Plasmonics and Ultrafast NanoOptics

Publications and Dissemination


2010

Paper D. Leipold, S. Schwieger, B. Ashall, D. Zerulla, E. Runge.
"Surface plasmon polaritons on square-lattice arrays of three-fold symmetric nanosctructures"
Photonics and Nanosctuctures, accepted (April 2010) link

Paper C. Andrei, T. O’Reilly and D. Zerulla
“A spatially resolved study on the Sn diffusion during the sintering process in the active layer of dye sensitised solar cells”
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., (2010)

Conference B. Ashall, B. Vohnsen, S. Schwieger, E. Runge, M. Berndt, D. Zerulla.
Talk Title: "Electromagnetic polarisation twisting mediated by plasmon / nanostructure interaction"
74th DPG Spring Meeting, Regensburg, Germany. (March 2010)

Conference B. Ashall, M. Berndt, D. Zerulla.
Talk Title: "Electrically influencing the surface plasmon dispersion relation"
74th DPG Spring Meeting, Regensburg, Germany. (March 2010)

Conference D. Zerulla, B. Ashall.
Talk Title: "Surface Plasmon Excitation on Magnetoactive Hybrid Materials"
74th DPG Spring Meeting, Regensburg, Germany. (March 2010)

Conference J. F. Lopez-Barbera, B. Ashall, D. Zerulla.
Talk Title: "Femtosecond Surface Plasmon Characterisation on Metallic Dielectric Interfaces"
74th DPG Spring Meeting, Regensburg, Germany. (March 2010)

Conference B. Ashall, D. Zerulla.
Talk Title: "Determination of surface plasmon polariton velocity measured by scattering scanning nearfield optical microscopy"
74th DPG Spring Meeting, Regensburg, Germany. (March 2010)

Conference G. Doyle, D. Zerulla
Talk Title: "Surface Plasmon Resonance Coupling on Magnetically Capped Gold Nanorods"
74th DPG Spring Meeting, Regensburg, Germany. (March 2010)


2009

Paper B. Ashall, B. Vohnsen, M. Berndt D. Zerulla.
"Controlling polarization twisting of light resulting from surface plasmon interactions with threefold symmetric nanostructures"
Phys. Rev. B 80, 245413 (Dec 2009) link

Thesis B. Ashall.
"Surface Plasmon Polaritons on Nanostructures Surfaces"
PhD, University College Dublin. (October 2009)

Conference S. Schwieger, D. Leipold, B. Ashall, M. Berndt, D. Zerulla, E. Runge.
“Surface plasmon polaritons on arrays of nanostructures with three-fold symmetry”
Tacona Photonics, Bad Honnef, Germany. (Oct 2009)

Thesis A. Pitek.
MSc Thesis, University College Dublin. (August 2009)

Thesis C. Andrei
"Manufacturing and investigation of the dye sensitised solar cells via high resolving imaging techniques and spectroscopy"
MSc Thesis, University College Dublin. (August 2009)

Conference B. Ashall, L. Sapienza, M. Berndt, J. F. Lopez-Barbera, B. Vohnsen, D. Zerulla
"Magnetic and Electric Influences on Surface Plasmons"
Surface Plasmon Photonics 4 (SPP4), Amsterdam, Netherlands. (June 2009) poster pdf

Conference S. Crosbie
Surface Plasmon Photonics 4 (SPP4), Amsterdam, Netherlands. (June 2009)

Conference G. Doyle
Surface Plasmon Photonics 4 (SPP4), Amsterdam, Netherlands. (June 2009)

Conference D. Zerulla, M. Berndt, B. Ashall
"Dynamically Tunable Nanostructures: New Horizons in Plasmonics"
Surface Plasmon Photonics 4 (SPP4), Amsterdam, Netherlands. (June 2009)

Conference J. F. Lopez-Barbera, B. Ashall, F. O'Reilly, M. Berndt, D. Zerulla
"Characterisation of Surface Plasmons on Nanostructured Surfaces with Femtosecond Temporal and Nanometer Spatial Resolutions"
Surface Plasmon Photonics 4 (SPP4), Amsterdam, Netherlands. (June 2009)

Paper D. Zerulla, T. Chassé.
"Structure and self-assembly of alkanethiols on III-V semiconductor (1 1 0) surfaces"
Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena (April 2009) link

Conference B. Ashall, M. Berndt, M. Rohmer P. Scholz, S. Schwieger, E. Runge, M. Aeschlimann, D. Zerulla.
"Surface Plasmon Focussing, Guiding and Polarisation Twisting Using Tailor Designed Nanostructured Arrays"
Institute of Physics Ireland Spring Meeting, Wexford (April 2009) (Rose Medal finalist) poster pdf

Conference J. F. Lopez-Barbera, B. Ashall, F. O'Reilly, D. Zerulla.
"Femtosecond Surface Plasmon Characterisation on Nanostructured Surfaces"
Institute of Physics Ireland Spring Meeting, Wexford (April 2009).

Paper M. Berndt, M. Rohmer, B. Ashall, C. Schneider, M. Aeschlimann, D. Zerulla.
"Polarization Selective Near-Field Focusing on Mesoscopic Surface Patterns with Threefold Symmetry Measured with PEEM"
Opt. Lett. 34, 959 (April 2009) link

Conference M. Berndt, B. Ashall, M. Rohmer, C. Schneider, M. Aeschlimann, D. Zerulla.
"Observations of Selective Near-Field Focusing on Three-Fold Symmetric, Mesoscopic Surface Patterns - Measured with PEEM"
Conference: 73rd DPG Spring meeting, Dresden, Germany. (March 2009).

