Publications

Refereed articles

• Martin Theuring, Peng Hui Wang, Martin Vehse, Volker Steenhoff, Karsten von Maydell, Carsten Agert, and Alexandre G. Brolo, Comparison of Ag and SiO2 Nanoparticles for Light Trapping Applications in Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters volume 5, pp 3302-3306 (2014).
• Antonio M. Brito-Silva, Regivaldo G. Sobral-Filho, Hans A.G. Mejia, Yu-Hsuan Wang, Penghui Wang, Giovanna Machado, Edilson L Falcao-Filho, Cid Bartolomeu de Araujo, and Alexandre G. Brolo, Engineering of CdTe Multicore in ZnO Nanoshell as a New Charge-Transfer Material, Journal of Physical Chemistry C volume 118, issue 32, pp 18372-18376 (2014).
• Austin, W.C., Ott, B. Reiswig, H.M., Romagosa, P. McDaniel, N.G., Taxonomic review of Hadromerida (Porifera, Demospongiae) from British Columbia, Canada, and adjacent waters, with the description of nine new species, Zootaxa volume 3823, issue 1, pp 1-84 (2014).
• Abhay Kotnala, Reuven Gordon, Double nanohole optical tweezers visualize protein p53 suppressing unzipping of single DNA-hairpins, Biomedical Optics Express volume 5, issue 6, pp 1886 (2014).
• Andrea Michelle Price, Vera Pospelova, Spiniferites multisphaerus, a new dinoflagellate cyst from the Late Quaternary of the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California, Mexico, Palynology volume 38, issue 1, pp 101-116 (2014).
• Ahmed A. Al Balushi, Reuven Gordon, Label-Free Free-Solution Single-Molecule Protein-Small Molecule Interaction Observed by Double-Nanohole Plasmonic Trapping, ACS Photonics volume 1, number 5, pp 389-393 (2014).
• Abhay Kotnala, Reuven Gordon, Quantification of High-Efficiency Trapping of Nanoparticles in a Double Nanohole Optical Tweezer, Nano Letters volume 14, issue 2, pp 853-856 (2014).
• Junghyuk Ko, Nima Khadem Mohtaram, Farid Ahmed, Amy Montgomery, Michael Carlson, Patrick C.D. Lee, Stephanie M. Willerth, Martin B.G. Jun, Fabrication of poly (ϵ-caprolactone) microfiber scaffolds with varying topography and mechanical properties for stem cell-based tissue engineering applications, Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition volume 25, issue 1, pp 1-17 (2014).
• Andrew Agbay, Nima Khadem Mohtaram, Stephanie Michelle Willerth, Controlled release of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor from poly(ε-caprolactone) microspheres, Drug Delivery and Translational Research, published online January 14, 2014.
• Peng Hui Wang, Morgan Millard, Alexandre G. Brolo, Optimizing Plasmonic Silicon Photovoltaics with Ag and Au Nanoparticle Mixtures, Journal of Physical Chemistry C volume 118, issue 11, pp 5889-5895 (2014).

Posters

• Craig King, Nima Khadem Mohtaram, Junghyuk Ko, Lin Sun, Martin Byung-Buk Jung, Stephanie Willerth, Neuronal Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Seeded on Melt Electrospun Microfibers, Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards, University of Victoria, 2014.

Non refereed articles

• Adam Schuetze, A Method to Correct FIB Lens Focus on Flat Plane Samples, Microscopy Today, volume 22, issue 2, March 2014, pp 12-17.

Other media projects

• James Tyrwhitt-Drake's always updating Tumblr blog Infinity Imagined.

