Nanophotonics Theory
Prof. Dr. Javier Garcia de Abajo
- Activities:
Our group is focused on the study of the optical response of nanostructured materials. We develop theory to explain and unveil new physical phenomena associated with the interaction of light with such materials. In particular, we investigate plasmons in nanoparticles and nanostructures, as well as the interaction of these plasmons with molecules. We provide theory to interpret and extend electron-microscope-based spectroscopy. We are also interested in exploring exotic quantum and classical phenomena involving the optical response of nanostructures, such as quantum vacuum friction, collective optical modes in graphene, and molecular plasmons.
Expertise in many-body and condensed-matter theory, optical response at the nanoscale both from first-principles and based upon classical electromagnetism, interaction of fast-electrons/ions with nanostructures. Powerful computational tools for solving Maxwell’s equations (boundary-element method, multiple scattering, etc.), Schrödinger’s equation, and linear-response problems (e.g., RPA expansions for many different physical systems).
- Research Topics:
- Nanoplasmonics
- Graphene Plasmonics
- Electron Microscope Spectroscopies
- Quantum Nanophotonics
- Collaborations:
- Luis Liz-Marzán, Biomagune, San Sebastian, Spain
- Ramón Alvarez-Puebla, URV, Tarragona, Spain
- Peter Nordlander, Naomi Halas, Rice University, TX, USA
- Zheyu Fang, Beijing University, China
- Niek Van Hulst, Romain Quidant, Frank Koppens, Darrick Chang, ICFO, Castelldefels, Spain
- Francisco Meseguer, CSIC-UPV, Valencia, Spain
- Na Liu, MPI, Stuttgart, Germany
- Harry Atwater, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
- Sunshine Chen, Nacional University of Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan
- Christian Colliex, Mathieu Kociak, Odile Stephan, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
- Albert Polman, AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Archie Howie, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
- Naoki Yamamoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
- Nikolay Zheludev, ORC, University of Southampton, UK
- Nanophotonics:
- Electron Microscopy:
- Links:
- Graphene @ ICFO
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Nanophotonics Theory
Prof. Dr. Javier Garcia de Abajo
- Group Leader
- Prof. Dr. Javier Garcia de Abajo
- Postdoctoral Researchers
- Dr. Kamran Akbari
- Dr. Shahaf Asban
- Dr. Fadil Iyikanat
- Dr. Andrea Konecna
- Dr. Vahagn Mkhitaryan
- Dr. Nicolau Molina
- Dr. Deng Pan
- Dr. Renwen Yu
- PhD Students
- Valerio Di Giulio
- Eduardo Dias
- Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri
- Former Group Members
- Zakaria Abd El-Fattah, Postdoctoral researcher
- Hani Awwad, PhD student
- Joel Douglas Cox, Postdoctoral researcher
- Christin David, PhD student
- Juan Manuel Plaza, PhD student
- Andrea Marini, Postdoctoral researcher
- José Ramón Martínez, PhD student
- Lijun Meng, PhD student
- Vahagn Mkhitaryan, PhD student
- Iván Silveiro, PhD student
- Jacob Swain, PhD student
- George Vasileios Mouloudakis, PhD student
- Renwen Yu, PhD student
Nanophotonics Theory
Prof. Dr. Javier Garcia de Abajo
- Regular Papers
- Back to normal: an old physics route to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission in indoor spaces ACS Nano [ONline DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c04596] (2020)
- Nanoscale nonlinear spectroscopy with electron beams ACS Photonics 7, 1290-1296 (2020)
- Electron-beam spectroscopy for nanophotonics Nature Mater. 18, 1158-1171 (2019)
- Plasmonics in atomically thin crystalline silver films ACS Nano 13, 7771-7779 (2019)
- Tracking ultrafast hot-electron diffusion in space and time by ultrafast thermomodulation microscopy Sci. Adv. 5, eaav8965 (2019)
- Imaging the Renner–Teller effect using laser-induced electron diffraction P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 116, 8173-8177 (2019)
- Tunable plasmons in ultrathin metal films Nature Photon. 13, 328–333 (2019)
- Nonlinear atom-plasmon interactions enabled by nanostructured graphene Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 257403 (2018)
- Unveiling and imaging degenerate states in plasmonic nanoparticles with nanometer resolution ACS Nano 12, 8436-8446 (2018)
- Efficient electrical detection of mid-infrared graphene plasmons at room temperature Nature Mater. 17, 986-992 (2018)
- Photothermal engineering of graphene plasmons Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 057404 (2018)
- Efficient orbital angular momentum transfer between plasmons and free electrons Phys. Rev. B 98, 045424 (2018)