Conference B. Ashall, D. Zerulla.
"Nanostructure Symmetry Induced Surface Plasmon Propagation Guiding and Polarisation Twisting"
73rd DPG Spring meeting, Dresden, Germany. (March 2009).

Conference D. Zerulla, B. Ashall, B. Vohnsen.
"Poisson's Spot and Focussing of Surface Plasmon Polaritons"
73rd DPG Spring meeting, Dresden, Germany. (March 2009).

Conference J. F. Lopez-Barbera, B. Ashall, F. O'Reilly, D. Zerulla.
"Femtosecond Surface Plasmon on Nanostructured Surfaces"
73rd DPG Spring meeting, Dresden, Germany. (March 2009).

Paper L. Sapienza, D. Zerulla.
"Surface plasmon excitation on magnetoactive materials"
Phys. Rev. B. 79, 033407 link


2008

Paper P. Scholz, S. Schwieger, B. Ashall, D. Zerulla, E. Runge.
“The Influence Of Wire Shape On Surface Plasmon Mode Distribution”
Appl. Phys. B. 93, 111 (Special Issue) (Sep 2008) link

Conference B. Ashall, D. Zerulla.
"Surface Plasmon Propagation Guiding and Polarisation Twisting" 
Near-Field Optics 10 (NFO10), Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Sep 2008) poster pdf

Patent D. Zerulla, S. Rehwald.
"Surface Plasmon Resonance Measurements"
WO/2008/028657 link

Conference B. Ashall, D. Zerulla, M. Berndt.
“Tailoring SPP Propagation Via Specific Symmetry Properties of Nanostructures”
72nd DPG Spring meeting, Berlin, Germany. (March 2008)


2007

IOP Online News D. Zerulla et. al.,
"Plasmonics Forges Ahead"
nanotechweb.org (Sep 2007) link

Highlighted Paper B. Ashall et al, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91 203109
featured in Japanese Nanoscience Archive "NanoUnion" link

Paper B. Ashall, M. Berndt, D. Zerulla
“Tailoring Surface Plasmon Polariton Propagation Via Specific Symmetry Properties of Nanostructures”
Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 203109 (Nov 2007) link

Paper S. Rehwald, M. Berndt, F. Katzenberg, S. Schwieger, E. Runge, K. Schierbaum, D. Zerulla
"Tunable nanowires: An additional degree of freedom in plasmonics"
Phys. Rev. B, 76, 085420 (2007) link

Conference B. Ashall, D. Zerulla.
“Tailoring Surface Plasmon Emission on Nanostructured Arrays”
Surface Plasmon Photonics 3 (SPP3), Dijon, France. (June 2007) poster pdf

Conference M. Galvin, G. Doyle, B. Ashall, F. O’Reilly, D. Zerulla
"A Selective Spectroscopic Method with unique Tuneability for the Investigation of the Conformational Changes in Proteins"
51st Annual Biophysical Society Conference, Baltimore, USA. (2007)

Conference D. Zerulla, B. Ashall, M. Berndt.
“Quasi Particles as Quantum Phenomena at Surfaces: An Ultrafast Study”
71st DPG Spring meeting, Regensburg, Germany (March 2007)

Conference D. Zerulla, B. Ashall, M. Berndt.
“Surface Plasmon Excited Nanolight Sources”
71st DPG Spring meeting, Regensburg, Germany. (March 2007)

Paper G. Doyle, B. Ashall, M. Galvin, M. Berndt, S. Crosbie, D. Zerulla.
“Mie Scattering And Surface Plasmon Based Spectroscopy For The Detection Of Nanoparticle-Protein Interaction”
Appl. Phys. A. 89, 351 (June 2007) link

Thesis M. Berndt
"Anregung von oberflächenplasmonen auf mesoskopischen strukturen"
Diploma (Master’s) thesis, UCD & Heinrich-Heine Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany. (2007)


2006

Paper G. Isfort, K. Schierbaum and D. Zerulla.
"Polarization dependence of surface plasmon polariton emission"
Phys. Rev. B 74, 033404 (2006) link

Conference G. Doyle, B. Ashall, M. Galvin, M. Berndt, S. Crosbie, D. Zerulla
“The Kinetic Study Of The Interaction Between Nanoparticles & Living Tissue By Means Of Surface Plasmon Enhanced Mie Scattering Spectroscopy”
Syngapore. (March 2006)

Conference M. Berndt, S. Rehwald, B. Ashall, G. Doyle, M. Galvin, F. Katzenberg, K. Schierbaum, D. Zerulla.
“Surface Plasmon Polariton Excitation on Gratings with Tunable Grating Constants”
70th DPG Spring Meeting, Dresden, Germany. (March 2006)

Thesis G. Doyle.
"Surface plasmon based investigations of the interactions between proteins and gold nanoparticles via time-dependent mie scattering spectroscopy"
Master’s Thesis, University College Dublin, (2006)

Thesis S. Rehwald.
"Oberflächenplasmonenresonanz an periodischen, mesoskopischen strukturen: Anwendungen für die optische spektroskopie"
Diploma (Master’s) Thesis, UCD & Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, (2006)

Paper G. Isfort, K. Schierbaum and D. Zerulla.
"Causality of surface plasmon polariton emission processes"
Phys. Rev. B 73, 033408 (2006) link