Refereed articles

• Gabriela Andrea Cervantes Tellez, Sa'Ad Hassan, R. Niall Tait, Pierre Berini, Reuven Gordon, Atomically flat symmetric elliptical nanohole arrays in a gold film for ultrasensitive refractive index sensing, Lab on a Chip, issue 13, pp 2541-2546 (2013).
• Ana Zehtabi-Oskuie, Hao Jiang, Bryce R. Cyr, Douglas W. Rennehan, Ahmed A. Al-Balushi, Reuven Gordon, Double nanohole optical trapping: dynamics and protein-antibody co-trapping, Lab on a Chip, issue 13, pp 2563-2568 (2013).
• Gustavo F.S. Andrade, Juliano G. Hayashi, Mohammad M. Rahman, Walter J. Salcedo, Cristiano M.B. Cordeiro, Alexandre G. Brolo, Surface-Enhanced Resonance Raman Scattering (SERRS) Using Au Nanohole Arrays on Optical Fiber Tips, Plasmonics volume 8, issue 2, pp 1113-1121 (2013).
• Escobedo C, Chou YW, Rahman M, Duan X, Gordon R, Sinton D, Brolo AG, Ferreira J, Quantification of ovarian cancer markers with integrated microfluidic concentration gradient and imaging nanohole surface plasmon resonance, Analyst volume 138, pp 1450-1458 (2013).
• Johny P. Monteiro, Leandro B. Carneiro, Mohammad M. Rahman, Alexandre G. Brolo, Marcos J.L. Santos, Jacqueline Ferreira, Emerson M. Girotto, Effect of periodicity on the performance of surface plasmon resonance sensors based on subwavelength nanohole arrays, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical volume 178, March 1, 2013, pp 366-370 (2013).
• Nima Moghimian, Mahshid Sam, Rustom B. Bhiladvala, Rhodium nanowires: Synthesis and nanostructure tailoring by controlling hydrogen evolution, Materials Letters volume 113, December 15, pp 152-155 (2013).
• Nima Moghimian, Mahshid Sam, Jesse D. Coelho, Stephen D.W. Warwick, Rustom B. Bhiladvala, Suppressing electroless growth allows cyanide-free electrodeposition of straight separable gold nanowires, Electrochimica Acta volume 114, December 30, pp 643-648 (2013).
• Reiswig, H.M., Stone, R.P., New glass sponges (Porifera: Hexactinellida) from deep waters of the central Aleutian Islands, Alaska, Zootaxa volume 3628, issue 1, pp 1-64 (2013).
• Reiswig, H.M, Six new species of glass sponges (Porifera: Hexactinellida) from the NE Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, published online, March 26, 2013.
• B. Heshmat, M. Masnadi-Shirazi, R. B. Lewis, J. Zhang, T. Tiedje, R. Gordon, T. E. Darcie, Enhanced Terahertz Bandwidth and Power from GaAsBi-based Sources, Advanced Optical Materials, accepted
• G.G Voldman, M.J. Genge, G.L. Albanesi, C.R. Barnes, G. Ortega, Cosmic spherules from the Ordovician of Argentina, Geological Journal volume 48, issue 2-3, pp222-225 (2013).
• J. Bergeron, A. Zehtabi-Oskuie, S. Ghaffari, Y. Pang, R. Gordon, Optical Trapping of Nanoparticles, Journal of Visualized Experiments 71, e4424 (2013).
• A. Al Balushi, A. Zehtabi-Oskuie, R. Gordon, Observing single protein binding by optical transmission through a double nanohole aperture in a metal film, Biomedical Optics Express 4 issue 9, 1504-1511 (2013).

Conference proceedings

• B. Heshmat, M. Masnadi-Shirazi, R. B. Lewis, T. Tiedje, T. E. Darcie, Dual THz emissions of GaAsBi for THz photoconductive switching, CLEO, Poster Session III: Light-Matter Interactions, ultrafast & Quantum Optics (JTh2A), San Jose, USA , 2013.
• B. Heshmat, M. Masnadi-Shirazi, R. B. Lewis, T. Tiedje, R. Gordon, T. E. Darcie, Nanoplasmonics for terahertz, SPP6, The 6th International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics, Ottawa, Canada, 2013.
• Kathryn Gomery, Elaine Humphrey, Stephen V. Evans, Rodney Herring, Insights into protein crystallization using flulid cells in an electron microscope, Microscopical Society of Canada 2013 Meeting, Victoria, BC, Canada.
• Rodney A. Herring, Recent STEHM High-Ressolution Performance and Future Applications, Microscopical Society of Canada 2013 Meeting, Victoria, BC, Canada.
• Mark Webber, Elaine Humphrey, A Quick and Simple Technique for Orientating Diatoms for SEM and Light Microscopy, Microscopical Society of Canada 2013 Meeting, Victoria, BC, Canada.
• James Tyrwhitt-Drake, Creating Animations with Scanning Electron Microscopy, Microscopical Society of Canada 2013 Meeting, Victoria, BC, Canada.
• R Singh, AR Akhgar, PC Sui, KJ Lange, N Djilali, FIB-SEM characterization and pore scale modeling of PEFC catalyst layers, Microscopical Society of Canada 2013 Meeting, Victoria, BC, Canada.
• Nima Khadem Mohtaram, Junghyuk Ko, Michael Carlson, Martin Byung-Guk Jun, Stephanie Willerth, Nanofabrication of Electrospun Fibers for Controlled Release of Retinoic Acid, 8th International Conference on MicroManufacturing, ICOMM 2013 No. 3, March 25, 2013.
• Junghyuk Ko, Nima K. Mohtaram, Patrick C.D. Lee, Stephanie M. Willerth, Martin B. Jun, Parametric Studies of Melt Electrospinning Poly ε (caprolactone) Fibers for Tissue Engineering Applications, 8th International Conference on MicroManufacturing, ICOMM 2013 No. 15, March 25, 2013.

