Research

• Metallic nanoantennas

  

  Infrared and optical response in metallic nanoantennas

• Quantum plasmonics

  

  Theoretical description of quantum effects in plasmonic systems
  

• Acousto-plasmonics

  

  Interaction between acoustic vibrations and surface plasmons.

• Dielectric nanoantennas

  

  Dielectric nanoparticles for field enhanced spectroscopy

• Field enhanced spectroscopy and microscopy

  

  Seeing inside a single molecule with light
  
  

• Near field microscopy

  

  Theory to interpret near-field optical microscopy images.

• Plasmon excitation by fast electron probes

  

  Interaction of fast electrons, as those used in STEM with metallic nanoparticles.

• Photon emission in STM configurations

  

  Photons emitted from a tunneling microscopy cavity.

• Optical properties of semiconductor quantum dots

  

  We describe the optoelectronic properties of Quantum Dots with use of an atomistic tight-binding theory.