Research

Nanoplasmonics

  • Tailoring nano arrays for trapping atoms and molecules
  • Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: from light-induced transport to new forms of molecular machines
  • Light-induced, plasmon-mediated electron transport in junctions
  • Rapid thermalization in picosecond tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
  • Plasmonic enhancement of solar cells
  • Plasmonic quantum dot photodetectors
  • Controlling non-rigid molecules with plasmon-enhanced laser fields
  • Plasmon-driven hot electrons with single particle SERS

 


 

Molecules in Intense Fields

  • Symmetry effects in strong-field control
  • Design of laser-driven unidirectional molecule rotors
  • Wigner representation of the rotational dynamics of rigid tops
  • High order harmonic generation (HHG) from aligned molecules

 

 

 


Quantum Dynamics in Conduction Junctions

  • Current-driven desorption of hydrogen from corrugated hydrogenated graphene
  • Ultrafast electron-phonon dynamics in a junction
  • Electron transfer between discrete and continuum systems

 

 

 

 

 


Coherent and Incoherent Control

  • Quantum state preparation and detection of a single molecule
  • Role of control constraints in quantum optimal control
  • Quantum optimal environment engineering for efficient photoinduced charge separation
  • A four-dimensional approach to torsional control
  • Torsional control for long-range order in molecular assembly
  • Adiabatic alignment thresholds of molecules