Microwave seminar | 05 May 2020

Energy transfer between molecules is an essential phenomenon for photosynthesis, photovoltaics, and biotechnology. Thanks to their ability to control and manipulate optical fields down to the nanometre scale, it is appealing to use nanophotonic plasmonic structures to control and further enhance the energy transfer between single quantum emitters. In this contribution, I will briefly review the state-of-the-art in the field of using optical nanostructures to control the near-field energy transfer. Especially the conditions leading to some visible effects and those not will be discussed based on the recent literature and I will also discuss the current limits in the optical detection.