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Congratulation for our new paper in Scientific Reports
Detection of Scorpion Venom by Optical Circular Dichroism Method
Y. Mazhdi, S. M. Hamidi
Various efforts have been made to detect minimum amounts of any toxic materials in water or the neurotoxic effect of venom (Odontobuthus Doriae Scorpion) in the humans҆ blood serum nerve by high-sensitivity, accurate, and low-cost sensors in order to enhance life style. Therefore, the present study was done to investigate reliability of two-dimensional plasmonic structure and circular dichroism (CD) in toxic samples in order to measure and determine venom concentrations and its neurotoxic effect on humans҆ blood serum Neurotransmitter analytes. Our results confirmed dependency of CD signal to neurotoxic effect of venom concentrations and good sensitivity of this sensor with the help of achiral plasmonic structure.
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Congratulations to Ms Masoumeh Amini and Mr Mojtaba Zamani for their thesis defenses!
Félicitations à Mme Masoumeh Amini et M. Mojtaba Zamani pour leurs soutenances de thèse!
INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF LIGHT 2015
On 20 December 2013, The United Nations (UN) General Assembly 68th Session proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015).
This International Year has been the initiative of a large consortium of scientific bodies together with UNESCO, and will bring together many different stakeholders including scientific societies and unions, educational institutions, technology platforms, non-profit organizations and private sector partners.
In proclaiming an International Year focusing on the topic of light science and its applications, the United Nations has recognized the importance of raising global awareness about how light-based technologies promote sustainable development and provide solutions to global challenges in energy, education, agriculture and health. Light plays a vital role in our daily lives and is an imperative cross-cutting discipline of science in the 21st century. It has revolutionized medicine, opened up international communication via the Internet, and continues to be central to linking cultural, economic and political aspects of the global society.
An International Year of Light is a tremendous opportunity to ensure that international policymakers and stakeholders are made aware of the problem-solving potential of light technology. We now have a unique opportunity to raise global awareness of this.
John Dudley, Chairman of the IYL 2015 Steering Committee
The tunable magnetic-field controlled behaviour of magnetoplasmonic crystals in a wide spectral range has been demonstrated experimentally
Researchers from the Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, in collaboration with their colleagues from Minsk, Belarus, experimentally studied optical and magnetooptical effects in magnetoplasmonic crystals and demonstrated the tunable magnetic-field controlled behaviour of these crystals in a wide spectral range.
Magnetoplasmonic crystals (MPC) attract much attention due to their unique and pronounced ability to control the light flow. One of the efficient MPC compositions is the combination of a dielectric magnetic film with a thin perforated metal layer on top. It was demonstrated that MPC of such a type supports the resonant excitation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) with a relatively long SPP propagation length and reveals a strong magneto-optical response introduced by garnet films. This allows for a magnetic field control over the SPP excitation at the metal/garnet interface. An important point here is that the quality of the interfaces between the adjacent metal and dielectric layers should be smooth and free of defects. This restricts the number of accessible techniques for the MPC fabrication.
In most of the experimental papers methods involving the electron beam lithography were used to make the Au/gold MPC on a gallium gadolinium garnet (GGG) substrate. It was shown that such a structure supports the excitation of the SPP modes localized on two metal surfaces, as well as the waveguide (WG) modes in the dielectric slab. The necessity in use of a template limited the variety of structures that have been studied; besides, the minimal thickness of the gold layer in such MPC was about 70 nm.
In the work of scientists from Physics Department of MSU performed in collaboration with their colleagues from Scientific-Practical Materials Research Centre , Minsk, Belarus, optical and magnetooptical effects in magnetoplasmonic crystals (MPC) were studied. The MPCs were formed by a 1D gold grating on top of a magnetic garnet layer made by a novel method of combined ion-beam etching technique. We demonstrate that the proposed method allows to make high-quality MPC. It is shown that MPC with a 30-40 nm thick perforated gold layer provides an effective excitation of two surface plasmon-polariton modes and several numbers of waveguide modes in the garnet layer. An enhancement of the transversal magneto-optical effect up to the value of 1% is observed for all types of resonant modes that propagate in the magnetic layer, due to magnetic-field control over the mode excitation, which is promising for future photonic devices.
This work has been published in the paper: A. L. Chekhov, V. L. Krutyanskiy, A. N. Shaimanov, A. I. Stognij, T. V. Murzina, “Wide tunability of magnetoplasmonic crystals due to excitation of multiple waveguide and plasmon modes”, Opt. Express 22 (15) 17762-17768 (2014).
Surface Plasmons Enable Tunable Color Filters
SINGAPORE, Aug. 30, 2012 — Combining a thin, perforated gold film with a liquid crystal layer makes a tunable, efficient color filter, engineers at A*STAR, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore, report.
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