Search Results - "Bragas, Andrea V."
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The Progress of the Latin American Photonics Community - and a Brief Mention about Mechanical Nanoresonators
Published in IEEE photonics journal (01-12-2023)“…In this article, we will briefly review the history and progress of photonics in Latin America, describing the discipline's development over the years and its…”
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High-Efficiency Second Harmonic Generation from a Single Hybrid ZnO Nanowire/Au Plasmonic Nano-Oligomer
Published in Nano letters (12-11-2014)“…We introduce a plasmonic-semiconductor hybrid nanosystem, consisting of a ZnO nanowire coupled to a gold pentamer oligomer by crossing the hot-spot. It is…”
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Engineering gallium phosphide nanostructures for efficient nonlinear photonics and enhanced spectroscopies
Published in Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) (01-12-2021)“…Optical resonances arising from quasi-bound states in the continuum (QBICs) have been recently identified in nanostructured dielectrics, showing ultrahigh…”
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Si metasurface supporting multiple quasi-BICs for degenerate four-wave mixing
Published in Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) (20-08-2024)“…Dielectric metasurfaces supporting quasi-bound states in the continuum (qBICs) enable high field enhancement with narrow-linewidth resonances in the visible…”
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Introducing a Symmetry‐Breaking Coupler into a Dielectric Metasurface Enables Robust High‐Q Quasi‐BICs
Published in Advanced photonics research (01-12-2022)“…Dielectric metasurfaces supporting quasibound states in the continuum (quasi‐BICs) exhibit very high‐quality factor resonances and electric field confinement…”
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Monitoring in real-time focal adhesion protein dynamics in response to a discrete mechanical stimulus
Published in Review of scientific instruments (01-01-2017)“…The adhesion of cells to the extracellular matrix is a hierarchical, force-dependent, multistage process that evolves at several temporal scales. An…”
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Non-plasmonic nanoantennas for surface enhanced spectroscopies with ultra-low heat conversion
Published in Nature communications (04-08-2015)“…Nanoplasmonics has recently revolutionized our ability to control light on the nanoscale. Using metallic nanostructures with tailored shapes, it is possible to…”
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Focusing Surface Acoustic Waves with a Plasmonic Hypersonic Lens
Published in Nano letters (29-05-2024)“…Plasmonic nanoantennas have proven to be efficient transducers of electromagnetic to mechanical energy and vice versa. The sudden thermal expansion of these…”
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Direct Detection of Optical Forces of Magnetic Nature in Dielectric Nanoantennas
Published in Nano letters (14-10-2020)“…Optical forces on nanostructures are usually characterized by their interaction with the electric field component of the light wave, given that most materials…”
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Coherent Acoustic Phonons in Plasmonic Nanoparticles: Elastic Properties and Dissipation at Low Temperatures
Published in ACS nano (19-11-2024)“…We studied the frequency and quality factor of mechanical plasmonic nanoresonators as a function of temperature, ranging from ambient to 4 K. Our investigation…”
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Acoustic Far-Field Hypersonic Surface Wave Detection with Single Plasmonic Nanoantennas
Published in Physical review letters (21-12-2018)“…The optical properties of small metallic particles allow us to bridge the gap between the myriad of subdiffraction local phenomena and macroscopic optical…”
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Monitoring the Photothermal Reshaping of Individual Plasmonic Nanorods with Coherent Mechanical Oscillations
Published in Journal of physical chemistry. C (27-12-2018)“…Light absorption in gold nanoparticles leads to metal heating that induces photothermal reshaping because of atomic surface diffusion at temperatures well…”
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Acoustic Coupling between Plasmonic Nanoantennas: Detection and Directionality of Surface Acoustic Waves
Published in ACS photonics (20-10-2021)“…Hypersound waves can be efficient mediators between optical signals at the nanoscale. Having phase velocities several orders of magnitude lower than the speed…”
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Coverage and Aggregation of Gold Nanoparticles on Silanized Glasses
Published in Langmuir (19-10-2010)“…We study the dynamics of the coverage and aggregation of gold nanoparticles over organosilanized glass substrates for different sizes of nanoparticles. We…”
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Metal Nanoparticle Ensembles: Tunable Laser Pulses Distinguish Monomer from Dimer Vibrations
Published in Nano letters (14-09-2011)“…Resonant interaction of laser pulses with plasmons is used to identify vibrations associated with isolated spheres and pairs of contacting spheres in a system…”
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A Nonlinear Switching Mechanism in Quantum Dot and Metallic Nanoparticle Hybrid Systems
Published in Advanced optical materials (01-06-2013)“…Second harmonic generation and two‐photon photoluminescence in CdS quantum dots near metallic nanoparticles are theoretically and experimentally investigated…”
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Correction to “Tailored Hypersound Generation in Single Plasmonic Nanoantennas”
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Tailored Hypersound Generation in Single Plasmonic Nanoantennas
Published in Nano letters (10-02-2016)“…Ultrashort laser pulses impinging on a plasmonic nanostructure trigger a highly dynamic scenario in the interplay of electronic relaxation with lattice…”
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Plasmonic Photothermal Fluorescence Modulation for Homogeneous Biosensing
Published in ACS sensors (23-11-2016)“…Fluorescence readout is uniquely powerful for biological assays and imaging because it combines the detection of specific biotargets with high spatial and…”
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Optical imaging with subnanometric vertical resolution using nanoparticle-based plasmonic probes
Published in Optics communications (01-03-2009)“…We present images with subnanometric optical resolution using novel metal nanoparticle-based probes in a Field Enhancement Scanning Optical Microscope. The…”
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