Louis E. Brus

Charge Transfer on the Nanoscale:  Current Status

This is the report of a DOE-sponsored workshop organized to discuss the status of our understanding of charge-transfer processes on the nanoscale and to identify research and ot...

Graphene Oxidation: Thickness-Dependent Etching and Strong Chemical Doping

Patterned graphene shows substantial potential for applications in future molecular-scale integrated electronics. Environmental effects are a critical issue in a single-layer ma...

Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Individual Rhodamine 6G Molecules on Large Ag Nanocrystals

To explore the relationship between local electromagnetic field enhancement and the large SERS (surface enhanced Raman scattering) enhancement that enables the observation of si...

Near-field spectroscopy of single molecules at room temperature

Imaging and Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Single Molecules at an Interface

Far-field microscopy was used to noninvasively measure the room-temperature optical properties of single dye molecules located on a polymer-air interface. Shifts in the fluoresc...

Luminescence Photophysics in Semiconductor Nanocrystals

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTLuminescence Photophysics in Semiconductor NanocrystalsManoj Nirmal and Louis BrusView Author Information Chemistry Department, Colum...

Fluorescence intermittency in single cadmium selenide nanocrystals

The Quantum Mechanics of Larger Semiconductor Clusters ("Quantum Dots")

Machine learning (ML) is transforming all areas of science. The complex and time-consuming calculations in molecular simulations are particularly suitable for an ML revolution a...

Luminescence of Silicon Materials: Chains, Sheets, Nanocrystals, Nanowires, Microcrystals, and Porous Silicon

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTLuminescence of Silicon Materials: Chains, Sheets, Nanocrystals, Nanowires, Microcrystals, and Porous SiliconLouis BrusCite this: J. ...

High-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy imaging of mesoscopic graphene sheets on an insulating surface

We present scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images of single-layer graphene crystals examined under ultrahigh vacuum conditions. The samples, with lateral dimensions on the m...