Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Gregory Barbillon, Andrey Ivanov, Andrey K. Sarychev
Summary: The study focuses on maximizing surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) by designing efficient substrates for chemical molecule adsorption. The hybrid asymmetric dimer array on a gold film shows significant enhancement in SERS signal for thiophenol molecules. Understanding the adsorption efficiency and constant K value is crucial for predicting SERS activity and developing sensors for various analytes.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Xiaolu Xie, Jiahong Zhang, Min Li, Qingquan Liu, Xiaoli Mao
Summary: This paper presents a MEMS chip-level pressure sensor based on aluminum-silicon hybrid structures, which shows good performance in structure design and temperature drift suppression. The sensor achieves high sensitivity and low temperature drift requirements through aluminum-silicon hybrid structures and temperature compensation measures.
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Analytical
Alisher Sultangaziyev, Aisha Ilyas, Aigerim Dyussupova, Rostislav Bukasov
Summary: This article compares the applications of traditional gold and silver-based SERS substrates and less conventional substrates on sensing, biosensing, and clinical analysis. The results show that Si and Al-based substrates, when combined with gold and silver nanostructures, can produce comparable results to conventional substrates with lower cost and better stability. They can be considered as alternatives to gold and silver-based substrates.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Dubravko Risovic, Hrvoje Gebavi, Mile Ivanda
Summary: Nanostructured materials play a significant role in applications such as surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) due to their optical properties. The fractal dimension and lacunarity have a profound influence on SERS enhancement. The percolation theory explains the strong enhancement observed at a fractal dimension of approximately 2.54.
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Tiago Fernandes, Natercia C. T. Martins, Sara Fateixa, Helena I. S. Nogueira, Ana L. Daniel-da-Silva, Tito Trindade
Summary: Research on paper substrates prepared by inkjet deposition of metal nanoparticles for sensing applications has become a hot topic. In this study, dendrimer-stabilized colloidal metal nanoalloys were inkjet printed onto paper substrates for surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy. The colloids exhibited high stability and the paper substrates showed improved SERS sensitivity after pre-treatment with a polystyrene (PS) emulsion. The resulting hydrophobic substrates demonstrated long-term plasmonic stability and high SERS signal retention.
JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
(2022)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Gregory Barbillon
Summary: Metasurfaces have the ability to confine electromagnetic fields on large surfaces and zones, making them suitable for applications in biochemical sensing, photocatalysis, etc. They enhance the effects of SERS and SEIRA sensing by the presence of hotspots and confined optical modes within their structures, as well as by supporting resonances at frequencies of the excitation and emission processes. Additionally, Metasurfaces enhance the absorption capacity of solar light and generate more catalytic active sites for faster surface reactions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Menbere Leul Mekonnen, Yitayal Admassu Workie, Wei-Nien Su, Bing Joe Hwang
Summary: This review discusses the fabrication of low-cost, flexible SERS substrates using paper, highlighting its advantages and methods. It evaluates the pros and cons of different fabrication methods, and explores ways to improve substrate performance and obtain additional analytical functionalities. Finally, it also suggests opportunities and challenges in realizing a low-cost commercial plasmonic paper substrate.
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
(2021)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Yuanyuan Xu, Xingguo Gao, Cheng Yang, Baoyuan Man, Jiancai Leng
Summary: In this study, raspberry-like bimetallic nanostructures were assembled on an arrow-shaped paper strip to enhance the sensitivity and stability of SERS detection for complex samples. The substrate with charge gradients and arrow-shaped non-interference tips showed integrated shunt and preconcentration abilities, providing a promising solution for the detection of mixed samples.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
N. Fumeaux, D. Briand
Summary: Transient electronics provide a solution for reducing electronic waste and for use in implantable bioelectronics. We present a scalable method that combines chemical and photonic mechanisms to sinter printed Zn microparticles. The resulting patterns show high electrical conductivity, enabling the fabrication of biodegradable sensors and LC circuits.
NPJ FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS
(2023)
Article
Spectroscopy
Lyndsay N. Kissell, Manisha Sheokand, Pietro Strobbia
Summary: Homogeneous surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensors have great potential in environmental analysis by allowing in situ analysis and continuous monitoring of pollutants without the need for laboratory analysis of collected samples. These sensors utilize functional DNA strands on the surface of SERS-active particles and can be adapted to detect small molecules through the use of aptamer sequences. However, the design rules for aptamer-based SERS sensors have not been established, limiting their full adaptability. This study aims to define a design protocol for aptamer-based homogeneous SERS sensors and demonstrates its application for ATP and estradiol detection.
JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY
(2023)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Rostislav Bukasov, Alisher Sultangaziyev, Zhanar Kunushpayeva, Alisher Rapikov, Dina Dossym
Summary: The first application of aluminum foil as a low-cost/high-availability substrate for sandwich immunoassay using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is reported. It showed comparable limits of detection (LODs) for tuberculosis biomarker MPT64 with traditional sandwich ELISA using gold film, but with a large cost/availability advantage. Furthermore, it exhibited better selectivity and lower nonspecific response compared to gold film in human immunoglobulin (hIgG) assays.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Veronica Vespini, Simonetta Grilli, Pietro Ferraro, Romina Rega, Heidi Ottevaere, Yunfeng Nie, Pellegrino Musto, Marianna Pannico
Summary: The pyro-electrohydrodynamic jet printing technology was used to fabricate confined assemblies of gold nanoparticles and evaluated for its surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) performance. The results showed strong plasmonic effects, reproducible signals, and affinity with biomolecules, indicating potential applications in biosensing.
FRONTIERS IN BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Yiyue Luo, Yunzhu Li, Pratyusha Sharma, Wan Shou, Kui Wu, Michael Foshey, Beichen Li, Tomas Palacios, Antonio Torralba, Wojciech Matusik
Summary: The study presents a textile-based tactile learning platform created through digital machine knitting of piezoresistive fibers to record, monitor, and learn human-environment interactions. Machine learning techniques are utilized for sensing correction and calibration to ensure robustness against variations in individual sensors, capturing diverse human-environment interactions. The platform demonstrates the capability to classify humans' interactions, recover dynamic whole-body poses, reveal spatial information, and discover biomechanical signatures.
NATURE ELECTRONICS
(2021)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Huixiang Wu, Shanduo Chen, Yifan Wang, Jiefeng Tan, Yunhui Feng, Liping Hou, Huan Wang
Summary: In this study, two kinds of spiny gold nanoparticles and a triangular gold nanoparticle were synthesized and used for the detection of methyl parathion. The nanoparticles showed high enhancement factors and favorable quantitative analysis capability.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Ashok Kumar Dhinakaran, Priya Dharmalingam, Swarna Ganesh, Krishnan Venkatakrishnan, Sunit Das, Bo Tan
Summary: This study highlights the potential of T cells as diagnostic markers for glioblastoma. By studying the phenotypic and immunological changes in T cells, two clinically validated biomarkers, GBMAT and GSCAT, were established. These biomarkers demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity in diagnosing GBM, and were further validated using a machine learning algorithm.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
A. K. Sarychev, A. Ivanov, G. Barbillon
Summary: This theoretical study demonstrates that a giant electromagnetic field can be generated in a supernarrow nanoslit formed by a silver cylinder and a flat mirror surface, resulting in resonant amplification of the field due to the excitation of gap plasmons. The amplification of the electric field increases with decreasing distance between the surfaces and reaches saturation, leading to record high field intensity exceeding the incident wave intensity by ten orders of magnitude. The discovered gap plasmon modes will enhance the sensitivity of detecting small concentrations of molecules, down to single molecules, using giant Raman scattering of light and plasmon-enhanced IR spectroscopy.
QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
(2021)
Review
Optics
Gregory Barbillon
Summary: SHINERS is a novel Raman spectroscopy technique that utilizes plasmonic cores and silica shells to enhance the Raman signal of molecules, making it suitable for catalytic reactions requiring high thermal and chemical stability, with strong surface sensitivity for research at liquid-solid interfaces. Recent studies in the past two years have focused on the applications of this technology in reactions involving CO molecules, surface catalytic reactions, and the detection of molecules and ions.
Article
Optics
Giovanni Magno, Marco Grande, Antonella D'Orazio
Summary: This paper introduces a multifunctional and spectrally reconfigurable asymmetric 1D PhC Fabry-Perot cavity structure that can function as a filter, absorber, amplitude modulator, and phase shifter for reflected electromagnetic waves. By controlling the chemical potential of graphene monolayers and the orientation of liquid crystal molecules, the amplitude and phase-shift angle of reflected electromagnetic waves can be modulated.
Article
Optics
Sergio Ivan Flores Esparza, Olivier Gauthier-Lafaye, David Gauchard, Giovanna Calo, Giovanni Magno, Vincenzo Petruzzelli, Antoine Monmayrant
Summary: Mesoscopic Photonic Crystals (MPhCs) are composed of alternating natural or artificial materials with compensating spatial dispersion, allowing self-collimation of light. A new design method is proposed for conceiving MPhCs that allow MSC under oblique incidence, avoiding in-plane scattering and ensuring propagation via purely guided modes. This simple yet powerful method can pave the way for the design of advanced MSC-based photonic interconnects and circuits immune to crosstalk and out-of-plane losses.
Article
Optics
Giovanni Magno, Benjamin Leroy, David Barat, Laetitia Pradere, Beatrice Dagens
Summary: This study numerically demonstrates that surface lattice resonances (SLR) can be excited in periodic localized surface plasmon (LSP) waveguides integrated on a dielectric waveguide through in-phase evanescent coupling, even when the structure lacks symmetry. The coupling between wideband LSP resonances and narrowband SLR produces a Fano-like resonance, which exhibits sharp spectral features in the nanometer scale, suggesting potential applications in integrated optics and sensing.