- Attosecond coherent control of free-electron wave functions using semi-infinite light fields Nature Commun. 9, 2694 (2018)
- Transient nonlinear plasmonics in nanostructured graphene Optica 5, 429-433 (2018) Cover Page
- Continuous-wave multiphoton photoemission from plasmonic nanostars Commun Phys 1, 13 (2018)
- Enhancement of nonlinear optical phenomena by localized resonances ACS Photonics 5, 1521-1527 (2018)
- Nanomaterial-based plasmon-enhanced infrared spectroscopy Adv. Mater. 30, 1704896 (2018)
- meV resolution in laser-assisted energy-filtered transmission electron microscopy ACS Photonics 5, 759-764 (2018)
- Ultrafast nonlinear optical response of Dirac fermions in graphene Nature Commun. 9, 1018 (2018)
- Enhanced graphene nonlinear response through geometrical plasmon focusing Appl. Phys. Lett. 112, 061107 (2018)
- Analytical modeling of graphene plasmons ACS Photonics 4, 3106-3114 (2017)
- Nonlocal plasmonic response of doped and optically pumped graphene, MoS2, and black phosphorus Phys. Rev. B 96, 205430 (2017)
- Electron refraction at lateral atomic interfaces J. Appl. Phys. 122, 195306 (2017)
- Topologically protected Dirac plasmons in a graphene superlattice Nature Commun. 8, 1243 (2017)
- Strong plasmon-phonon splitting and hybridization in 2D materials revealed through a self-energy approach ACS Photonics 4, 2908-2915 (2017)
- Plasmon generation through electron tunneling in graphene ACS Photon. 4, 2367-2375 (2017)
- Plasmonics simulations including nonlocal effects using a boundary element method approach Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 31, 1740007 (2017)
- Intrinsic plasmon-phonon interactions in highly-doped graphene: A near-field imaging study Nano Lett. 17, 5908-5913 (2017)
- Plasmonic nano-oven by concatenation of multishell photothermal enhancement ACS Nano 11, 7915-7924 (2017)
- Analytical description of the nonlinear plasmonic response in nanographene Phys. Rev. B 96, 045442 (2017)
- How to identify plasmons from the optical response of nanostructures ACS Nano 11, 7321-7335 (2017)
- Hybrid plasmonic nanoresonators as efficient solar heat shields Nano Energy 37, 118-125 (2017)
- Double-layer graphene for enhanced tunable infrared plasmonics Light Sci. Appl. 6, e16277 (2017)
- Lateral Casimir force on a rotating particle near a planar surface Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 133605 (2017)
- Ultrafast radiative heat transfer Nature Commun. 8, 2 (2017)
- Plasmon-assisted high-harmonic generation in graphene Nature Commun. 8, 14380 (2017)
- Theory of graphene saturable absorption Phys. Rev. B 95, 125408 (2017)
- Optimization of nanoparticle-based SERS substrates through large-scale realistic simulations ACS Photonics 4, 329-337 (2017)
- Universal analytical modeling of plasmonic nanoparticles Chem. Soc. Rev. 46, 6710-6724 (2017)
- Polaritons in van der Waals materials Science 354, aag1992 (2016)
- Self-organization of frozen light in near-zero-index media with cubic nonlinearity Sci. Rep. 6, 20088 (2016)
- Imaging and controlling plasmonic interference fields at buried interfaces Nature Commun. 7, 13156 (2016)
- Femtosecond plasmon and photon wave packets excited by a high-energy electron on a metal or dielectric surface Phys. Rev. B 94, 155412 (2016)
- Molecular plasmon–phonon coupling Nano Lett. 16, 6390-6395 (2016)
- Active modulation of visible light with graphene-loaded ultrathin metal plasmonic antennas Sci. Rep. 6, 32144 (2016)
- Nonlinear plasmonic sensing with nanographene Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 123904 (2016)
- Ultrasensitive multiplex optical quantification of bacteria in large samples of biofluids Sci. Rep. 6, 29014 (2016)
- Plasmons in doped finite carbon nanotubes and their interactions with fast electrons and quantum emitters Phys. Rev. B 94, 075447 (2016)
- Electrical detection of single graphene plasmons ACS Nano 10, 8045-8053 (2016)
- Smith-Purcell radiation emission in aperiodic arrays Phys. Rev. B 94, 035418 (2016)
- Electron diffraction by plasmon waves Phys. Rev. B 94, 041404(R) (2016)
- Hot-electron dynamics and thermalization in small metallic nanoparticles ACS Photonics 3, 1637-1646 (2016)
- Graphene-based active random metamaterials for cavity-free lasing Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 217401 (2016) Cover Page
- Ultrafast and broadband tuning of resonant optical nanostructures using phase-change materials Adv. Opt. Mater. 4, 1060-1066 (2016)
- Structural coloring of glass using dewetted nanoparticles and ultrathin films of metals ACS Photonics 3, 1149 (2016) Cover Page
- Quantum effects in the nonlinear response of graphene plasmons ACS Nano 10, 1995-2003 (2016)
