 2359−2366, 2025.
Nature Catalysis 3: 564–573, 2022.
The photothermal nonlinearity in plasmon-assisted photocatalysis
Nanoscale 14: 5022,
2022.
The role of heat generation and fluid flow in plasmon-enhanced
reduction-oxidation reactions
ACS Photonics 8:
1183-1190, 2021.
Recent developments in plasmon-assisted photocatalysis – A personal
Perspective
Appl. Phys. Letters
117: 130501, 2020.
Parametric study of temperature distribution in plasmon-assisted
photocatalysis
Nanoscale 12: 17821-17832, 2020.
Thermal effects - an alternative mechanism for plasmonic-assisted
photo-catalysis
Chemical Science 11: 5017-5027, 2020.
OSA Continuum 3: 483-497,
2020.
Comment on “Quantifying hot carrier and thermal contributions in
plasmonic photocatalysis”
Science 364: (6439)
eaaw9367, 2019.
Distinguishing thermal from non-thermal ("hot") carries in
illuminated molecular junctions
Nano Letters 22:
2127-2133 , 2022.
For a lecture on this work, see Movies\PHOTOPTICS_AT_2022_38.mp4 (starting from the middle, unfortunately).
Assistance of metal nanoparticles in photocatalysis – nothing more than
a classical heat source
Faraday Discussions
214: 215, 2019.
“Hot” electrons in metallic nanostructures – thermal vs. non-thermal
effects;
Light: Science &
Applications 8: 89, 2019.
·
J.
Aizpurua et al., Dynamics of hot electron generation in metallic nanostructures: general
discussion
Faraday Discussions
214: 123, 2019.
·
J. Aizpurua
et al., Theory of hot electrons: general discussion,
Faraday Discussions
214: 245, 2019.
Phys. Rev. Applied 19:
014005, 2023.
Photoluminescence from
metal nanostructures – dependence on size
Submitted.
ACS Nano 17:
11439-11453, 2023.
“Theory of “Hot” photoluminescence from Drude metals
ACS Nano 15: 8724-8732, 2021.
See correction (the published errata was unfortunately wrong too).
Effective electron temperature measurement using time-resolved
anti-Stokes
J. Phys. Chem. A 124: 6968–6976, 2020.
Thermal emission of spinning photons from temperature gradients
Phys. Rev. Applied, 18:
014052, 2022.
See https://picoelectrodynamics.org/news/our-paper-got-published-physical-review-applied
An improved argument principle root-search method for modes of slab
waveguides,
optical fibers, and spheres
submitted
to Computer Physics Communications.
Codes
are available here for circular fibers, as well as slabs.
Wide frequency band
expansion of permittivity normal modes.
Journal
of the Optical Society of America, 39: 2387, 2022.
Generalised normal mode
expansion method for open and lossy periodic structures.
Journal
of the Optical Society of America B 39: 1338, 2022.
Resolving the Gibbs phenomenon via a discontinuous basis in a mode
solver for open optical systems.
Journal
of Computational Physics
429: 110004, 2021.
An efficient solver for
the generalized normal modes of non-uniform open optical resonators
Journal
of Computational Physics 422: 109754, 2020.
Scattering by lossy
anisotropic scatterers: A modal approach
Journal
of Applied Physics 129: 113104, 2021.
See
an introduction of the paper in https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/10.0003927
Overcoming the
bottleneck for quantum computations of complex nanophotonic
structures: Purcell and
FRET calculations using a rigorous mode hybridization method
Phys.
Rev. B 101: 155401, 2020.
Generalized normal mode expansion of electromagnetic Green’s tensor for
open systems
Phys.
Rev. Applied 11:
044018, 2019.
Robust location of optical fiber modes via the argument principle method
Computer
Physics Communications 214: 105-116, 2017.
Codes
are available here for circular fibers. See
updated codes above.
Frequency-domain
modelling of TM wave propagation in optical nanostructures with a third-order
nonlinear response
Optics
Letters 34: 3364-6, 2009.
·
A.
Block, R. Yu, I. W. Un, S, Varghese, M. Liebel, N. F. van Hulst, S. Fan, K.-J.
Tielrooij, Y. Sivan
Observation of negative
effective thermal diffusion in gold films
ACS
Photonics 10: 1150-1158, 2023.
·
Y.
Sivan, M. Spector
Ultrafast dynamics of
optically-induced heat gratings in metals - more complicated than expected
ACS
Photonics 7: 1271−1279, 2020.
·
A.
Block, M. Liebel, R. Yu, M. Spector, Y. Sivan, F. J. García de Abajo, N. F. van
Hulst
Tracking ultrafast
hot-electron diffusion in space and time by ultrafast thermomodulation
microscopy; Supplementary Materials
Science
Advances 5:
eaav8965, 2019.
See
also a popular introduction to this paper in https://sciencetrends.com/hot-electrons-diffuse-100-times-faster-than-usual/
New
Journal of Physics 24: 053008, 2022.
