Research

The research activity is focused on nanoscience and nanotechnology involving metallic nanostructures for applications in plasmonics, nanophotonics and magnetism.
Among the investigated topics:

• Plasmonics

• Linear and nonlinear optical properties of metal nanostructures
• Plasmonic bio-sensors
• Modeling of the plasmonic properties of isolated or interacting nanostructures

• Nano-Photonics

• Emitter-Nanostructures interaction
• Energy transfer processes between emitters and plasmonic nanostructures

• Nano-Magnetism

• Bi-metallic nanostructures for magneto-plasmonics

• Thermodynamics and stability of nanostructures

• Thermodynamics of nucleation and growth
• Nano-alloying of immiscible elements by ion implantation
• Ion beam induced selective de-alloying

Self-assembled plasmonic NanoHole Array (NHA). The bar is about 1 micron.