Javier Aizpurua Iriazabal

Ikerbasque Research Professor, DIPC

Scientific Director of Basque Quantum, BasQ, at Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC); Distinguished Researcher at University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

Research line:

Theory of Nanophotonics.

Euskadi Award on research 2022; APS Fellow; highly cited researcher (2017-2020).

Previous research experience at Chalmers University of Technology (Göteborg, Sweden), National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST (Maryland, US), and Center for Materials Physics (CSIC-EHU/UPV, Donostia).

Doctor in Physics (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 1998).

Publications

2024

Article / Characterizing the Backscattered Spectrum of Mie Spheres

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Molezuelas-Ferreras, M.; Nodar, Á.; Barra-Burillo, M.; Olmos-Trigo, J.; Lasa-Alonso, J.; Gómez-Viloria, I.; Posada, E.; Varga, J.J.M.; Esteban, R.; Aizpurua, J.; Hueso, L.E.; Lopez, C.; Molina-Terriza, G.

Article / Giant Quantum Electrodynamic Effects on Single SiV Color Centers in Nanosized Diamonds

ACS Nano

Bézard, M.; Babaze, A.; Mindarava, Y.; Blinder, R.; Davydov, V.A.; Agafonov, V.; Esteban, R.; Tamarat, P.; Aizpurua, J.; Jelezko, F.; Lounis, B.

Article / Amplifying Sensing Capabilities: Combining Plasmonic Resonances and Fresnel Reflections through Multivariate Analysis

Small Methods

Etxebarria-Elezgarai, J.; Bergamini, L.; Lopez, E.; Morant-Miñana, M.C.; Adam, J.; Zabala, N.; Aizpurua, J.; Seifert, A.

Article / Unified Treatment of Light Emission by Inelastic Tunneling: Interaction of Electrons and Photons beyond the Gap

Physical Review X

Muniain, U.; Esteban, R.; Aizpurua, J.; Greffet, J.J.

Article / Footprints of atomic-scale features in plasmonic nanoparticles as revealed by electron energy loss spectroscopy

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Urbieta, M.; Barbry, M.; Koval, P.; Rivacoba, A.; Sánchez-Portal, D.; Aizpurua, J.; Zabala, N.

Article / Tailoring the statistics of light emitted from two interacting quantum emitters

Physical Review Research

Juan-Delgado, A.; Esteban, R.; Nodar, Á.; Trebbia, J.B.; Lounis, B.; Aizpurua, J.

Article / Tip-enhanced Raman scattering

Nature Reviews Methods Primers

Höppener, C.; Aizpurua, J.; Chen, H.; Gräfe, S.; Jorio, A.; Kupfer, S.; Zhang, Z.; Deckert, V.

Article / Comparison of Gap-Enhanced Raman Tags and Nanoparticle Aggregates with Polarization Dependent Super-Resolution Spectral SERS Imaging

Analytical Chemistry

Shoup, D.N.; Fan, S.; Zapata-Herrera, M.; Schorr, H.C.; Aizpurua, J.; Schultz, Z.D.

Article / Uncovering low-frequency vibrations in surface-enhanced Raman of organic molecules

Nature Communications

Boehmke Amoruso, A.; Boto, R.A.; Elliot, E.; de Nijs, B.; Esteban, R.; Földes, T.; Aguilar-Galindo, F.; Rosta, E.; Aizpurua, J.; Baumberg, J.J.

Article / Influence of atomistic features in plasmon-exciton coupling and charge transfer driven by a single molecule in a metallic nanocavity

Journal of Chemical Physics

Candelas, B.; Zabala, N.; Koval, P.; Babaze, A.; Sánchez-Portal, D.; Aizpurua, J.

2023

Article / Real-space observation of ultraconfined in-plane anisotropic acoustic terahertz plasmon polaritons

Nature Materials

Chen, S.; Leng, P.L.; Konečná, A.; Modin, E.; Gutierrez-Amigo, M.; Vicentini, E.; Martín-García, B.; Barra-Burillo, M.; Niehues, I.; Maciel Escudero, C.; Xie, X.Y.; Hueso, L.E.; Artacho, E.; Aizpurua, J.; Errea, I.; Vergniory, M.G.; Chuvilin, A.; Xiu, F.X.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Probing the electromagnetic response of dielectric antennas by vortex electron beams

Physical Review Research

Konečná, A.; Schmidt, M.K.; Hillenbrand, R.; Aizpurua, J.

Article / Molecular-Induced Chirality Transfer to Plasmonic Lattice Modes

ACS Photonics

Goerlitzer, E.S.A.; Zapata-Herrera, M.; Ponomareva, E.; Feller, D.; Garcia-Etxarri, A.; Karg, M.; Aizpurua, J.; Vogel, N.

Article / Quantum Plasmonics in Sub-Atom-Thick Optical Slots

Nano Letters

Baumberg, J.J.; Esteban, R.; Hu, S.; Muniain, U.; Silkin, I.V.; Aizpurua, J.; Silkin, V.M.

Article / Probing optical anapoles with fast electron beams

Nature Communications

Maciel-Escudero, C.; Yankovich, A.B.; Munkhbat, B.; Baranov, D.G.; Hillenbrand, R.; Olsson, E.; Aizpurua, J.; Shegai, T.O.