Editorial Material
Optics
Gregory Barbillon
Article
Physics, Applied
Andrey K. Sarychev, Andrey Ivanov, Andrey N. Lagarkov, Ilya Ryzhikov, Konstantin Afanasev, Igor Bykov, Gregory Barbillon, Nikita Bakholdin, Mikhail Mikhailov, Alexander Smyk, Alexander Shurygin, Alexander Shalygin
Summary: This study presents the design and fabrication of metal-dielectric metasurfaces, as well as their application in the excitation of plasmons and surface-enhanced Raman scattering. By utilizing the periodic arrangement of metal nanogratings on a dielectric substrate, an open plasmon resonator is formed, leading to the enhancement of the local electromagnetic field at optical frequencies.
PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED
(2022)
Article
Optics
Gregory Barbillon
Summary: This study presents a research on the sensing of chemical molecules using Au nanoparticles coated ZnO film by employing the photo-induced enhanced Raman scattering (PIERS) coupled to the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). The aim of coupling the PIERS to classical SERS is to achieve high sensitivity of detection. The detection of thiophenol showed a limit concentration of 100 pM, an adsorption capacity (K-Ads) of 3.2 x 10(6) M-1 and an analytical enhancement factor of 1.9 x 10(10).
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Gregory Barbillon
Summary: Metasurfaces have the ability to confine electromagnetic fields on large surfaces and zones, making them suitable for applications in biochemical sensing, photocatalysis, etc. They enhance the effects of SERS and SEIRA sensing by the presence of hotspots and confined optical modes within their structures, as well as by supporting resonances at frequencies of the excitation and emission processes. Additionally, Metasurfaces enhance the absorption capacity of solar light and generate more catalytic active sites for faster surface reactions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Gregory Barbillon, Christophe Humbert, Maria Ujue Gonzalez, Jose Miguel Garcia-Martin
Summary: In this study, we investigated chemical sensing using surface-enhanced Raman scattering with gold nanocolumn templates. The glancing angle deposition with magnetron sputtering technique was chosen for its low-cost production and ease of implementation. The fabricated gold nanocolumnar structures allowed for the production of a high density of strongly confined electric field spots. The vertical and tilted nanocolumnar templates showed promising results for the detection and adsorption of thiophenol molecules.
Review
Physics, Applied
Alemayehu Nana Koya, Marco Romanelli, Joel Kuttruff, Nils Henriksson, Andrei Stefancu, Gustavo Grinblat, Aitor De Andres, Fritz Schnur, Mirko Vanzan, Margherita Marsili, Mahfujur Rahaman, Alba Viejo Rodriguez, Tlek Tapani, Haifeng Lin, Bereket Dalga Dana, Jingquan Lin, Gregory Barbillon, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Daniele Brida, Deep Jariwala, Laszlo Veisz, Emiliano Cortes, Stefano Corni, Denis Garoli, Nicolo Maccaferri
Summary: In the past twenty years, significant progress has been made in understanding light-driven phenomena in nanoscale systems, while exploring the temporal dynamics of excited states remains a challenge. Ultrafast plasmonics, which focuses on tailoring and controlling optical and electronic processes at the nanoscale, offers great potential for applications such as optical switching and photochemical reactions. This review provides an overview of the field, discussing methodologies for monitoring and controlling nanoscale phenomena with plasmons, and highlighting recent advances in plasmon-driven chemistry and multifunctional plasmonics.
APPLIED PHYSICS REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Gregory Barbillon
Summary: This study investigates the Fermi level shifts of gold nanospheres on zinc oxide (ZnO) film upon UV irradiation. The shifts are obtained by recording the extinction spectra of gold nanospheres and are attributed to the additional electrons stored in the nanospheres from ZnO film. The blueshift of plasmon resonance of the Au nanospheres indicates the transfer of electrons from ZnO film to Au nanospheres upon UV irradiation. The Fermi level shifts vary with UV irradiation time and can be estimated by a model based on the electronic structure of a semiconductor.
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Andrey K. Sarychev, Gregory Barbillon, Andrey Ivanov
Summary: This study presents generic, analytical equations for the localized plasmons in a narrow gap between a metal/dielectric cylinder and a metal surface. The electric field distribution in the nanogap is obtained using the quasi-static approximation. The maximum electric field is achieved when the incident light is in resonance with the plasmon mode in the gap, and can be significantly enhanced. The analytical model results are in good agreement with a known theoretical model and experimental results of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). The narrow gap resonator appears to be a powerful and flexible tool for various spectroscopies such as SERS and infrared absorption.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2023)
Proceedings Paper
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Giovanni Magno, Marco Grande, Antonella D'Orazio
Summary: This manuscript presents a numerical investigation of a new design featuring 1D photonic crystals and reconfigurable materials. The structure can perform several reconfigurable narrowband optical functions and the effects of monolayer graphene and liquid crystal polarization are detailed.
METAMATERIALS XIII
(2022)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Sevag Abadian, Giovanni Magno, Vy Yam, Beatrice Dagens
2021 CONFERENCE ON LASERS AND ELECTRO-OPTICS EUROPE & EUROPEAN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS CONFERENCE (CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC)
(2021)
