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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1990 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

V. A. Apkarian is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans several fields including Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Materials Science, with a focus on subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, primarily involving Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research, Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications, Surface and Thin Film Phenomena, and Near-Field Optical Microscopy.

Frequent coauthors include Dmitry A. Fishman, Eric O. Potma, Liat Katrivas, Alexander Kotlyar, and Joonhee Lee.

V. A. Apkarian has published in several venues with repeated contributions to ACS Nano, as well as publications appearing in arXiv (Cornell University), Chemical Society Reviews, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, and Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films. Some noted recent papers are:

  • Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: a half-century historical perspective (2024, Chemical Society Reviews)
  • Efficient Plasmon-Mediated Energy Funneling to the Surface of Au@Pt Core-Shell Nanocrystals (2020, ACS Nano)
  • Active Plasmonics and Active Chiral Plasmonics through Orientation-Dependent Multipolar Interactions (2020, ACS Nano)
  • Photon Momentum Enabled Light Absorption in Silicon (2024, ACS Nano)
  • Chemically Selective Imaging of Individual Bonds through Scanning Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy: Disulfide Bridges Linking Gold Nanoclusters (2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters)

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004 and as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Visualizing vibrational normal modes of a single molecule with atomically confined light

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  • Molecular Photodynamics in Rare Gas Solids.

    V. A. Apkarian;N. Schwentner

  • Seeing a single molecule vibrate through time-resolved coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering

    Steven Yampolsky;Dmitry A. Fishman;Shirshendu Dey;Eero Hulkko;Eero Hulkko

  • The breaking and remaking of a bond: Caging of I2 in solid Kr

    R. Zadoyan;Z. Li;C. C. Martens;V. A. Apkarian

  • Femtosecond dynamics of coherent photodissociation—recombination of I2 isolated in matrix Ar

    R. Zadoyan;Z. Li;P. Ashjian;C.C. Martens

  • Quantum control of I2 in the gas phase and in condensed phase solid Kr matrix

    Christopher J. Bardeen;Jianwei Che;Kent R. Wilson;Vladislav V. Yakovlev

  • Surface-enhanced Raman trajectories on a nano-dumbbell: transition from field to charge transfer plasmons as the spheres fuse.

    Mayukh Banik;Patrick Z. El-Khoury;Amit Nag;Alejandro Rodriguez-Perez

  • Photogeneration of ions via delocalized charge transfer states. I. Xe2H+ and Xe2D+ in solid Xe

    H. Kunttu;J. Seetula;M. Räsänen;V. A. Apkarian

  • Cooperative photoabsorption induced charge transfer reaction dynamics in rare gas solids. I. Photodynamics of localized xenon chloride exciplexes

    Mario E. Fajardo;V. A. Apkarian

  • Charge transfer photodynamics in halogen doped xenon matrices. II. Photoinduced harpooning and the delocalized charge transfer states of solid xenon halides (F, Cl, Br, I)

    Mario E. Fajardo;V. A. Apkarian

  • Femtosecond Many-Body Dynamics of Caging: Experiment and Simulation of I2 Photodissociation-Recombination in Solid Ar

    Z. Li;R. Zadoyan;V. A. Apkarian;C. C. Martens

  • Dynamics of molecular reactions in solids: Photodissociation of HI in crystalline Xe

    R. Alimi;R. B. Gerber;V. A. Apkarian

  • Ultrafast pump-probe force microscopy with nanoscale resolution

    Junghoon Jahng;Jordan Brocious;Dmitry A. Fishman;Steven Yampolsky

  • Temperature induced mobility and recombination of atomic oxygen in crystalline Kr and Xe. I. Experiment

    A. V. Danilychev;V. A. Apkarian

  • CHARGE TRANSFER WITHIN HE CLUSTERS

    Berton E. Callicoatt;David D. Mar;V. A. Apkarian;Kenneth C. Janda

  • Semiclassical molecular dynamics computation of spontaneous light emission in the condensed phase: Resonance Raman spectra

    M. Ovchinnikov;V. A. Apkarian;Gregory A. Voth

  • Photodissociation of F2 and mobility of F atoms in crystalline argon

    J. Feld;H. Kunttu;V. A. Apkarian

  • The manipulation of massive ro-vibronic superpositions using time–frequency-resolved coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (TFRCARS): from quantum control to quantum computing

    R. Zadoyan;D. Kohen;D.A. Lidar;V.A. Apkarian

  • Photodynamics in superfluid helium: Femtosecond laser-induced ionization, charge recombination, and preparation of molecular Rydberg states

    A. V. Benderskii;R. Zadoyan;N. Schwentner;V. A. Apkarian

  • Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectromicroscopy on the Angstrom Scale: Bare and CO-Terminated Ag Tips

    Nicholas Tallarida;Joonhee Lee;Vartkess Ara Apkarian

  • Mixed-order semiclassical dynamics in coherent state representation: The connection between phonon sidebands and guest-host dynamics

    M. Ovchinnikov;V. A. Apkarian

  • Surface-Enhanced Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy at 1 MHz Repetition Rates.

    Lauren Elizabeth Buchanan;Natalie L. Gruenke;Michael O. McAnally;Bogdan Negru

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric O. Potma
Eric O. Potma University of California, Irvine
Kenneth C. Janda
Kenneth C. Janda University of California, Irvine
George C. Schatz
George C. Schatz Northwestern University
Anna I. Krylov
Anna I. Krylov University of Southern California
Christopher J. Bardeen
Christopher J. Bardeen University of California, Riverside
Guillermo C. Bazan
Guillermo C. Bazan National University of Singapore
Kent R. Wilson
Kent R. Wilson University of California, San Diego
Mika Pettersson
Mika Pettersson University of Jyväskylä
Richard P. Van Duyne
Richard P. Van Duyne Northwestern University
Abraham Nitzan
Abraham Nitzan University of Pennsylvania

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