Optically induced hyperthermia is an actively developing approach to treating cancer. All-dielectric nanoparticles have established themselves in different biomedical applications, including optical heating and nanothermometry. However, this type of nanoparticles (NPs) do not provide sufficient heating due to the necessity for a narrow size distribution. Thus, size-separation is required. Other method of negating disadvantages of all-dielectric NPs is incorporating plasmonic nanoparticles to create hybrid nanostructure, which would be less sensitive to size distribution, making it great nanoheater and nanothermometer. In this work, we propose a simple way of fabricating hybrid silicon-gold (Si-Au) NPs. We compare hybrid nanoparticles with pristine monodisperse Si NPs. In addition, we perform optical heating and simultaneous nanothermometry inside and outside living B16-F10 melanoma cells. Results reveal, that the hybrid NPs are more efficient in biological environments, since inhomogeneous medium can make it difficult to fulfill the critical coupling conditions.
In this work, we investigate silicon nanocavities to increase brightness and control directivity pattern in the near-IR wavelength range. Designed nanocavities consist of the silicon nanocylinder with Mie magnetic dipole resonance. Theoretically we predict that the Purcell factor can be enhanced by up to three orders of magnitude and consider directivity patterns. We use electron lithography and laser annealing methods to fabricate nanostructures. Experimentally, photoluminescence spectra are measured and demonstrated. We believe that results of this work can find its application in optical telecommunication systems.
Accurate thermal monitoring is essential tool for photothermal therapy or for application light-responsive drug delivery platforms, because overheating of living cells is related with unwanted side effects in surrounding tissues. In this work, we investigated a multifunctional polymer capsule embedded with nitrogen vacancies (NV) centers as nanothermometers and gold (Au) nanoparticles (NPs) as heating agents to perform of laser-induced release of bioactive compounds from the carriers with a simultaneous temperature measurements inside living cells.
In this work, we numerically investigate a dielectric nanocavity composed of gallium phosphide nanocylinders. Our results demonstrate that proposed structures allow to increase the emission rate into zero phonon line of NV-center by a factor of 10. We compare properties of cavities made of crystalline silicon and gallium phosphide. Obtained parameters of the nanocavity are suitable for nanodiamonds with NV or SiV color centers and adopted for the existing lithography methods. We believe the proposed system is perspective for creation of a quantum nanophotonic chip for application in quantum telecommunication and quantum computing.
In this work we propose a simple one-step method for creation of hybrid Au/Si micro- and nanostructures with strong nonlinear response. We demonstrate that such structures depending on laser structuring parameters can produce strong enhancement of second harmonic signal compared to the initial Au/Si films or/and broadband white-light photoluminescence in the visible optical range. To explain this dependence, the studies of the fabricated structures were carried out by the Raman spectroscopy demonstrating strong correlation between phase composition of the structures and their nonlinear properties. We believe that proposed structures can be used as efficient nonlinear souses for different applications in bioimaging and nanospectroscopy.
Ensembles of nitrogen-vacancy color centers in diamond hold promise for ultra-precise magnetometery, competing with superconducting quantum interference device detectors. Sensor and metrology applications for situations involving high sensitivity require efficient manipulation of the nitrogen-vacancy color centers electronic spins within large volume. Thus, the design of microwave antennas providing a uniform and strong microwave magnetic field over a relatively large volume is on a high demand. In this paper we report different antenna designs based on low loss high permittivity dielectric materials for coherent manipulation of a large ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy color centers in diamond. The operational principle of the proposed antennas is based on excitation of transverse electric (TE) or hybrid electromagnetic (HEM) modes of dielectric resonators. The first antenna design is based on TE01 mode excited inside the resonator made on a ceramic with permittivity of 80. The uniformity of the microwave magnetic field generated by the antenna was verified by measurement of the optically detected magnetic resonance and Rabi frequency in a high-density ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy color centers placed in the center bore of the antenna. Rabi frequency of 10 MHz in a volume of 7 cubic millimeters with a standard deviation of less than 1% at 5 W pump power has been measured at the room temperature. This is enough to coherently excite all color centers in commercially available diamond plates at room temperature. The second antenna design is based on HEM11δ mode excited in the ceramic resonator characterized by the permittivity of 235. The numerical simulations predict the Rabi frequency value of 34.85 MHz in a volume of 6 cubic millimeters with a standard deviation of less than 5% at 5 W pump power. The obtained result paves the way to improve the sensitivity of cutting-edge nitrogen-vacancy color centers based magnetometers by several orders of magnitude, practically reaching superconducting quantum interference device detectors level of sensitivity.
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