Molecules placed close to an optical mode in terms of space and energy can form new hybrid states, which consist of half-matter and half-light quasi-particles. This opens a new route to control the functions of molecules without changing their chemical structures.
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Nanostructured organic molecules can support collective oscillation of electrons or excitons at the surface. The combination of nanostructuring techniques and unprecedented optical properties of organic materials holds great potential as an intriguing research area.
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S. Chen, E. S. H. Kang, M. Shiran Chaharsoughi, V. Stanishev, P. Kühne, H. Sun, C. Wang, M. Fahlman, S. Fabiano, V. Darakchieva, M. P. Jonsson, Conductive polymer nanoantennas for dynamic organic plasmonics. Nat. Nanotechnol. 15, 35–40 (2020).
E. S. H. Kang, H. Ekinge, M. P. Jonsson, Plasmonic Fanoholes: on the gradual transition from suppressed to enhanced optical transmission through nanohole arrays in metal films of increasing film thickness. Opt. Mater. Express. 9, 1404–1415 (2019).
E. S. H. Kang, M. Shiran Chaharsoughi, S. Rossi, M. P. Jonsson, Hybrid plasmonic metasurfaces. J. Appl. Phys. 126, 140901 (2019).
Device physics is essential to build desired device structures and study various fundamental physics therein. Organic field-effect transistors can provide a direct determination of charge carrier mobility and transport mechanisms in organic solids at different charge concentrations controlled by electrical gating.
E. S. H. Kang, H. Zhang, W. Donner, H. von Seggern, Electrical and Structural Origin of Self-Healing Phenomena in Pentacene Thin Films. Adv. Mater. 29, 1604833 (2017).
E. S. H. Kang, E. Kim, Multi-barrier field-emission behavior in PBTTT thin films at low temperatures. Sci. Rep. 5, 8396 (2015).