Publications de Christian Santschi

An unconventional take on plasmonic metasurfaces

Olivier Martin, Christian Santschi, Jeonghyeon Kim

The immense potential of optical metasurfaces is showcased by demonstrating several state-of-the-art applications with plasmonic metasurfaces along with experimental investigation of their polarization response using Mueller matrix spectroscopy. The work o ...

SPIE2024

A Low-Temperature Annealing Method for Alloy Nanostructures and Metasurfaces: Unlocking a Novel Degree of Freedom

Olivier Martin, Christian Santschi, Hsiang-Chu Wang, Jeonghyeon Kim, Debdatta Ray

The material and exact shape of a nanostructure determine its optical response, which is especially strong for plasmonic metals. Unfortunately, only a few plasmonic metals are available, which limits the spectral range where these strong optical effects ca ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2022

Controlling surface effects in extremely high aspect ratio gold plasmonic electrodes

Olivier Martin, Christian Santschi, Marco Riccardi

Nanofabrication is key to many technological advances, especially the challenge of merging nanophotonics with electronics. Here, we investigate the fabrication process of plasmonic interdigitated gold electrodes having a very high aspect ratio (i.e. long a ...

ELSEVIER2022

Fabrication of plasmonic structures with well-controlled nanometric features: a comparison between lift-off and ion beam etching

Olivier Martin, Christian Santschi, Banafsheh Abasahl

After providing a detailed overview of nanofabrication techniques for plasmonics, we discuss in detail two different approaches for the fabrication of metallic nanostructures based on e-beam lithography. The first approach relies on a negative e-beam resis ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Design and fabrication strategies of complex plasmonic structures for trapping and sensing applications

Olivier Martin, Christian Santschi, Marco Riccardi

2021

Reliable Langmuir Blodgett colloidal masks for large area nanostructure realization

Olivier Martin, Christian Santschi, Madasamy Thangamuthu

The fabrication of highly ordered nanostructures over large areas is key for many technologies and colloidal lithography using the Langmuir Blodgett technique appears a simple and straightforward way of reaching that goal. While this technique has been wid ...

2020

Hybrid Metal-Dielectric Metasurfaces for Refractive Index Sensing

Olivier Martin, Hatice Altug, Christian Santschi, Dordaneh Etezadi, Raziman Thottungal Valapu, Debdatta Ray

Hybrid metal-dielectric nanostructures have recently gained prominence because they combine strong field enhancement of plasmonic metals and the several low-loss radiation channels of dielectric resonators, which are qualities pertaining to the best of bot ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Extending the limits of conventional plasmonics with low temperature alloying of noble metals

Olivier Martin, Christian Santschi, Hsiang-Chu Wang, Jeonghyeon Kim, Debdatta Ray

2020

High-quality single crystal diamond diffraction gratings fabricated by crystallographic etching

Olivier Martin, Niels Quack, Christian Santschi, Toralf Scharf, Teodoro Graziosi, Marcell Kristof Kiss

We demonstrate a novel method for fabricating single crystal diamond diffraction gratings based on crystallographic etching that yields high-quality diffraction gratings from commercially available diamond plates. Both V-groove and rectangular gratin ...

2019

Photocatalytic ammonia production enhanced by a plasmonic near-field and hot electrons originating from aluminium nanostructures

Olivier Martin, Christian Santschi, Madasamy Thangamuthu

Ammonia production at room temperature and atmospheric pressure is in high demand to assist in energy saving and the protection of the environment worldwide, as well as to help reduce CO2 emissions. Recently, plasmonic nanomaterials have been frequently us ...

2019