Publications
For the must up-to-date list, see my Google Scholar profile.
2025
- Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling in Materials
N.S. Mueller, E.B. Barros, and S. Reich
arXiv 2505.06373 (2025) - link
- Full Crystallographic Imaging of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Monolayers with Phonon-Enhanced Sum-Frequency Microscopy
N.S. Mueller*, A.P. Fellows*, B. John, A.E. Naclerio, C. Carbogno, K. Gharagozloo-Hubmann, D. Baláž, R.A. Kowalski, H.H. Heenen, C. Scheurer, K. Reuter, J.D. Caldwell, M. Wolf, P.R. Kidambi, M. Thämer, and A. Paarmann
arXiv 2504.15939 (2025) - link
- Optical Anisotropy of 2D van der Waals Materials
as chapter in F.J. García de Abajo et al. Roadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials
N.S. Mueller, A. Paarmann, P. Alonso-González, A.Y. Nikitin, A. Alú, T. Low, V. Volkov, L. Martín-Moreno, and J.D. Caldwell
arXiv 2504.04558 (2025) - link
- Ultraconfined THz Phonon Polaritons in Hafnium Dichalcogenides
R.A. Kowalski*, N.S. Mueller*, G. Álvarez-Pérez, M. Obst, K. Diaz-Granados, G. Carini, A. Senarath, S. Dixit, R. Niemann, R.B. Iyer, F.G. Kaps, J. Wetzel, J.M. Klopf, I.I. Kravchenko, M. Wolf, T.G. Folland, L.M. Eng, S.C. Kehr, P. Alonso-Gonzalez, A. Paarmann, and J.D. Caldwell
arXiv 2502.09909 (2025) - link
- Optomechanical Pumping of Collective Molecular Vibrations in Plasmonic Nanocavities
L.A. Jakob, A. Juan-Delgado, N.S. Mueller, S. Hu, R. Arul, R.A. Boto, R. Esteban, J. Aizpurua, and J.J. Baumberg
ACS Nano 19, 10977–10988 (2025) - link
- Electro-Optic Cavities for In-Situ Measurement of Cavity Fields
M.S. Spencer, J.M. Urban, M. Frenzel, N.S. Mueller, O. Minakova, M. Wolf, A. Paarmann, and S.F. Maehrlein
Light Sci. Appl. 14, 69 (2025) - link
- Electronically Perturbed Vibrational Excitations of the Luminescing Stable Blatter Radical
J. Bar-David, A. Daaoub, S. Chen, S.M. Sibug-Torres, S. Rocchetti, G. Kang, R.J. Davidson, R.J. Salthouse, C. Guo, N.S. Mueller, S. Sangtarash, M.R. Bryce, H. Sadeghi, and J.J. Baumberg
ACS Nano 19, 7650-7660 (2025) - link
- Suppressed Stokes Shifts and Hot Luminescence from Quantum Dots within Plasmonic Nanocavities
J. Huang, S. Hu, A. Roach, A. Crookes, N. S. Mueller, J. Ye, L. A. Jakob, Y. Xiong, S. Zhu, A. Rao, A. Demetriadou, L. Sun, and J. J. Baumberg
Adv. Opt. Mater. 2500275 (2025) - link
- Surface Phonon Polariton Ellipsometry
G. Carini, R. Niemann, N.S. Mueller, M. Wolf, and A. Paarmann
ACS Photonics 12, 792–800 (2025) - link
2024
- Unidirectional ray polaritons in twisted asymmetric stacks
J. Álvarez-Cuervo, M. Obst, S. Dixit, G. Carini, A.I.F. Tresguerres-Mata, C. Lanza, E. Terán-García, G. Álvarez-Pérez, L.F. Álvarez-Tomillo, K. Diaz-Granados, R. Kowalski, A.S. Senerath, N.S. Mueller, L. Herrer, J.M. De Teresa, S. Wasserroth, J.M. Klopf, T. Beechem, M. Wolf, L.M. Eng, T.G. Folland, A. Tarazaga Martín-Luengo, J. Martín-Sánchez, S.C. Kehr, A.Y. Nikitin, J.D. Caldwell, P. Alonso-González, and A. Paarmann
