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This article reviews the new developments in Tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS). The fundamental mechanisms underlying the Raman enhancement are discussed, including the role of the plasmonic character of the metallic tips, the nature of…
This paper reports the first study carried out by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) during the galvanostatic electrodeposition (ECD) of copper from an acidic sulphate solution, in the presence of polyethylene glycol (PEG),…
We present a self-consistent quantum optics approach to calculating the surface enhanced Raman spectrum of molecules coupled to arbitrarily shaped plasmonic systems. Our treatment is intuitive to use and provides fresh analytical insight…
The use of external restraints is ubiquitous in advanced molecular simulation techniques. In general, restraints serve to reduce the configurational space that is available for sampling, thereby reducing the computational demands associated…
Electromagnetic (EM) coupling between molecular exciton and plasmon has been studied using in Rayleigh scattering or extinction spectroscopy. However, evaluating EM coupling involving subradiant plasmon is challenging because this resonance…
Recent theoretical investigations have indicated that rapid optical cycling should be feasible in complex polyatomic molecules with diverse constituents, geometries and symmetries. However, as a composite molecular mass grows, so does the…
Quantifying formidable multiple coupling effects involved in Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a prerequisite for accurate design of SERS probes with superior detection limit and uniformity which are the targets for trace…
Exosomes are significant facilitators of inter-cellular communication that can unveil cell-cell interactions, signaling pathways, regulatory mechanisms and disease diagnostics. Nonetheless, current analysis required large amount of data for…
Photoreflectance is used for the characterisation of semiconductor samples, usually by sweeping the monochromatized probe beam within the energy range comprised between the highest value set by the pump beam and the lowest absorption…
Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) exploits surface plasmons induced by the incident field in metallic nanostructures to significantly increase the Raman intensity. Graphene provides the ideal prototype two dimensional (2d) test…
Surface lattice resonances (SLRs) in metasurfaces have become a transformative platform for subwavelength optical devices, leveraging their high quality (Q)-factors, pronounced local field enhancement, and extensive long-range interactions.…
Nanopores spanning synthetic membranes have been used as key components in proof-of-principle nanofluidic applications, particularly those involving manipulation of biomolecules or sequencing of DNA. The only practical way of manipulating…
Raman scattering is the inelastic process where photons bounce off molecules, losing energy and becoming red-shifted. This weak effect is unique to each molecular species, making it an essential tool in e.g. spectroscopy and label-free…
We present a method for deriving limits on Raman scattering in structured media and exploit it to constrain the maximum Raman signal resulting from a planewave incident on either a single Raman molecule in the vicinity of a structured…
Chiral nanophotonic platforms provide a means of creating near fields with both enhanced asymmetric properties and intensities. They can be exploited for optical measurements that allow enantiomeric discrimination at detection levels…
Deploying generative machine learning techniques to generate novel chemical structures based on molecular fingerprint representation has been well established in molecular design. Typically, sequential learning (SL) schemes such as hidden…
Implicit shape representation, such as SDFs, is a popular approach to recover the surface of a 3D shape as the level sets of a scalar field. Several methods approximate SDFs using machine learning strategies that exploit the knowledge that…
The accurate description of molecule-surface interactions requires a detailed knowledge of the underlying potential-energy surface (PES). Recently, neural networks (NNs) have been shown to be an efficient technique to accurately interpolate…
We suggest a new type of substrates for the Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering measurements with the geometry based on self-similar fractal space filling curves. As an example, we have studied theoretically the dielectric response properties…