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Overview

Stephan Link is affiliated with Rice University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their research particularly focuses on the development and application of nanomaterials, with an emphasis on gold and silver nanoparticles, plasmonic phenomena, and quantum dot technologies.

Link's main fields of study include:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering

The subfields of study reflect a multidisciplinary approach involving:

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

The central topics of their work can be detailed as:

  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Copper-based nanomaterials and applications
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging

Link has published numerous papers in various scientific venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Nanophotonic Approaches for Chirality Sensing," 2021, ACS Nano
  • "Chemical Interface Damping of Surface Plasmon Resonances," 2021, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "Increased Intraband Transitions in Smaller Gold Nanorods Enhance Light Emission," 2020, ACS Nano
  • "Plasmon Energy Transfer in Hybrid Nanoantennas," 2020, ACS Nano
  • "Ultrafast relaxation of lattice distortion in two-dimensional perovskites," 2023, Nature Physics

Frequent collaborative partners in these research efforts include:

  • Christy F. Landes
  • Stephen Lee
  • Behnaz Ostovar
  • Emily K. Searles
  • Niklas Gross

The prominent publication venues where Link regularly contributes are:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • ACS Nano
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Nano Letters
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Best Publications

  • Plasmons in strongly coupled metallic nanostructures.

    Naomi J. Halas;Surbhi Lal;Wei-Shun Chang;Stephan Link

  • Size and temperature dependence of the plasmon absorption of colloidal gold nanoparticles

    Stephan Link;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Shape and size dependence of radiative, non-radiative and photothermal properties of gold nanocrystals

    Stephan Link;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Nano-optics from sensing to waveguiding

    Surbhi Lal;Stephan Link;Naomi J. Halas

  • Optical properties and ultrafast dynamics of metallic nanocrystals.

    Stephan Link;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • The `lightning' gold nanorods: fluorescence enhancement of over a million compared to the gold metal

    Mona B. Mohamed;Victor Volkov;Stephan Link;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Plasmonic colour generation

    Anders Kristensen;Joel K. W. Yang;Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi;Stephan Link

  • Visible to Infrared Luminescence from a 28-Atom Gold Cluster

    Stephan Link;Andrew Beeby;Simon FitzGerald;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • Optical characterization of single plasmonic nanoparticles

    Jana Olson;Sergio Dominguez-Medina;Anneli Hoggard;Lin-Yung Wang

  • Chiral templating of self-assembling nanostructures by circularly polarized light

    Jihyeon Yeom;Bongjun Yeom;Henry Chan;Kyle W. Smith

  • How Does a Gold Nanorod Melt

    Stephan Link;and Zhong L. Wang;† Mostafa A. El-Sayed

  • A plasmonic Fano switch.

    Wei-Shun Chang;J. Britt Lassiter;Pattanawit Swanglap;Heidar Sobhani

  • Chemical Interface Damping Depends on Electrons Reaching the Surface.

    Benjamin Foerster;Anneli Joplin;Katharina Kaefer;Sirin Celiksoy

  • Vivid, full-color aluminum plasmonic pixels

    Jana Olson;Alejandro Manjavacas;Lifei Liu;Wei-Shun Chang

  • Plasmonic nanorod absorbers as orientation sensors

    Weishun Chang;Jiwon Ha;Liane Siu Slaughter;Stephan Link

  • Unraveling the origin of chirality from plasmonic nanoparticle-protein complexes

    Qingfeng Zhang;Taylor Hernandez;Kyle W. Smith;Seyyed Ali Hosseini Jebeli

  • Effects of Symmetry Breaking and Conductive Contact on the Plasmon Coupling in Gold Nanorod Dimers

    Liane Siu Slaughter;Yanpeng Wu;Britain A. Willingham;Peter Nordlander

  • The relaxation pathways of CdSe nanoparticles monitored with femtosecond time-resolution from the visible to the IR: Assignment of the transient features by carrier quenching

    Clemens Burda;Stephan Link;and Mona Mohamed;Mostafa El-Sayed

  • Bis(BF2)‐2,2′‐Bidipyrrins (BisBODIPYs): Highly Fluorescent BODIPY Dimers with Large Stokes Shifts

    Martin Bröring;Robin Krüger;Stephan Link;Christian Kleeberg

  • Nanophotonic Approaches for Chirality Sensing.

    Lauren A Warning;Ali Rafiei Miandashti;Lauren A McCarthy;Qingfeng Zhang

  • One-Photon Plasmon Luminescence and Its Application to Correlation Spectroscopy as a Probe for Rotational and Translational Dynamics of Gold Nanorods

    Alexei Tcherniak;Sergio Dominguez-Medina;Weishun Chang;Pattanawit Swanglap

Frequent Co-Authors

Wei-Shun Chang
Wei-Shun Chang University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Peter Nordlander
Peter Nordlander Rice University
Mostafa A. El-Sayed
Mostafa A. El-Sayed Georgia Institute of Technology
Naomi J. Halas
Naomi J. Halas Rice University
Eugene R. Zubarev
Eugene R. Zubarev Rice University
Arun Yethiraj
Arun Yethiraj University of Wisconsin–Madison
James M. Tour
James M. Tour Rice University
John E. Sader
John E. Sader California Institute of Technology
Nicholas A. Kotov
Nicholas A. Kotov University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gregory D. Scholes
Gregory D. Scholes Princeton University

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