Nat. Commun. 15, 9042 (2024) - link
- Spectroscopic and Interferometric Sum-Frequency Imaging of Strongly Coupled Phonon Polaritons in SiC Metasurfaces
R. Niemann*, N.S. Mueller*, S. Wasserroth, G. Lu, M. Wolf, J.D. Caldwell, and A. Paarmann
Adv. Mater. 36, 2312507 (2024) - link
- Accelerated Molecular Vibrational Decay and Suppressed Electronic Nonlinearities in Plasmonic Cavities through Coherent Raman Scattering
L.A. Jakob, W.M. Deacon, R. Arul, B. de Nijs, N.S. Mueller, and J.J. Baumberg
Phys. Rev. B 109, 195404 (2024) - link
2023
- Photoluminescence Upconversion in Monolayer WSe2 Activated by Plasmonic Cavities Through Resonant Excitation of Dark Excitons
N.S. Mueller, R. Arul, G. Kang, A.P. Saunders, A.C. Johnson, A. Sánchez-Iglesias, S. Hu, L.A. Jakob, J. Bar-David, B. de Nijs, L.M. Liz-Marzán, F. Liu, and J.J. Baumberg
Nat. Commun. 14, 5726 (2023) - link
- Collective States in Molecular Monolayers on 2D Materials
S. Juergensen, M. Kessens, C. Berrezueta-Palacios, N. Severin, S. Ifland, J.P. Rabe, N.S. Mueller, and S. Reich
ACS Nano 17, 17350 (2023) - link
- Observation of Multi‐Directional Energy Transfer in a Hybrid Plasmonic‐Excitonic Nanostructure
T. Pincelli, T. Vasileiadis, S. Dong, S. Beaulieu, M. Dendzik, D. Zahn, S.‐E. Lee, H. Seiler, Y. Qi, R.P. Xian, J. Maklar, E. Coy, N.S. Mueller, Y. Okamura, S. Reich, M. Wolf, L. Rettig, and R. Ernstorfer
Adv. Mater. 2209100 (2023) - link
2022
- Collective Mid-Infrared Vibrations in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering
N.S. Mueller, R. Arul, L.A. Jakob, M.O. Blunt, T. Földes, E. Rosta, and J.J. Baumberg
Nano Lett. 22, 7254–7260 (2022) - link
- Giant mid-IR Resonant Coupling to Molecular Vibrations in Sub-nm Gaps of Plasmonic Multilayer Metafilms
R. Arul, D.-B. Grys, R. Chikkaraddy, N.S. Mueller, A. Xomalis, E. Miele, T.G. Euser, and J.J. Baumberg
Light Sci. Appl. 11, 1-9 (2022) - link
- Vibrational Stark Effects: Ionic Influence on Local Fields
D. Wright, S. Sangtarash, N.S. Mueller, Q. Lin, H. Sadeghi, and J.J. Baumberg
J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 4905-4911 (2022) - link
- Carbon Nanotubes for the Optical Far-Field Readout of Processes that are Mediated by Plasmonic Near-Fields
M. Glaeske, P. Kusch, N.S. Mueller, and A. Setaro
J. Phys. Chem. C 126, 5927-5934 (2022) - link
- Probing the Local Dielectric Function of WS2 on an Au Substrate by Near Field Optical Microscopy Operating in the Visible Spectral Range
O. Garrity, A. Rodriguez, N.S. Mueller, O. Frank, and P. Kusch
Appl. Surf. Sci. 574, 151672 (2022) - link
2021
- Plasmon-Polaritons in Nanoparticle Supercrystals: Microscopic Quantum Theory Beyond the Dipole Approximation
