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Romain Quidant

Romain Quidant

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  • 2018 - OSA Fellows Romain Quidant ICFO & ICREA, Spain For pioneering plasmon-enabled light–matter interaction at the nanometer scale, including laser tweezers, biosensors, thermoplasmonics and control of quantum emitter emission.

Overview

Romain Quidant is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has a significant research footprint in the fields of engineering and physics and astronomy. Their work spans multiple subfields, including atomic and molecular physics and optics, biomedical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and materials chemistry.

The scientist's research covers an array of main topics such as mechanical and optical resonators, orbital angular momentum in optics, microfluidic and bio-sensing technologies, photonic and optical devices, gold and silver nanoparticles synthesis and applications, microfluidic and capillary electrophoresis applications, and digital holography and microscopy.

Romain Quidant has contributed frequently to various publication venues which include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACS Photonics
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • Nano Letters

Collaborations have been a significant aspect of their career, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Jaime Ortega Arroyo
  • Nadine Meyer
  • Jose García-Guirado
  • Oriol Romero-Isart
  • Bernard Ciraulo

The following are recent papers authored or co-authored by Romain Quidant:

  • Applications and challenges of thermoplasmonics, 2020, Nature Materials
  • Levitodynamics: Levitation and control of microscopic objects in vacuum, 2021, Science
  • Roadmap for optical tweezers, 2023, Journal of Physics Photonics
  • Simultaneous ground-state cooling of two mechanical modes of a levitated nanoparticle, 2023, Nature Physics
  • Simple experimental procedures to distinguish photothermal from hot-carrier processes in plasmonics, 2020, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)

Romain Quidant received the OSA Fellows award in 2018 for pioneering work on plasmon-enabled light-matter interaction at the nanometer scale, with contributions spanning laser tweezers, biosensors, thermoplasmonics, and control of quantum emitter emission.

Best Publications

  • Unidirectional emission of a quantum dot coupled to a nanoantenna

    Alberto G. Curto;Giorgio Volpe;Tim H. Taminiau;Mark P. Kreuzer

  • Plasmon nano-optical tweezers

    Mathieu L Juan;Maurizio Righini;Romain Quidant

  • Thermo‐plasmonics: using metallic nanostructures as nano‐sources of heat

    Guillaume Baffou;Romain Quidant

  • Nanoscale control of optical heating in complex plasmonic systems.

    Guillaume Baffou;Romain Quidant;F. Javier García de Abajo

  • Nanoplasmonics for chemistry

    Guillaume Baffou;Romain Quidant

  • Subkelvin Parametric Feedback Cooling of a Laser-Trapped Nanoparticle

    Jan Gieseler;Bradley Deutsch;Romain Quidant;Lukas Novotny;Lukas Novotny

  • Heat generation in plasmonic nanostructures: Influence of morphology

    G. Baffou;R. Quidant;C. Girard

  • Self -induced back-action optical trapping of dielectric nanoparticles

    Mathieu L. Juan;Reuven Gordon;Yuanjie Pang;Fatima Eftekhari

  • Mapping intracellular temperature using green fluorescent protein.

    Jon S. Donner;Sebastian A. Thompson;Mark P. Kreuzer;Guillaume Baffou

  • Spectroscopic Mode Mapping of Resonant Plasmon Nanoantennas

    Petru Ghenuche;Sudhir Cherukulappurath;Tim H. Taminiau;Niek F. van Hulst

  • Photoinduced Heating of Nanoparticle Arrays

    Guillaume Baffou;Pascal Berto;Esteban Bermudez Urena;Romain Quidant

  • Nano-optical trapping of Rayleigh particles and Escherichia coli bacteria with resonant optical antennas.

    M Righini;P Ghenuche;S Cherukulappurath;V Myroshnychenko

  • Applications and challenges of thermoplasmonics.

    Guillaume Baffou;Frank Cichos;Romain Quidant;Romain Quidant;Romain Quidant

  • Plasmon near-field coupling in metal dimers as a step toward single-molecule sensing.

    Srdjan S. Aćimović;Mark P. Kreuzer;María U. González;Romain Quidant

  • Three-dimensional manipulation with scanning near-field optical nanotweezers

    J. Berthelot;S. S. Aćimović;M. L. Juan;M. P. Kreuzer

  • Direct Measurement of Photon Recoil from a Levitated Nanoparticle

    Vijay Jain;Vijay Jain;Jan Gieseler;Clemens Moritz;Christoph Dellago

  • Plasmon-assisted optofluidics.

    Jon S. Donner;Guillaume Baffou;David McCloskey;Romain Quidant

  • Mapping Heat Origin in Plasmonic Structures

    Guillaume Baffou;Christian Girard;Romain Quidant

  • Levitodynamics: Levitation and control of microscopic objects in vacuum

    C. Gonzalez-Ballestero;C. Gonzalez-Ballestero;M. Aspelmeyer;M. Aspelmeyer;L. Novotny;R. Quidant

  • Thermal nonlinearities in a nanomechanical oscillator

    Jan Gieseler;Lukas Novotny;Romain Quidant

  • Surface Plasmon Radiation Forces

    Giovanni Volpe;Romain Quidant;Gonçal Badenes;Dmitri Petrov

  • Surface plasmon optical tweezers: tunable optical manipulation in the femtonewton range.

    Maurizio Righini;Giovanni Volpe;Christian Girard;Dmitri Petrov

Frequent Co-Authors

Lukas Novotny
Lukas Novotny ETH Zurich
Alain Dereux
Alain Dereux University of Burgundy
Niek F. van Hulst
Niek F. van Hulst Institute of Photonic Sciences
F. Javier García de Abajo
F. Javier García de Abajo Institute of Photonic Sciences
Yong Chen
Yong Chen École Normale Supérieure
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi University of Southern Denmark
Ramon Alcubilla
Ramon Alcubilla Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Sébastien Guenneau
Sébastien Guenneau Imperial College London
Frank H. L. Koppens
Frank H. L. Koppens Institute of Photonic Sciences
Erik Dujardin
Erik Dujardin Centre d’Élaboration de Matériaux et d’Etudes Structurales

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