Reports

• Craig King, The Effect of Scaffold Architecture on Directing Neuronal Differentiation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, University of Victoria Faculty of Engineering Work Term Report, Spring 2013.
• John Edgar, Encapsulation of Polymeric Microspheres for Promoting Neural Differentiation of Pluripotent Stem Cells, University of Victoria Faculty of Engineering Work Term Report, Fall 2013.

Other media projects

• James Tyrwhitt-Drake, 230 megapixel SEM image of marine diatom, on Gigapan.
• James Tyrwhitt-Drake, Inside a neuron, on Gigapan.
• James Tyrwhitt-Drake, Inside a neuron (colorized), on Gigapan.

Refereed articles

• Gustavo F.S. Andrade, Qiao Min, Reuven Gordon, Alexandre G. Brolo, Surface-Enhanced Resonance Raman Scattering on Gold Concentric Rings: Polarization Dependence and Intensity Fluctuations, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, volume 116, issue 4, pp 2672-2676 (2012).
• Gabriela Andrea Cervantes Tellez, Aftab Ahmed, Reuven Gordon, Optimizing the resolution of nanohole arrays in metal films for refractive-index sensing, Applied Physics A, volume 109, issue 4, pp 775-780 (2012).
• Ana Zehtabi-Oskuie, Jarrah Gerald Bergeron, Reuven Gordon, Flow-dependent double-nanohole optical trapping of 20 nm polystyrene nanospheres, Scientific Reports volume 2, article 966 (2012).
• Ishita Mukherjee and Reuven Gordon, Analysis of hybrid plasmonic-photonic crystal structures using perturbation theory, Optics Express volume 20, issue 15, pp 16992-17000 (2012).
• Aftab Ahmed and Reuven Gordon, Single Molecule Directivity Enhanced Raman Scattering using Nanoantennas, Nano Letters volume 12, issue 5, pp 2625-2630 (2012).
• Y. Pang, and R. Gordon, Optical Trapping of a Single Protein, Nano Letters volume 12, issue 1, pp 402–406 (2012).
• A. Ahmed, Y. Pang, G. Hajisalem, and R.Gordon, Antenna Design for Directivity Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, International Journal of Optics volume 2012, 729138 (2012).
• B. Heshmat, H. Pahlevaninezhad, Y., Pang, M. Masnadi-Shirazi, R. B. Lewis, T. Tiedje, R. Gordon, T. E. Darcie, Nanoplasmonic Terahertz Photoconductive Switch on GaAs, Nano Letters volume 12, issue 12, pp 6255-6259 (2012).
• G. Hajisalem, A. Ahmed, Y. Pang, R. Gordon, Plasmon Hybridization for Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Response, Optics Express volume 20, issue 28, pp 29923-29930 (2012).
• Carlos Escobedo, Alexandre G. Brolo, Reuven Gordon, and David Sinton, Optofluidic Concentration: Plasmonic Nanostructure as Concentrator and Sensor, Nano Letters volume 12, issue 3, pp 1592-1596 (2012)
• Alexandre G. Brolo, Plasmonics for future biosensors, Nature Photonics volume 6, issue 11, pp 709-713 (2012)

Conference proceedings

• E. Humphrey, A. Schuetze, K. McCaugherty, R. Herring, An Improved Phase Mask for Electron Vortex Beams, Poster Session 2.5, Proceedings of the 15th European Microscopy Conference, EMC 2012.
• Kathryn Gomery, Elaine Humphrey, Rodney Herring, Protein Crystallization through the Eye of an Electron Microscope, Poster presentation at the Microscopical Society of Canada annual meeting 2012, Dalhousie, Halifax.

Theses

• Y. Pang, Nanophotonics with subwavelength apertures: theories and applications. PhD dissertation, University of Victoria, defended April 25, 2012.

Books

• Mostafa Masnadi-Shirazi (co-author), Bismuth Containing III-V Semiconductors: Epitaxial Growth and Physical Properties, chapter 7 in Molecular Beam Epitaxy : from research to mass production, Editor: Mohammad Henini, Elsevier Ltd., ISBN: 978-0-12-387839-7 (2012).

Other

• Y. Pang and R. Gordon, System for Trapping and Modifying Single Protein Molecules Using a Double Nanohole Structure, USPTO Patent Application 61/682,642, filed August 13, 2012.
• James Tyrwhitt-Drake has made an animated GIF, zooming into a sample on the S-4800 SEM. The sample is a bacterium on a diatom on an amphipod.