- Propagation and localization of quantum dot emission along a gap-plasmonic transmission line Opt. Express 23, 29296-29320 (2015)
- Ultraefficient coupling of a quantum emitter to the tunable guided plasmons of a carbon nanotubes Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 173601 (2015)
- Ultimate limit of light extinction by nanophotonic structures Nano Lett. 15, 7633-7638 (2015)
- Phonon excitation by electron beams in nanographenes Phys. Rev. B 92, 115449 (2015)
- Pronounced linewidth narrowing of an aluminum nanoparticle plasmon resonance by interaction with an aluminum metallic film Nano Lett. 15, 6946-6951 (2015)
- Plasmon–phonon interactions in topological insulator microrings Adv. Opt. Mater. 3, 1257-1263 (2015)
- Second-order quantum nonlinear optical processes in single graphene nanostructures and arrays New J. Phys. 17, 083031 (2015)
- Amplification of the evanescent field of free electrons ACS Photonics 2, 1236-1240 (2015)
- Molecular plasmonics Nano Lett. 15, 6208-6214 (2015)
- Plasmon wave function of graphene nanoribbons New J. Phys. 17, 083013 (2015)
- Mid-infrared plasmonic biosensing with graphene Science 349, 165-168 (2015)
- Controlled living nanowire growth: Precise control over the morphology and optical properties of AgAuAg bimetallic nanowires Nano Lett. 15, 5427-5437 (2015)
- Molecular sensing with tunable graphene plasmons ACS Photonics 2, 876-882 (2015)
- Interference of surface plasmons and Smith-Purcell emission probed by angle-resolved cathodoluminescence spectroscopy Phys. Rev. B 91, 125144 (2015)
- Resonant visible light modulation with graphene ACS Photonics 2, 550-558 (2015)
- Plasmon-enhanced nonlinear wave mixing in nanostructured graphene ACS Photonics 2, 306-312 (2015) Cover page
- Electrical control of optical emitter relaxation pathways enabled by graphene Nature Phys. 11, 281-287 (2015)
- Quantum nonlocal effects in individual and interacting graphene nanoribbons Light-Sci. Appl. 4, e241 (2015)
- Unveiling nanometer scale extinction and scattering phenomena through combined electron energy loss spectroscopy and cathodoluminescence measurements Nano Lett. 15 1229-1237 (2015)
- Plasmonics in atomically thin materials Faraday Discuss. 178, 87-107 (2015)
- Electrically tunable nonlinear plasmonics in graphene nanoislands Nature Commun. 5, 5725 (2014)
- Graphene optical-to-thermal converter Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 211102 (2014)
- Phonon-mediated mid-infrared photoresponse of graphene Nano Lett. 14, 6374–6381 (2014)
- Surface plasmon dependence on the electron density profile at metal surfaces ACS Nano 8, 9558-9566 (2014)
- Dichroism in the interaction between vortex electron beams, plasmons, and molecules Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 066102 (2014)
- Toward ultimate nanoplasmonics modeling ACS Nano 8, 7559-7570 (2014)
- SERS platforms of plasmonic hydrophobic surfaces for analyte concentration: Hierarchically assembled gold nanorods on anodized aluminum Part. Part. Syst. Charact. 31, 1134-1140 (2014)
- Chemical speciation of heavy metals by surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy: identification and quantification of inorganic- and methyl-mercury in water Nanoscale 6, 8368-8375 (2014)
- Extraordinary absorption of sound in porous lamella-crystals Sci. Rep. 4, 4674 (2014)
- Tunable plasmons in atomically thin gold nanodisks Nature Commun. 5, 3548 (2014)
- Near-field nanoimprinting using colloidal monolayers Opt. Express 22, 8226-8233 (2014)
- Plasmons in inhomogeneously doped neutral and charged graphene nanodisks Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 063504 (2014)
- 3D plasmonic chiral colloids Nanoscale 6, 2077-2081 (2014)
- Deterministic optical-near-field-assisted positioning of nitrogen-vacancy centers Nano Lett. 14, 1520-1525 (2014)
- Extraordinary absorption of decorated undoped graphene Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 077401 (2014)
- Graphene plasmonics: Challenges and opportunities ACS Photonics 1, 135-152 (2014)
- Active tunable absorption enhancement with graphene nanodisk arrays Nano Lett. 14, 299-304 (2014)
- Efficient modal-expansion discrete-dipole approximation: Application to the simulation of optical extinction and electron energy-loss spectroscopies Phys. Rev. B 88, 245439 (2013)
- Magnetic and electric response of single subwavelength holes N. Rotenberg, T. L. Krijger, B. le Feber, M. Spasenović, F. J. García de Abajo
- Single-photon nonlinear optics with graphene plasmons Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 247401 (2013) Highlighted in Nature Photon.
