The Victorian Integrated Plasmonics Facility

A General Method for Direct Assembly of Single Nanocrystals

H Zhang, Y Liu, A Ashokan, C Gao, Y Dong, C Kinnear, N Kirkwood, S Zaman, F Maasoumi, TD James, A Widmer-Cooper, A Roberts, P Mulvaney

2022-07-01

Controlled nanocrystal assembly is a pre-requisite for incorporation of these materials into solid state devices. Many assembly me..

Direct Assembly of Vertically Oriented, Gold Nanorod Arrays

Heyou Zhang, Yawei Liu, Muhammad Faris Shahin Shahidan, Calum Kinnear, Fatemeh Maasoumi, Jasper Cadusch, Eser Metin Akinoglu, Timothy D James, Asaph Widmer-Cooper, Ann Roberts, Paul Mulvaney

2021-02-03

Although many nanoscale materials such as quantum dots and metallic nanocrystals exhibit size dependent optical properties, it has..

Direct assembly of large area nanoparticle arrays

H Zhang, J Cadusch, C Kinnear, T James, A Roberts, P Mulvaney

2018-08-28

A major goal of nanotechnology is the assembly of nanoscale building blocks into functional optical, electrical, or chemical devic..

Morphological and Device Evaluation of an Amphiphilic Block Copolymer for Organic Photovoltaic Applications

VD Mitchell, E Gann, S Huettner, CR Singh, J Subbiah, L Thomsen, CR McNeill, M Thelakkat, DJ Jones

2017-07-11

We report the morphological and photovoltaic evaluation of a novel fully conjugated donor/acceptor block copolymer system based on..

The synthesis and purification of amphiphilic conjugated donor-acceptor block copolymers

VD Mitchell, WWH Wong, M Thelakkat, DJ Jones

2017-01-01

Nanoscale domains of donor and acceptor materials are crucial for charge generation in organic photovoltaic devices. These domains..

Scanning Nanospin Ensemble Microscope for Nanoscale Magnetic and Thermal Imaging

JP Tetienne, A Lombard, DA Simpson, C Ritchie, J Lu, P Mulvaney, LCL Hollenberg

2016-01-13

Quantum sensors based on solid-state spins provide tremendous opportunities in a wide range of fields from basic physics and chemi..

Broadband chirality-coded meta-aperture for photon-spin resolving

L Du, SS Kou, E Balaur, JJ Cadusch, A Roberts, B Abbey, XC Yuan, D Tang, J Lin

2015-12-01

The behaviour of light transmitted through an individual subwavelength aperture becomes counterintuitive in the presence of surrou..

Micro-concave waveguide antenna for high photon extraction from nitrogen vacancy centers in nanodiamond

R Rajasekharan, G Kewes, A Djalalian-Assl, K Ganesan, S Tomljenovic-Hanic, JC McCallum, A Roberts, O Benson, S Prawer

2015-07-14

The negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy colour center (NV- center) in nanodiamond is an excellent single photon source due to its ..

Charge transfer in single chains of a donor-acceptor conjugated tri-block copolymer

EN Hooley, DJ Jones, NC Greenham, KP Ghiggino, TDM Bell

2015-06-18

The photophysics of a conjugated triblock copolymer comprising poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-co-bis-N,N′-(4-methylphenyl)-bis-N,N′-phen..

Optical ‘magnetic mirror’ metasurfaces using interference between Fabry-Pérot cavity resonances in coaxial apertures

R Rajasekharan, A Roberts

2015-05-28

Here we propose and computationally demonstrate a quasi-planar metasurface consisting of arrays of pairs of concentric coaxial ape..

Collective excitation of plasmonic hot-spots for enhanced hot charge carrier transfer in metal/semiconductor contacts

A Piot, SK Earl, C Ng, S Dligatch, A Roberts, TJ Davis, DE Gómez

2015-05-14

We show how a combination of near- and far-field coupling of the localised surface plasmon resonances in aluminium nanoparticles d..

Material effects on V-nanoantenna performance

SK Earl, DE Gómez, TD James, TJ Davis, A Roberts

2015-03-07

There is great interest in aluminum based plasmonic devices due to the relatively high plasma frequency of this material as well a..

A chiral plasmonic metasurface circular polarization filter

JJ Cadusch, TD James, A Djalalian-Assl, TJ Davis, A Roberts

2014-12-01

Here, we demonstrate a proof of principle circular polarization filter based on a far-field interference effect using an array of ..

Energy transfer in PPV-based conjugated polymers: A defocused widefield fluorescence microscopy study

EN Hooley, AJ Tilley, JM White, KP Ghiggino, TDM Bell

2014-04-21

Both pendant and main chain conjugated MEH-PPV based polymers have been studied at the level of single chains using confocal and w..

Coupling of a quantum emitter to the surface plasmons of a nanowire

M Aramesh, A Djalalian-Assl, J Cervenka, A Roberts, K Ostrikov, S Prawer

2014-02-10

A finite element method is applied to study the coupling of a single photon emitter in nanodiamond to surface plasmons of a silver..

Waveguide coupled MSM photodiode for surface plasmon polariton detection

E Panchenko, TD James, A Roberts

2014-02-10

The requirement of in-plane detection is crucial for large scale plasmonic technology. Metal-semiconductor-metal photodiodes can b..

Optical investigation of the J-pole and Vee antenna families

TD James, TJ Davis, A Roberts

2014-01-27

The J-pole and Vee RF antenna design families are investigated for their suitability as optical antennas. The modal and spectral p..

Filling schemes at submicron scale: Development of submicron sized plasmonic colour filters

R Rajasekharan, E Balaur, A Minovich, S Collins, TD James, A Djalalian-Assl, K Ganesan, S Tomljenovic-Hanic, S Kandasamy, E Skafidas, DN Neshev, P Mulvaney, A Roberts, S Prawer

2014-01-01

The pixel size imposes a fundamental limit on the amount of information that can be displayed or recorded on a sensor. Thus, there..

Indium tin oxide film characterization using the classical Hall Effect

LHW van Beveren, E Panchenko, N Anachi, L Hyde, D Smith, TD JAMES, A Roberts, JC McCallum

2014-01-01

We have used the classical Hall Effect to electrically characterize indium tin oxide (ITO) films grown by two different techniques..

Polarization manipulation with subwavelength nanoapertures

JJ Cadusch, TD James, A Djalalian-Assl, TJ Davis, A Roberts

2014-01-01

Manipulation of polarization states is an important feature of many applications including in telecommunication, remote sensing an..

Polarization effect and emission control in asymmetric cross-shaped slot antennas surrounded with periodic corrugations

A Djalalian-Assl, J Cadusch, TD James, TJ Davis, A Roberts

2013-12-01

We discuss progress in the development of asymmetric cross-shaped plasmonic antennas based on resonant nanoscale apertures surroun..

A localized surface plasmon resonance-based optical fiber sensor with sub-wavelength apertures

H Nguyen, F Sidiroglou, SF Collins, TJ Davis, A Roberts, GW Baxter

2013-11-04

An optical fiber refractive index sensor based on localized surface plasmon (LSP) resonances within resonant subwavelength apertur..

The dark side of plasmonics

DE Gómez, ZQ Teo, M Altissimo, TJ Davis, S Earl, A Roberts

2013-08-14

Plasmonic dark modes are pure near-field modes that can arise from the plasmon hybridization in a set of interacting nanoparticles..

The plasmonic J-pole antenna

TD James, ZQ Teo, DE Gómez, TJ Davis, A Roberts

2013-01-21

The plasmonic J-pole antenna is the nanoscale version of a radio frequency design, consisting of a half wavelength arm connected t..