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Electrochemistry can be applied to extract fundamental information about charge transfer processes in a large number of situations. However, at ultrasmall scales, when the system of interest contains mesoscopic collections of matter, direct electrical measurements become difficult, and there is ample reason to couple electron transfer reactions to luminescence. This chapter summarizes a new class of spectroelectrochemical experiments in which a very small numbers of redox-active molecules interact with nanophotonic structures so that the molecular luminescence is strongly coupled to the electrochemical event in zero-dimensional, 0-D, and one-dimensional, 1-D, architectures. In this chapter, we will describe various nanophotonic and nanoelectronic structures, especially the zero-mode waveguide, ZMW, that are being coupled to mesoscopic samples of redox-active molecules in order to carry out ultrasensitive measurements on the nanoscale.
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Xu, W., Zaino, L.P., Bohn, P.W. (2017). Electrochemically Modulated Luminescence in Nanophotonic Structures. In: Miomandre, F., Audebert, P. (eds) Luminescence in Electrochemistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49137-0_3
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