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Abstract
Metallic nanoparticles can be considered as classical oscillators at the nanoscale that act as antennas, converting electromagnetic waves at optical frequencies into localized fields. As such, they provide an effective route to couple photons in and out of nanoscale volumes and manipulate them. The strong coupling of a metallic optical nanoresonator to light is driven by collective oscillations of the conduction electrons in the metal - the so-called localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPR). The excitation of surface plasmons is accompanied by resonantly enhanced polarizabilities, which leads to increased scattering and absorption, and strongly enhanced optical near-fields, known as hot-spots, confined to the nanoparticle’s metallic surface.
Applications of surface plasmon resonances are widespread, nurtured by nanotechnology, and approaching a level of maturity that gives them a prominent position to contribute to some of today’s most important challenges: energy harvesting, cancer treatment, disease diagnostics, DNA sequencing, and optical computing.
A detailed control over the basic resonance characteristics - the resonance frequency, line width and line shape - forms the foundation for a successful development of plasmonics based technologies. The surface plasmon resonance frequency can be tuned to application specifications by varying the geometry and size of the nanostructure. This frequency tunability, in unison with the quest for extreme electromagnetic field enhancements, has traditionally drawn the better part of research attention. Controlling the line width and line shape is somewhat less trivial compared to frequency tuning, and received much less attention in plasmonic research. This issue has been addressed in the presented work.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
High school: Graduated from Kolmogorov Special Mathematical School in Moscow in 1969 with the greatest distinction
University: M.Sc. in Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1975, cum laude,
Ranking: the first among 450 M.Sc graduates in Physics
Ph.D in Physics (1978), “Habilitation” (1985), Lomonosov Moscow State University
Position
1978‑1991 Research Physicist, Assistant Professor, Head of the Laboratory of High Temperature
Superconductivity, Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University
1986-1991 Visiting Professor at Toronto University (Canada)
TH Darmstadt, Marburg University, RWTH Aachen (Germany ), CEA, Grenoble (France)
1991-… Full Professor at the KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
1999-2004 Chairman of the ESF Programme “Vortex Matter in Superconductors-VORTEX“
2004-2012 Co-chairman of the Global Research Networking Programme
(EU-Japan-USA) “Nanoscience and Engineering in Superconductivity-NES”
2007-2012 Chairman of the ESF-NES Programme (60 teams from 15 European countries)
2005-… Director of INPAC-Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry at the KU Leuven
2012-... Chairman of the EU COST Action NanoSC (74 teams from 20 countries)
Research
Over 850 publications in international journals with referee system - more than 11000 citations
Research fields: Superconducting, magnetic and hybrid nanostructures, vortex matter in
superconductors, pulsed magnetic fields, nanoplasmonics, metamaterials
Invited speaker at 106 international conferences and workshops, founder of the new series
of International Conferences “Vortex Matter in Nanostructured Superconductors”
Member of an international advisory committee of 39 International Conferences
Promoter/Co-promoter of 50 PhD theses (12 at Moscow State and 38 at the KU Leuven)
Leader of research team with currently 10 Ph.D. students and 8 Post-Doctoral fellows
Honors
Laureate of the USSR State Prize for Young Researchers, 1986
Laureate of the USSR Ministry of High Education Scientific Prize, 1988
ISI Thomson Scientific Award “Top Cited Paper in Flanders”, 2000
Laureate of the Belgian FWO Dr. A.De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart Prize for Exact Sciences, 2005
Finalist for the EU Descartes Research Prize, 2006; Methusalem Research Award, 2009
The American Physical Society Fellow, since 2007
Functions
Chairman of the Section "Low Temperature Physics" of the ESF, 1992 ‑ 1998
Co-Editor of “Europhysics Letters”, 1998 – 2003; “Superlattices and Microstructures”, 2003- 2007;
Co-editor of “Superconductor Science and Technology”, 2007-2009
Editor of “Physica C”, 2007-…; "Advances in Condensed Matter Physics", 2010-...
Books
V.V. Moshchalkov, R. Wordenweber and W. Lang "Nanoscience and Engineering in
Superconductivity", Springer, 2010
V.V. Moshchalkov and J. Fritzsche "Nanostructured Superconductors", World Scientific, 2011
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