E.B. Barros, B.G. Vieira, N.S. Mueller, and S. Reich
Phys. Rev. B 104, 035403 (2021) - link
- Kinetics and Mechanism of Plasmon Driven Dehalogenation Reaction of Brominated Purine Nucleobases on Ag and Au
A. Dutta, R. Schuermann, S. Kogikoski, N.S. Mueller, S. Reich, and I. Bald
ACS Catal. 11 (13), 8370-8381 (2021) - link
- Strong Light-Matter Coupling in MoS2
P. Kusch, N.S. Mueller, M.T. Hartmann, and S. Reich
Phys. Rev. B 103, 235409 (2021) - link
- Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering and Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption by Plasmon Polaritons in Three-Dimensional Nanoparticle Supercrystals
N.S. Mueller, E. Pfitzner, Y. Okamura, G. Gordeev, P. Kusch, H. Lange, J. Heberle, F. Schulz, and S. Reich
ACS Nano 15, 5523-5533 (2021) - link
- Experimental Tests of Surface‐Enhanced Raman Scattering: Moving Beyond the Electromagnetic Enhancement Theory
S. Heeg, N.S. Mueller, S. Wasserroth, P. Kusch, and S. Reich
J. Raman Spectrosc. 52, 310-322 (2021) - link
2020
- Selective Excitation of Localized Surface Plasmons by Structured Light
I.A. Litvin, N.S. Mueller, and S. Reich
Opt. Express 28, 24262-24274 (2020) - link
- Structural Order in Plasmonic Superlattices
F. Schulz, O. Pavelka, F. Lehmkühler, F. Westermeier, Y. Okamura, N.S. Mueller, S. Reich, and H. Lange
Nat. Commun. 11, 3821 (2020) - link
- Deep Strong Light-Matter Coupling in Plasmonic Nanoparticle Crystals
N.S. Mueller, Y. Okamura, B.G.M. Vieira, S. Juergensen, H. Lange, E.B. Barros, F. Schulz, and S. Reich
Nature 583, 780-784 (2020) - link
- Selection Rules for Structured Light in Nanooligomers and Other Nanosystems
S. Reich, N.S. Mueller, and M. Bubula
ACS Photonics 7, 1537–1550 (2020) - link
- Dark Plasmon Modes for Efficient Hot Electron Generation in Multilayers of Gold Nanoparticles
D. Hoeing, F. Schulz, N.S. Mueller, S. Reich, and H. Lange
J. Chem. Phys. 152, 064710 (2020) - link
- Experimental Evidence for Nonthermal Contributions to Plasmon-Enhanced Electrochemical Oxidation Reactions
M. Rodio, M. Graf, F. Schulz, N.S. Mueller, M. Eich, and H. Lange
ACS Catal. 10, 2345-2353 (2020) - link
2019
- Plasmonic Properties of Close-Packed Metallic Nanoparticle Mono- and Bilayers
B.G.M. Vieira*, N.S. Mueller*, E.B. Barros, and S. Reich
J. Phys. Chem. C 123, 17951-17960 (2019) - link
- Direct Optical Excitation of Dark Plasmons for Hot Electron Generation
N.S. Mueller, B.G.M. Vieira, D. Höing, F. Schulz, E.B. Barros, H. Lange, and S. Reich
Faraday Discuss. 214, 159-173 (2019) - link
- Dynamics of Hot Electron Generation in Metallic Nanostructures: General Discussion
