The Eurofel Support Laboratory research team has been combining its expertise in ultrafast optics with the manipulation of nanomaterials through plasmonics to investigate and develop novel new methods of nanofabrication. The basis of the approach is to use the ultrafast laser to thermally heat metal nanoparticles and to guide their melting in a controlled form to create new nanostructures. This new field of thermoplas-monics will certainly lead to the development of new nanofabrication techniques with applications in many different fields including metamaterials, sensors, catalysis, photo-thermal therapies, substrates for surface enhanced spectro-scopies and substrates for non-linear optics.
Staff: D. Catone, P. O’Keeffe, A. Paladini, F. Toschi, S. Turchini
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