Theory of Nanophotonics Group

The group is devoted to the theoretical study of the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and nanostructured materials. The topic is commonly names as Nanophotonics. Tre research of the group is focused on the study of the excitation of plasmons, quantum dots and dielectric nanostructures in the context of a variety of microscopy and spectroscopy techniques, such as Dark Field Microscopy (DFM), scattering-type Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy (s-SNOM), Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS), Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM), Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS), Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption (SEIRA), or Surface-Enhanced Fluorescence (SEF), among others. The theoretical framework to study light-matter interaction combines different aspects of classical Optics, Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Chemistry and cavity Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) that involve the solution of either Maxwell's equations or the equations of quantum mechanics.