J. Aizpurua, M. Ashfold, F. Baletto, J. Baumberg, P. Christopher, E. Cortés, B. de Nijs, Y.D. Fernandez, J. Gargiulo, S. Gawinkowski, N. Halas, R. Hamans, B. Jankiewicz, J. Khurgin, P.V. Kumar, J. Liu, S. Maier, R.J. Maurer, A. Mount, N.S. Mueller, R. Oulton, M. Parente, J.Y. Park, J. Polanyi, J. Quiroz, S. Rejman, S. Schlücker, Z. Schultz, Y. Sivan, G. Tagliabue, M. Thangamuthu, L. Torrente-Murciano, X. Xiao, A. Zayats, and C. Zhan
Faraday Discuss. 214, 123-146 (2019) - link
- Theory of Hot Electrons: General Discussion
J. Aizpurua, F. Baletto, J. Baumberg, P. Christopher, B. de Nijs, P. Deshpande, Y.D. Fernandez, L. Fabris, S. Freakley, S. Gawinkowski, A. Govorov, N. Halas, R. Hernandez, B. Jankiewicz, J. Khurgin, M. Kuisma, P.V. Kumar, J. Lischner, J. Liu, A. Marini, R.J. Maurer, N.S. Mueller, M. Parente, J.Y. Park, S. Reich, Y. Sivan, G. Tagliabue, L. Torrente-Murciano, M. Thangamuthu, X. Xiao, and A. Zayats
Faraday Discuss. 214, 245-281 (2019) - link
- New Materials for Hot Electron Generation: General Discussion
J. Aizpurua, J. Baumberg, A. Boltasseva, P. Christopher, E. Cortes, S.B. Cronin, B.K. Dadhich, B. de Nijs, P. Deshpande, Y.D. Fernandez, L. Fabris, S. Gawinkowski, A. Govorov, N. Halas, J. Huang, B. Jankiewicz, R. Kamarudheen, J. Khurgin, T.K. Lee, J. Mahin, A. Marini, R.J. Maurer, N.S. Mueller, J.Y. Park, M. Rahaman, S. Schlücker, Z. Schultz, Y. Sivan, G. Tagliabue, M. Thangamuthu, H. Xu, and A. Zayats
Faraday Discuss. 214, 365-386 (2019) - link
- Applications in Catalysis, Photochemistry, and Photodetection: General Discussion
J. Aizpurua, J. Baumberg, V. Caps, E. Cortes, B. de Nijs, Y.D. Fernandez, L. Fabris, S. Freakley, S. Gawinkowski, D. Glass, J. Huang, B. Jankiewicz, J. Khurgin, P.V. Kumar, R.J. Maurer, P. McBreen, N.S. Mueller, J.Y. Park, J. Quiroz, S. Rejman, R.M. Romero Gómez, J. Salmon-Gamboa, S. Schlücker, Z. Schultz, A. Shukla, Y. Sivan, M. Thangamuthu, L. Torrente-Murciano, X. Xiao, H. Xu, and C. Zhan
Faraday Discuss. 214, 479-499 (2019) - link
- Modeling Surface-Enhanced Spectroscopy with Perturbation Theory
N.S. Mueller and S. Reich
Front. Chem. 7, 470 (2019) - link
- Resonant, Plasmonic Raman Enhancement of a-6T Molecules Encapsulated in Carbon Nanotubes
S. Wasserroth, S. Heeg, N.S. Mueller, P. Kusch, U. Hübner, E. Gaufrès, N.Y.-W. Tang, R. Martel, A. Vijayaraghavan, and S. Reich
J. Phys. Chem. C 123, 10578-10585 (2019) - link
2018
- Excitation-Tunable Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
N.S. Mueller, S. Juergensen, K. Höflich, S. Reich, and P. Kusch
J. Phys. Chem. C 122, 28273-28279 (2018) - link
- Dark Interlayer Plasmons in Colloidal Gold Nanoparticle Bi- and Few-Layers
N.S. Mueller*, B.G.M. Vieira*, F. Schulz, P. Kusch, V. Oddone, E.B. Barros, H. Lange, and S. Reich
ACS Photonics 5, 3962-3969 (2018) - link
- Combined Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Scattering-Type Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy
