Felix Benz

TL;DR: Statistical analysis of vibrational spectroscopy time series and dark-field scattering spectra provides evidence of single-molecule strong coupling, opening up the exploration of complex natural processes such as photosynthesis and the possibility of manipulating chemical bonds.

TL;DR: The experimental data taken in the NanoPhotonics Group at the Cavendish Laboratory (University of Cambridge) collected between 1/10/2014 to 1/02/2016 were used in this paper for single-molecule strong coupling at room temperature in plasmonic nanocavities.

TL;DR: This work found that individual atomic features inside the gap of a plasmonic nanoassembly can localize light to volumes well below 1 cubic nanometer, enabling optical experiments on the atomic scale, and sets the basis for developing nanoscale nonlinear quantum optics on the single-molecule level.

TL;DR: Changes of particle facet with nanoparticle size result in vastly weaker scaling of the near-field SERS, without much modifying the far-field, and allows simple approaches for optimizing practical sensing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate and explain why in tightly coupled plasmonic resonators forming nanocavities, quenching is quenched due to plasmor mixing, which can massively enhance emitter excitation and decay via radiative channels.