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Title: Spectroscopy in Nanoscopic Cavities: Models and Recent Experiments
The ability of nanophotonic cavities to confine and store light to nanoscale dimensions has important implications for enhancing molecular, excitonic, phononic, and plasmonic optical responses. Spectroscopic signatures of processes that are ordinarily exceedingly weak such as pure absorption and Raman scattering have been brought to the single-particle limit of detection, while new emergent polaritonic states of optical matter have been realized through coupling material and photonic cavity degrees of freedom across a wide range of experimentally accessible interaction strengths. In this review, we discuss both optical and electron beam spectroscopies of cavity-coupled material systems in weak, strong, and ultrastrong coupling regimes, providing a theoretical basis for understanding the physics inherent to each while highlighting recent experimental advances and exciting future directions.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1936100
PAR ID:
10573045
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Chemical Review
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
Volume:
75
Issue:
1
ISSN:
0066-426X
Page Range / eLocation ID:
509 to 534
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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