P. Kusch, N.M. Azpiazu, N.S. Mueller, S. Mastel, J.I. Pascual, and R. Hillenbrand
J. Phys. Chem. C 122, 16274-16280 (2018) - link
- Microscopic Theory of Optical Absorption in Graphene Enhanced by Lattices of Plasmonic Nanoparticles
N.S. Mueller and S. Reich
Phys. Rev. B 97, 235417 (2018) - link
- Graphene as a Local Probe to Investigate Near-Field Properties of Plasmonic Nanostructures
S. Wasserroth, T. Bisswanger, N.S. Mueller, P. Kusch, S. Heeg, N. Clark, F. Schedin, R. Gorbachev, and S. Reich
Phys. Rev. B 97, 155417 (2018) - link
- Evaluating Arbitrary Strain Configurations and Doping in Graphene with Raman Spectroscopy
N.S. Mueller, S. Heeg, M.P. Alvarez, P. Kusch, S. Wasserroth, N. Clark, F. Schedin, J. Parthenios, K. Papagelis, C. Galiotis, M. Kalbác, A. Vijayaraghavan, U. Huebner, R. Gorbachev, O. Frank, and S. Reich
2D Mater. 5, 015016 (2018) - link
2017
- Plasmonic Enhancement of SERS Measured on Molecules in Carbon Nanotubes
N.S. Mueller*, S. Heeg*, P. Kusch, E. Gaufrès, N. Tang, U. Hübner, R. Martel, A. Vijayaraghavan, and S. Reich
Faraday Discuss. 205, 85-103 (2017) - link
- Ultrasensitive and Towards Single Molecule SERS: General Discussion
J. Aizpurua, H. Arnolds, J. Baumberg, I. Bruzas, R. Chikkaraddy, M. Chisanga, P. Dawson, V. Deckert, I. Delfino, B. De Nijs, G. Di Martino, J. Edel, H. Fleming, S. Gawinkowski, F. Giorgis, R. Goodacre, D. Graham, M. Hardy, C. Heck, S. Heeg, K. Hewitt, L. Jamieson, A. Keeler, A. Królikowska, C. Kuttner, N. Lidgi-Guigui, C. Lightner, J. Lombardi, S. Mahajan, N.M. Sabanés, J.-F. Masson, N.S. Mueller, H. Muhamadali, K. Murakoshi, J. Popp, M. Porter, S. Reich, G. Schatz, Z.-Q. Tian, A. Tripathi, R. Van Duyne, X. Wang, A. Wark, K.K. Willets and M. Willner
Faraday Discuss. 205, 291-330 (2017) - link
- Symmetry-Derived Selection Rules for Plasmon-Enhanced Raman Scattering
A. Jorio, N.S. Mueller, and S. Reich
Phys. Rev. B 95, 155409 (2017) - link
- Dual-Scattering Near-Field Microscope for Correlative Nanoimaging of SERS and Electromagnetic Hotspots
P. Kusch, S. Mastel, N.S. Mueller, N. Morquillas, S. Heeg, R. Gorbachev, F. Schedin, U. Huebner, J.I. Pascual, S. Reich, and R. Hillenbrand
Nano Lett. 17, 2667-2673 (2017) - link
2016
- Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering as a Higher-Order Raman Process
N.S. Mueller, S. Heeg, and S. Reich
Phys. Rev. A 94, 023813 (2016) - link
- Requirement on Aromatic Precursor for Graphene Formation
K.G. Hubmann, N.S. Mueller, M. Giersig, C. Lotze, K.J. Franke, and S. Reich
J. Phys. Chem. C 120, 9821–9825 (2016) - link
2014
- Growing Graphene on Polycrystalline Copper Foils by Ultra-High Vacuum Chemical Vapor Deposition
N.S. Mueller, A.J. Morfa, D. Abou-Ras, V. Oddone, T. Ciuk, and M. Giersig
Carbon 78, 347-355 (2014) - link
* indicating equal contribution