Publications associées à Strong enhancement of forbidden atomic transitions using plasmonic nanostructures

Plasmonically enhanced molecular junctions for investigation of atomic-scale fluctuations in self-assembled monolayers

Molecular junctions represent a fascinating frontier in the realm of nanotechnology and are one of the smallest optoelectronic devices possible, consisting of individual molecules or a group of molecules that serve as the active element sandwiched between ...

EPFL2024

Electromagnetic processes of nuclear excitation: from direct photoabsorption to free electron and muon capture

Simone Gargiulo

In the vast expanse of the Universe and on our planet, nuclei exist in a state of excitement. These excited nuclear states (isomers) can persist for varying periods, from fractions of a second to billions of years and beyond, before decaying to their groun ...

EPFL2023

Gas/Surface reactions probed by reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy

Harmina Vejayan

In my thesis, I present an investigation of the dissociation reactions of gas phase molecules on single crystal metal surfaces studied by a molecular beam in combination with Reflection Absorption Infrared Spectroscopy (RAIRS). Two gas/surface systems were ...

EPFL2023

Nuclear Excitation by Free Muon Capture

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Simone Gargiulo

Efficient excitation of nuclei via exchange of a real or virtual photon has a fundamental importance for nuclear science and technology development. Here, we present a mechanism of nuclear excitation based on the capture of a free muon into the atomic orbi ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

A novel hydrogenic spectroscopic technique for inferring the role of plasma-molecule interaction on power and particle balance during detached conditions

Basil Duval, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Mirko Wensing, Artur Perek

Detachment, an important mechanism for reducing target heat deposition, is achieved through reductions in power, particle and momentum; which are induced through plasma-atom and plasma-molecule interactions. Experimental research in how those reactions pre ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Semiclassical Approach to Photophysics Beyond Kasha’s Rule and Vibronic Spectroscopy Beyond the Condon Approximation. The Case of Azulene

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Marius Wehrle, Jiri Vanicek, Tomas Zimmermann, Julien Roulet, Antonio Prlj, Tomislav Begusic, Seonghoon Choi, Zhan Tong Zhang, George Cameron Fish

Azulene is a prototypical molecule with ananomalousfluorescence from the second excited electronic state,thus violating Kasha’s rule, and with an emission spectrum thatcannot be understood within the Condon approximation. To betterunderstand the photophysi ...

2020

Infrared Spectroscopy as a Probe of Electronic Energy Transfer

Thomas Rizzo, Aleksandra Zabuga, Antonio Prlj, Valeriu Scutelnic

We have combined electronic and vibrational spec- troscopy in a cryogenic ion trap to produce highly resolved, conformer-selective spectra for the ground and excited states of a peptide containing two chromophores. These spectra permit us to determine the ...

2018

Synthetic spectra of BeH, BeD and BeT for emission modeling in JET plasmas

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Robin Humphry-Baker, Stefano Coda, Martinus Gijs, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Julio Rodriguez, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Rebecca Hill, Daniel Scott Alessi, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Federico Nespoli, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Hamish William Patten, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Li Shuai, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, , , , , , , , ,

Adsorption Sites of Metal Atoms on MgO Thin Films and Rotational Quantum State Spectroscopy of Physisorbed H₂

Edgar Fernandes

The work presented in this thesis covers two different topics of surface science, both investigated with the scanning tunneling miscroscopy and spectroscopy at low temperatures (5~K). First, we are interested in the spectroscopic properties of physisorbed ...

EPFL2017

Photophysics of a copper phenanthroline elucidated by trajectory and wavepacket-based quantum dynamics: a synergetic approach

Majed Chergui, Ivano Tavernelli, Thomas James Penfold, Gloria Capano

On-the-fly excited state molecular dynamics is a valuable method for studying non-equilibrium processes in excited states and is beginning to emerge as a mature approach much like its ground state counterparts. In contrast to quantum wavepacket dynamics me ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Quantum-state-resolved reactivity of overtone excited CH4 on Ni(111): Comparing experiment and theory

Rainer Beck, Phil Morten Hundt, Maarten Eduard van Reijzen

Quantum state resolved reactivity measurements probe the role of vibrational symmetry on the vibrational activation of the dissociative chemisorption of CH4 on Ni(111). IR-IR double resonance excitation in a molecular beam was used to prepare CH4 in three ...

