Peter J. A. Nordlander

About

Professor Peter J. A. Nordlander is the Principal Investigator of the Nordlander Nanophotonics Group at Rice University. His research focuses on condensed matter theory, electronic and optical properties of nanoparticles, electron transfer and transport in nanostructures, nanooptics, nanophotonics, and plasmonics. He leads a team that investigates fundamental physical phenomena in nanoscale systems, particularly those involving plasmonic effects and their applications in nanophotonics. Professor Nordlander's work encompasses theoretical and computational studies aimed at understanding and manipulating light-matter interactions at the nanoscale, contributing to advancements in the fields of nanooptics and plasmonics.

Research topics

• Optoelectronics
• Materials science
• Chemistry
• Physics
• Nanotechnology
• Optics
• Chemical engineering
• Atomic physics
• Photochemistry
• Environmental science

Selected publications

• Light-driven methane dry reforming with single atomic site antenna-reactor plasmonic photocatalysts

  Nature Energy · 2020 · 758 citations

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• Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: a half-century historical perspective

  Chemical Society Reviews · 2024-12-23 · 276 citations

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  Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has evolved significantly over fifty years into a powerful analytical technique. This review aims to achieve five main goals. (1) Providing a comprehensive history of SERS's discovery, its experimental and theoretical foundations, its connections to advances in nanoscience and plasmonics, and highlighting collective contributions of key pioneers. (2) Classifying four pivotal phases from the view of innovative methodologies in the fifty-year progression:…

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• Earth-abundant photocatalyst for H ₂ generation from NH ₃ with light-emitting diode illumination

  Science · 2022 · 261 citations

  Catalysts based on platinum group metals have been a major focus of the chemical industry for decades. We show that plasmonic photocatalysis can transform a thermally unreactive, earth-abundant transition metal into a catalytically active site under illumination. Fe active sites in a Cu-Fe antenna-reactor complex achieve efficiencies very similar to Ru for the photocatalytic decomposition of ammonia under ultrafast pulsed illumination. When illuminated with light-emitting diodes rather than lase…

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• Monolithic Metal Dimer-on-Film Structure: New Plasmonic Properties Introduced by the Underlying Metal

  Nano Letters · 2020 · 133 citations

  Dimers, two closely spaced metallic nanostructures, are one of the primary nanoscale geometries in plasmonics, supporting high local field enhancements in their interparticle junction under excitation of their hybridized "bonding" plasmon. However, when a dimer is fabricated on a metallic substrate, its characteristics are changed profoundly. Here we examine the properties of a Au dimer on a Au substrate. This structure supports a bright "bonding" dimer plasmon, screened by the metal, and a lowe…

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• Al@TiO₂ Core–Shell Nanoparticles for Plasmonic Photocatalysis

  ACS Nano · 2022 · 107 citations

  antenna-reactor provides an earth-abundant solution for the future design of visible-light-driven plasmonic photocatalysts.

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Recent grants

• MRI: Development of Nanoscale Probes for Enhanced Vibrational Spectroscopy

  NSF · $250k · 2004–2008

Frequent coauthors

• Naomi J. Halas

  Rice University

  330 shared

• Hongxing Xu

  Wuhan Institute of Technology

  76 shared

• Javier Aizpurua

  Donostia International Physics Center

  54 shared

• A. G. Borisov

  Université Paris-Saclay

  44 shared

• Stephan Link

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  43 shared

• Oara Neumann

  Rice University

  33 shared

• Alessandro Alabastri

  Rice University

  33 shared

• Yurui Fang

  Dalian University of Technology

  33 shared

Labs

• Nordlander Nanophotonics GroupPI

Awards & honors

• Charles Duncan Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement (1…
• Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics (2…
• Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids (2014)
• R.W. Wood Prize in Optics (2015)
• Hershel M. Rich Invention Award (2019)

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