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Light Emission and Conductance Fluctuations in Electrically Driven and Plasmonically Enhanced Molecular Junctions

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Sakthi Priya Amirtharaj, Wen Chen, Konstantin Malchow

Electrically connected and plasmonically enhanced molecular junctions combine the optical functionalities of high field confinement and enhancement (cavity function), and of high radiative efficiency (antenna function) with the electrical functionalities o ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Remote Dual-Cavity Enhanced Second Harmonic Generation in a Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguide

Wen Chen

On-chip nanoscale optical platforms capable of efficient second harmonic generation (SHG) are highly desired for optical sensing, subwavelength coherent sources, and quantum photonic devices. Here, we develop a remotely excited dual cavity resonance scheme ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Plasmonic nanobar-on-mirror antenna with giant local chirality: a new platform for ultrafast chiral single-photon emission

Wen Chen, Kai Wang

Providing an additional degree of freedom for binary information encoding and nonreciprocal information transmission, chiral single photons have become a new research frontier in quantum optics. Without using complex external conditions (e.g., magnetic fie ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Quantitative and sensitive detection of alpha fetoprotein in serum by a plasmonic sensor

Tianzong Zhang, Wen Chen, Fei Gao

Quantitative molecular detection based on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is still a great challenge because of the highly nonuniform distribution of the SERS hot spots and the nondeterministic spatial and spectral overlap of the analyte with th ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2022

Phononic Cavity Optomechanics of Atomically Thin Crystal in Plasmonic Nanocavity

Wen Chen

In the picture of molecular cavity optomechanics, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) can be understood as molecular oscillators parametrically coupled to plasmonic nanocavities supporting an extremely localized optical field. This enables SERS from c ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Strong plasmon-exciton coupling in transition metal dichalcogenides and plasmonic nanostructures

Yang Li, Wen Chen

Achieving strong coupling between emitters and cavity photons holds an important position in the light-matter interaction due to its applications such as polariton lasing, all-optical switches, and quantum information processing. However, room-temperature ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Continuous-wave frequency upconversion with a molecular optomechanical nanocavity

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Tobias Kippenberg, Philippe Andreas Rölli, Sakthi Priya Amirtharaj, Wen Chen, Sachin Suresh Verlekar

Coherent upconversion of terahertz and mid-infrared signals into visible light opens new horizons for spectroscopy, imaging, and sensing but represents a challenge for conventional nonlinear optics. Here, we used a plasmonic nanocavity hosting a few hundre ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2021

Controlling the immobilization process of an optically enhanced protein microarray for highly reproducible immunoassay

Wen Chen, Yang Liu, Wei Dai

By virtue of its high throughput multiplex detection capability, superior read-out sensitivity, and tiny analyte consumption, an optically enhanced protein microarray assay has been developed as a promising diagnostic tool for various applications, ranging ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Intrinsic luminescence blinking from plasmonic nanojunctions

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Tobias Kippenberg, Philippe Andreas Rölli, Giulia Tagliabue, Karla Banjac, Aqeel Ahmed, Wen Chen, Sachin Suresh Verlekar

Plasmonic nanojunctions, consisting of adjacent metal structures with nanometre gaps, can support localised plasmon resonances that boost light matter interactions and concentrate electromagnetic fields at the nanoscale. In this regime, the optical respons ...

Nature Research2021

Dual-Tone Raman Study of Optical Picocavities

Aqeel Ahmed, Wen Chen, Sachin Suresh Verlekar

IEEE2021

Experimental evaluation and modeling of fatigue of a 316L austenitic stainless steel in high-temperature water and air environments

Wen Chen

Austenitic stainless steels is used in many components of nuclear power plants, particularly in the pipes of cooling systems. Owing to power transients and to start-ups and shutdowns, these components are subjected to thermo-mechanical loadings (low-cycle ...

EPFL2020

Direct visualization of phase-matched efficient second harmonic and broadband sum frequency generation in hybrid plasmonic nanostructures

Wen Chen

Second harmonic generation and sum frequency generation (SHG and SFG) provide effective means to realize coherent light at desired frequencies when lasing is not easily achievable. They have found applications from sensing to quantum optics and are of part ...

SPRINGERNATURE2020