- Controlled interaction of surface quantum-well electronic states Nano Lett. 13, 6130–6135 (2013)
- Strong plasmon reflection at nanometer-size gaps in monolayer graphene on SiC Nano Lett. 13, 6210-6215 (2013)
- Optical generation of intense ultrashort magnetic pulses at the nanoscale New J. Phys. 15, 113035 (2013)
- Multiple excitation of confined graphene plasmons by single free electrons ACS Nano 7, 11409-11419 (2013)
- Fast optical modulation of the fluorescence from a single nitrogen–vacancy centre Nature Phys. 9, 785-789 (2013)
- The magnetic response of graphene split-ring metamaterials Light-Sci. Appl. 2, e78 (2013)
- Plasmon electron energy-gain spectroscopy New J. Phys. 15, 103021 (2013)
Nanophotonics Theory
Prof. Dr. Javier Garcia de Abajo
- 2020-06-22 Scientists support the use of ultraviolet light to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission indoors This solution meets the requirements of fast, scalable, and affordable implementation to fulfill the needs of disinfecting working spaces, such as offices, schools, healthcare facilities, and public transportation, to name a few.
- 2020-06-05 Nanoscale Nonlinear Spectroscopy on the cover of ACS Photonics A team of ICFO and University of Göttingen researchers theoretically demonstrates that ultrafast electron microscopy could radically improve nanoscale nonlinear spectrocospy.
- 2020-06-03 Álvaro Rodríguez awarded SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship SPIE offers outstanding SPIE student members scholarships based on their potential contribution to optics and photonics
- 2020-02-17 Congratulations to New ICFO PhD graduate Dr. Sandra de Vega graduated with a thesis entitled “Plasmon-Electron Interactions in Low Dimensional Materials”
- 2020-01-27 Graphene, Quantum, and the Brain: Put them together and what do you get? Deep Tech EU at MWC Barcelona The most ambitious EU research initiatives showcase innovations at Deep Tech EU in MWC Barcelona.
- 2019-11-20 Highly Cited Researchers Three ICFO Group Leaders included in Clarivate Analytics 2019 compilation of Highly Cited Researchers
- 2019-07-23 Near-infrared plasmons with atomically thin crystalline silver films An international team of researchers demonstrates the existence of narrow plasmons in the near-infrared regime by using atomically-thin silver films of crystalline quality.
- 2019-07-11 Congratulations to New ICFO PhD graduate Dr. Renwen Yu graduated with a thesis entitled “Toward Next-Generation Nanophotonic Devices”
- 2019-06-14 The Quantum Communications Infrastructure Declaration The European Commission signs the declaration with member states.
- 2019-05-11 Watching nanoscale heat transport ICFO researchers use ultrafast thermo-modulation microscopy to understand how heat diffusion occurs in solids on ultrashort timescales.
- 2019-04-08 Observing a molecule stretch and bend in real-time An international study, led by ICFO, has observed the bending and stretching of a triatomic molecule with combined attosecond and picometre resolution.
- 2019-03-26 Controlling plasmons in ultrathin metal films A way to control the plasmon behavior in ultra thin metal films.
- 2019-01-07 Research into the Science of Light Prize Javier Garcia de Abajo awarded major prize from the QEOD division of the EPS
- 2018-12-12 Congratulations to New ICFO PhD graduate Dr. Lijun Meng graduated with a thesis on “Thermal and optical-gain effects in nanophotonics with applications to sensing and perfect absorption”
- 2018-12-10 Congratulations to New ICFO PhD graduate Dr. Jose Ramón Martinez graduated with a thesis in “Classical and Quantum Aspects of the Optical Response at the Nanoscale”.
- 2018-08-28 Graphene as an infrared detector An ICFO and Yale study uses graphene to efficiently detect mid-infrared light at room temperature and convert it into electricity.
- 2018-04-23 Graphene hot electrons and nonlinear plasmonics ICFO researchers find the mechanism that explains how incoherent optical nonlinearities arise in graphene nanostructures.
