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Optical detection and spectroscopy of single gold nanoparticles using the spatial-modulation spectroscopy technique is described, focusing on the connection between the nanoparticle and environment parameters with the measured linear optical extinction spectrum. Characterisation of the size, shape and orientation on the substrate of a nanoparticle through quantitative determination of its optical extinction cross-section spectrum is illustrated in the case of gold nanospheres and nanorods. Extension of this technique to ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy of a single gold nanoparticle is also discussed.
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Natalia Del Fatti obtained her Electronic Engineering master degree from Politecnico di Milano (1996), and her Ph.D. in Physics from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (1999). She was appointed assistant professor at the University of Bordeaux where she worked on ultrafast spectroscopy of metal nanoparticles and developed a novel research axis on single nano-object spectroscopy. Since 2006 she is professor at the University of Lyon, where she co-founded the FemtoNanoOptics group, specialized in optical investigation of nanomaterials. Her current research interests include non-linear optics, ultrafast lasers and nanophysics. She is member of Institut Universitaire de France (IUF).
Dimitris Christofilos obtained his degree in Physics in 1990 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece and subsequently his masters degree in Electronics&Radio-electrology and his Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1997 from the same University. He subsequently worked as a post-doctoral fellow in Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (1998-1999), as assistant professor in the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki and as researcher in AUTH (2000-2001) and as an invited CNRS researcher in the University of Bordeaux, France (2002). Since 2003 he has a position in the Faculty of Engineering of AUTH. His research interests include high pressure physics of condensed matter, Raman, absorption and time-resolved spectroscopy. In recent years he has focused his activity on investigation of nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes and metallic nanoparticles.
Fabrice Vallée, alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, joined the Ecole Polytechnique as a CNRS researcher in 1984 where he worked on nonlinear optics, short pulse lasers and time resolved spectroscopy of solids and nanostructured materials. In 2000 he moved to the University of Bordeaux where he created a new research group in nanophysics and co-founded a multidisciplinary nanosciences and nanotechnology network. He joined the University of Lyon in 2007 where he co-founded the FemtoNanoOptics group specialized in optical investigation of nanomaterials, from a single nano-object to ensembles. His current research interests include nanophysics, nanophotonics and plasmonics, ultrashort pulse lasers, and time resolved optical spectroscopy.
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Del Fatti, N., Christofilos, D., Vallée, F. et al. Optical response of a single gold nanoparticle. Gold Bull 41, 147–158 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03216592
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