American Institute of Physics2017

Orientation Dependence of Plasmonically Enhanced Spontaneous Emission

Olivier Martin

We computationally explore how the orientation of dipolar emitters placed near plasmonic nanostructures affects their radiative enhancement and spontaneous emission rate. We demonstrate that the expressions for these quantities show a subtle dependence on ...

American Chemical Society2016

Dual Luminescence, Interligand Decay, and Nonradiative Electronic Relaxation of Cyclometalated Iridium Complexes in Solution

Majed Chergui, Olivier Christian Bräm, Andrea Cannizzo, Mahsa Silatani, Enrico Pomarico

Femtosecond broadband photoluminescence studies are presented for Ir(ppy)(3) (Ir1), Ir(ppy)(2)(pic) (Ir2), Ir(ppy)(2)(bpy)(PF6) (Ir3), Ir(ppz)(3) (Ir4), and Ir(ppz)(2)dipy (Ir5) (where ppy = 2-phenylpyridine, pic = picolinate, bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine, ppz = ...

American Chemical Society2016

Preparation of state purified beams of He, Ne, C, N, and O atoms

Andreas Osterwalder, Justinas Jankunas

The production and guiding of ground state and metastable C, N, and O atoms in a two-meter-long, bent magnetic guide are described. Pure beams of metastable He(3S1) and Ne(3P2), and of ground state N(4S3/2) and O(3P2) are obtained using an Even-Lavie valve ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Dynamics of UV-excited, protonated peptides in the gas phase

Aleksandra Zabuga

The scope of this thesis is the electronically excited state dynamics of protonated peptides and their photofragmentation mechanism. UV radiation induces fragmentation of biological molecules and might cause various diseases, such as cataracts or skin canc ...

EPFL2014

Vibrational Activation of Methane Chemisorption: The Role of Symmetry

Rainer Beck, Phil Morten Hundt, Hirokazu Ueta, Maarten Eduard van Reijzen

Quantum state-resolved reactivity measurements probe the role of vibrational symmetry on the vibrational activation of the dissociative chemisorption of CH4 on Pt(111). IR–IR double resonance excitation in a molecular beam is used to prepare CH4 in all thr ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Steric hindrance at metal centre quenches green phosphorescence of cationic iridium(III) complexes with 1-(2-pyridyl)-pyrazoles

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Rosario Scopelliti

Cationic cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes (N,C-2'-2-phenylpyridyl)(2)Ir((NN)-N-boolean AND) with alkyl-substituted 1-(2'-pyridyl)-pyrazole (NN)-N-boolean AND ligands exhibit green phosphorescence from a cyclometalating-ligand-centered excited s ...

Elsevier2013

Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Barium-doped Helium Nanodroplets

Marcel Drabbels, Evgeniy Loginov

Excitation spectra up to the ionization threshold are reported for barium atoms located on the surface of helium nanodroplets. For states with low principal quantum number, the resonances are substantially broadened and shifted towards higher energy with r ...

American Institute of Physics2012

Surface-Plasmon-Induced Modification on the Spontaneous Emission Spectrum via Subwavelength-Confined Anisotropic Purcell Factor

Olivier Martin, Jingwen Zhang

The mechanism of using the anisotropic Purcell factor to control the spontaneous emission linewidths in a four-level atom is theoretically demonstrated; if the polarization angle bisector of the two dipole moments lies along the axis of large/small Purcell ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2012

Quantum-statistical properties of the emission from two-level atoms embedded in coupled cavities

Antonio Quattropani, Paolo Schwendimann

The quantum-statistical properties of the radiation emitted from two coupled cavities containing one or two two-level atoms are discussed, and both configurations are compared. The results concerning stationary photon statistics, photon blocking, squeezing ...

Amer Physical Soc2012