Refereed articles

• A-P. Blanchard-Dionne, L. Guyot, S. Patskovsky, R. Gordon, M. Meunier, Intensity based surface plasmon resonance sensor using a nanohole rectangular array, Optics Express volume 19, issue 16, pp 15041 (2011).
• Ishita Mukherjee, Ghazal Hajisalem, and Reuven Gordon, One-step integration of metal nanoparticle in photonic crystal nanobeam cavity, Optics Express volume 19, issue 23, pp 22462-22469 (2011).
• Aftab Ahmed and Reuven Gordon, Directivity Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Using Nanoantennas, Nano Letters volume 11, issue 4, pp 1800-1803 (2011).
• Y. Pang, and R. Gordon, Optical Trapping of 12 nm Dielectric Spheres Using Double-Nanoholes in a Gold Film, Nano Letters volume 11, issue 9, pp 3763–3767 (2011).
• Rodney Arthur Herring, A new Twist for Electron Beams, Science volume 14, number 6014, pp 155-156, 2011.
• Barmak Heshmat, Hamid Pahlevaninazhad, Matthew Craig Beard, Chris Papadopoulos, Thomas Edward Darcie, Single-walled carbon nanotubes as base material for THz photoconductive switching: a theoretical study from input power to output THz emission, Optics Express volume 19, number 16, pp 15077-15089, 2011.

Conference proceedings

• Mukherjee, I, Hajisalem, G., Gorden, R., Photonic crystal nanobeam cavities for single-step metal nanoparticle integration, 11th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), pp 969-972 (2011).
• G. Hajisalem, Y. Pang, and R. Gordon, Tuning the Resonance of Silver Nanoprisms by Plasmonic Hybridization with a Thin Gold Film, IEEE Nano 2011, Paper ThA2T6.5, Portland, USA, August 2011.
• Y. Pang, G. Hajisalem, and R. Gordon, Directivity-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Using a Parabolic Reflector Nanoantenna, IEEE Nano 2011, Paper TuPoT13.4, Portland, USA, August 2011. (Excellent Paper Award)
• The STEHM received the Macres Award for the Best Instrumentation/Software Paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2011, sponsored by Oxford Instruments: I. Massmann, S. Uhlemann, H. Muller, P. Hartel, J. Zach, M. Haider, Y. Taniguchi, D. Hoyle, and R. Herring, Realization of the First Aplanatic Transmission Electron Microscope, Microscopy and Microanalysis 2011
• R. Herring, A. Schuetze, E. Humphrey, Poster session A-17 (Electron Holography): Phase Masks for Electron Vortex Beams, Microscopy and Microanalysis volume 17, Supplement S1, pp. 96, 2011.
• G.G. Voldman, G.L. Albanesi, C.R. Barnes, G. Ortega and M.J. Genge, Ordovician Cosmic Spherules From the Cordillera Oriental of NW Argentina: Prelminary SEM and EDX Investigation, from Ordovician of the World, J.C. Gutiérrez-Marco, I. Rábano and D. García-Bellido (eds.), Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 14. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid. ISBN 978-84-7840-857-3.

Books

• Mihalynuk, M.G., Ambrose, T.K., Devine, F.A.M. and Johnston, S.T., Atlin Placer Gold Nuggets Containing Mineral and Rock Matter: Implications for Lode Gold Exploration, Geological Fieldwork 2010, Paper 2011-1, pp 65-72, Ministry of Energy and Mines, Canada.

Refereed articles

• Carlos Escobedo, Alexandre G. Brolo, Reuven Gordon, David Sinton, Flow-Through vs Flow-Over: Analysis of Transport and Binding in Nanohole Array Plasmonic Biosensors, Analytical Chemistry volume 82, issue 24, pp 10015-10020 (2010).
• Meikun Fan , Matthew Thompson , Maria Luiza Andrade and Alexandre G. Brolo, Silver Nanoparticles on a Plastic Platform for Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensing, Analytical Chemistry volume 82, issue 15, pp 6350-6352 (2010).

Refereed articles

• Fatemeh Eftekhari, Carlos Escobedo, Jacqueline Ferreira, Xiaobo Duan, Emerson M. Girotto, Alexandre G. Brolo, Reuven Gordon, David Sinton, Nanoholes as Nanochannels: Flow-through Plasmonic Sensing, Analytical Chemistry volume 81, issue 11, pp 4308-4311 (2009).
• Jacqueline Ferreira, Marcos J.L. Santos, Mohammad M. Rahman, Alexandre G. Brolo, Reuven Gordon, David Sinton, Emerson M. Girotto, Attomolar Protein Detection Using in-Hole Surface Plasmon Resonance, Journal of the American Chemical Society volume 131, issue 2, pp 436-437 (2009).