- 2018-04-06 The European Research Council awards ICFO three new Advanced Grants ICFO is the top recipient in Spain of ERC grants in this round
- 2018-03-12 Graphene in petahertz lightwave electronics ICFO researchers study the instantaneous response of Dirac carriers in graphene for petahertz electronics.
- 2017-11-06 Graphene Superlattices for Plasmonic Topological Orders An ICFO study, in collaboration with Wuhan University, proposes a new way to realize topologically protected graphene plasmons.
- 2017-10-11 Visible graphene plasmons from electrons ICFO researchers propose a method to generate graphene visible plasmons from electron tunnelling.
- 2017-02-27 Ultrafast radiative heat transfer Radiative heat transfer makes its debut from a negligible to a dominant effect in graphene.
- 2016-08-17 ACS Photonics July Cover An ICFO and Corning study on color customization of transparent silica surfaces makes it to the cover of ACS Photonics.
- 2016-06-01 ICFO on the cover of Physical Review Letters Graphene-Based Active Random Metamaterials for Cavity-Free Lasing
- 2016-05-25 Congratulations to New ICFO PhD graduate Dr. Ivan Silveiro Flores graduated with a thesis in Plasmonic Response of Graphene Nanostructures.
- 2016-05-25 PhD Thesis Defense
IVAN SILVEIRO \'Plasmonic Response of Graphene Nanostructures\' IVAN SILVEIRO
Nanophotonics Theory
ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences - 2015-10-20 2014 Hottest Research Three ICFO studies among most cited and influential core papers of 2014 in Graphene Plasmonics in Thomson Reuters citation-based list
- 2015-09-10 Highly Cited Researchers Maciej Lewenstein and Javier Garcia de Abajo included in Thomas Reuters’ 2015 compilation of most influential authors
- 2015-07-10 ICFO in Science ICFO and EPFL develop a tunable, highly sensitive graphene-based infrared sensor
- 2015-03-03 Graphene boosts Nonlinear Wave Mixing Efficiencies Plasmon-Enhanced Nonlinear Wave Mixing in Graphene makes it to the cover of ACS Photonics.
- 2015-01-20 Graphene enables all-electrical control of energy flow from light emitters First signatures of graphene plasmons at telecommunications wavelength revealed
- 2015-01-02 ACS Photonics announces most read in 2014 “Graphene Plasmonics: Challenges and Opportunities” review by Javier Garcia de Abajo
- 2014-12-12 Graphene plasmons vs noble metal nanoparticles Graphene nanoislands shown to host record-high levels of nonlinear response when electrically charged.
- 2014-10-13 Congratulations to New ICFO PhD graduate Dr. Christin David graduated with a thesis in ‘Nonlocal and Collective Phenomena in the Plasmons of Metallic Nanostructures’
- 2014-10-02 Congratulations to New ICFO PhD graduate Dr. Ana Asenjo graduated from Universidad Complutense de Madrid with a thesis in ‘Plasmon, light, and electron beam interactions at the nanoscale’
- 2014-03-27 Tunning the frequencies of plasmons “Tunable plasmons in atomically thin gold nanodisks” in Nature Communications
- 2014-02-19 Most cited 2011 NanoLetters paper Graphene Plasmonics: A Platform for Strong Light-Matter Interactions
- 2013-12-09 ICFO in the December issue of Nature Physics ICFO’s Plasmon nano-optics group appears twice in the same volume of Nature Physics
- 2013-10-14 An optical switch based on a single nanodiamond Collaboration between ICFO’s Nanophotonic Theory and Plasmon Nano-optics groups in Nature Physics.
- 2013-09-25 ICONS SEMINAR
JAVIER GARCÍA DE ABAJO \'Graphene plasmonics: Challenges and Opportunities\'
JAVIER GARCÍA DE ABAJO
Nanophotonics theory group
ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences - 2013-06-03 New Group Leader ICFO is happy to announce the arrival of ICREA Prof. Javier Garcia de Abajo who will lead the Nanophotonics Theory group
- 2012-01-30 New Advances in Graphene A study by researchers at Southampton, FQRI-CSIC, and ICFO suggests doped graphene could be a perfect light absorber.
- 2009-10-06 ICFO in Optics Express A paper on optical antennas gets the cover video in the Optics Express homepage.
- 2007-12-18 NanoLight kick-off meeting The new Consolider program NanoLight.es, Light control on the nanoscale, has started with a coordination meeting of all participant group leaders at ICFO.
- 2007-02-23 F. JAVIER GARCÍA DE ABAJO \'Plasmon resonances in metallic nanoparticles\'
F. JAVIER GARCÍA DE ABAJO
Instituto de Óptica
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Madrid
SPAIN