Optimization of
second-harmonic generation from touching plasmonic wires
Phys.
Rev. B 103:
075411, 2021.
Sum frequency
generation from touching wires: A transformation optics approach
Optics
Letters 46: 2079, 2021.
Second-harmonic
generation due to coulomb-like interaction in a heterodimer of subwavelength
dimensions
Optics Express 28:
31468, 2020.
Surface second-harmonic
from metallic nanoparticle configurations - a transformation optics approach
Physical
Review B 99:
235429, 2019.
Revisiting the boundary
conditions for second-harmonic generation at metal-dielectric interfaces
Journal
of the Optical Society of America B 34: 1824, 2017.
Phys.
Rev. Materials 4: 105201, 2020.
Size-dependence
of the photothermal response of a single metal nanosphere
Journal
of Applied Physics 126: 173103, 2019.
See
also Scilight article featuring our work in https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/10.0000221
Physical
Review E 96: 059901, 2017.
Nonlinear
plasmonics at high temperatures
Nanophotonics
6: 317-328, 2017.
Temperature-
and –roughness dependent permittivity of annealed/unannealed gold films
Optics
Express 24: 19254, 2016.
Stopping
light using a transient Bragg grating
Phys. Rev. A 101: 033828, 2020.
Pulse
propagation in the slow and stopped light regimes
Optics Express 26: 19294, 2018.
Ns-duration
transient Bragg gratings in silica fibers
Optics Letters 42: 4748, 2017.
Nonlinear wave interactions
between short pulses of different spatio-temporal extents
Scientific Reports 6: 29010, 2016.
Coupled-mode theory for electromagnetic pulse
propagation in dispersive media undergoing a spatiotemporal perturbation: Exact
derivation, numerical validation and peculiar wave mixing
Physical Review B: 93: 144303, 2016.
Femtosecond-scale modulations
and switching based on periodic patterns of excited free-carriers
Optics Express 23: 16416-28, 2015.
Theory of wave-front reversal
of short pulses in dynamically-tuned zero-gap periodic systems
Physical Review A 84: 033822-1-13, 2011.
Broadband
time-reversal of optical pulses using a switchable photonic crystal mirror
Optics Express 19: 14502-7, 2011.
Time-reversal in
dynamically-tuned zero-gap periodic systems
Physical Review Letters 106: 193909, 2011.
See
also cover story at http://phys.org/news/2011-05-physicists-time-reversed-pulses.html
Nano-particle
assisted STED nanoscopy with gold nanospheres
ACS
Photonics 5, 2574-2583, 2017.
Plasmonic
Nanoprobes for Stimulated Emission Depletion Nanoscopy
ACS
Nano 10, 10454-10461, 2016.
Experimental
proof of concept of nano-particle assisted STED
Nano
Letters 14: 4449-4453, 2014.
For
a video presentation of these results by my colleague - http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1939388
Performance
improvement in Nano-particle assisted STED nanoscopy
Applied Physics Letters 101: 021111, 2012.
Nano-particle
assisted STED nanoscopy
ACS Nano 6: 5291, 2012.
See also Perspective
Article at
Plasmonics meets far-field optical
nanoscopy
ACS Nano 6: 4580, 2012.
Plasmonic
sinks for the selective removal of long-lived states
ACS
Nano 5: 9958, 2011.
Reinterpreting
the magnetoelectric coupling of infinite cylinders using symmetry
Physical
Review B 94: 035142, 2016.
Spontaneously-formed
auto-focusing caustics in a confined self-defocusing medium
Optica
2: 1053-1056 (2015).
Independence of plasmonic near-filed enhancement to illumination beam
profile
Physical Review B 86: 155441, 2012.
Frequency-domain
simulations of a negative-index material with embedded gain
Optics Express 17: 24060-74, 2009.
A quantitative approach to
soliton instability
Optics Letters 36: 397-9, 2011.
Qualitative and
quantitative analysis of stability and instability dynamics of positive lattice
solitons
Physical Review E 78: 046602, 2008.
Also available at the November 2008 edition of the APS virtual journal.
Drift instability and tunneling
of lattice solitons
Physical Review E 77: 045601(R), 2008.
Analytic
theory of narrow lattice solitons
Nonlinearity 21: 509-536, 2008.
Instability
of bound states of a nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a Dirac potential
Physica D 237: 1103-1128, 2008.
Also available at the October 2006 edition of the APS virtual journal.
Interaction-induced
localization of anomalously diffracting nonlinear waves
Physical Review Letters 97: 193901, 2006.
Control
of the filamentation distance and pattern in long-range atmospheric propagation
Optics Express 15: 2779-2784, 2007.
Control
of the collapse distance in atmospheric propagation
Optics Express 14: 4946-4957, 2006.
Dr. Kaizad
Rustomji, Aix-Marseille Universite
Dr. Ieng Wai
Un; now at South China normal
University
Dr. Subhajit Sarkar; now at SRM Institute of Science and
Technology, India