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Resolving transient atomic configurations in non-crystalline or dynamic environments remains a fundamental bottleneck in the physical sciences. While X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a premier probe of local structure, inverting…
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Development of fabrication protocols for large-area plasmonic nanostructures with sub-10 nm gaps with a spatially controlled distribution is critical for their real-world applications. In this work, we develop a simple, cleanroom-free…
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Plasmon hybridization between closely spaced nanoparticles yields new hybrid modes not found in individual constituents, allowing for the engineering of resonance properties and field enhancement capabilities of metallic nanostructure.…
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Scattering of light in complex media scrambles optical wavefronts and breaks the principles of conventional imaging methods. For decades, researchers have endeavored to conquer the problem by inventing approaches such as adaptive optics,…
Application of circularly polarized beams in interferometric illumination of colloid sphere monolayers enables the direct fabrication of rectangular patterns consisting of circular nanohole miniarrays in metal films. The spectral and…
We perform a study of the achievable field enhancement of plasmonic cascade nanolenses in the quantum and classical regimes, and explore the limits enforced at larger sizes by retardation and at smaller sizes by nonlocality and other…
With the advent of microsphere assisted microscopy in 2011, this technique emerged as a simple and easy way to obtain optical super-resolution. Although the possible mechanisms of imaging by microspheres are debated in the literature, most…
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