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2025 Publications

Morpho-Enhanced Polarization Microscopy

Saaj Chattopadhyay, Nature Reviews Physics, 7, (604), 2025.

Guided-Mode-Resonant Colorimetric Metasurfaces for All-Optical and Nondestructive Structural Characterization of Polymeric Nanofibers

Paula Kirya, Justin Hochberg, Han Sol Kim, Zaid Haddadin, Samantha Bordy, Jiuk Byun, Jonathan Pokorski, Lisa V. Poulikakos, Nano Letters, 25, 26, 10449–10456, 2025.

Computational inverse design of acoustoplasmonic metasurfaces

Julia E. Holland, Nicholas Boechler, and Lisa V. Poulikakos, Applied Physics Letters 126, 251704, 2025.

3D-architected gratings for polarization-sensitive, nature-inspired structural color

Moisés H. Ibarra Miranda, Lars W. Osterberg, Dev H. Shah, Kartik Regulagadda and Lisa V. Poulikakos, Nanophotonics, 14, 547-558, 2025.

Corner cutting connects chiral colorimetry to net electric flux in lossless all-dielectric metasurfaces

Zaid Haddadin, Anna My Nguyen, Lisa V. Poulikakos, Optics Express, 33, 11731-11744, 2025.

Leveraging Optical Anisotropy of the Morpho Butterfly Wing for Quantitative, Stain‐Free, and Contact‐Free Assessment of Biological Tissue Microstructures

Paula Kirya, Aida Mestre‐Farrera, Jing Yang, Lisa V. Poulikakos, Advanced Materials, 37 (5), 11731-11744, 2025. Selected as front cover article, March 2025.

Acoustoplasmonic Metasurfaces for Tunable Acoustic Wavefront Shaping with Polarized Light

Julia E Holland, Jiuk Byun, Nicholas Boechler, Lisa V. Poulikakos, ACS Photonics, 12, 758-767, 2025. Published as part of ACS Photonics special issue “Rising Stars in Photonics”.

2024 Publications

Crafting chirality in three dimensions via a novel fabrication technique for bound states in the continuum metasurfaces

Zaid Haddadin, Anna My Nguyen, Lisa V Poulikakos, Light: Science & Applications, 12, 45, 2024.

Spatial wavefront shaping with a multipolar-resonant metasurface for structured illumination microscopy

Tamal Roy, Peter T. Brown, Douglas P Shepherd, Lisa V. Poulikakos, Optical Materials Express, 14, 1239-1252, 2024.

2023 Publications

Cutting corners to suppress high-order modes in Mie resonator arrays

Zaid Haddadin, Shahrose Khan, Lisa V. Poulikakos, ACS Photonics, 11, 187-195, 2023.

2022 Publications

Metasurfaces for optical detection of tissue and fibrous material anisotropy

Poulikakos, L.V. ; Dionne, J.A. ; Lawrence, M. ; Barton III, D.R.; US Patent 11, 487,180, 2022.

Polarization-based colour tuning of mixed colloidal quantum-dot thin films using direct patterning

De Leo, L. ; Rossinelli, A.A. ; Gallego-Marqués, P. ; Poulikakos, L.V.; Norris, D.J.; Prins, F. Nanoscale 14 (13), 4929-4934, 2022.

Nanophotonic materials: enabling targeted cancer diagnostics and therapeutics with light

Bordy, S.*; Byun, J.* ; Poulikakos, L.V; Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, Volume 37, 100852, ISSN 2211-3398, 2022. *co-first authors.

2021 Publications

Colorimetric Metasurfaces Shed Light on Fibrous Biological Tissue

Haddadin, Z.; Pike, T.; Moses, J.; Poulikakos, L. V. ; Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 9, 11619-11639, 2021.

This Article is part of the themed collections: 2023 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship Shortlisted Candidates; 2021 Journal of Materials Chemistry C Emerging Investigators.

Nanoscale Bouligand Multilayers: Giant Circular Dichroism of Helical Assemblies of Plasmonic 1D Nano-Objects

Hu, H.; Sekar, S.; Wu, W.; Battie, Y.; Lemaire, V.; Arteaga, O.; Poulikakos, L. V.; Norris, D.; Giessen, H.; Decher*, G.; Pauly*, M.; ACS Nano, 15, 8, 13653–13661, 2021. *co-corresponding authors.

The Beginner’s Guide to Chiral Plasmonics: Mostly Harmless Theory and the Design of Large-Area Substrates

Goerlitzer, E. S. A.*; Puri, A. S.; Moses, J. J.; Poulikakos, L. V.*; Vogel, N.*, Advanced Optical Materials, 2100378, 2021.

*co-corresponding authors.

2020 Publications

Guided-Mode-Resonant Dielectric Metasurfaces for Colorimetric Imaging of Material Anisotropy in Fibrous Biological Tissue

Poulikakos, L.V.*; Lawrence, M.; Barton, D.R.; Jeffrey, S.S.; Dionne, J.A.* ACS Photonics, 7, 11, 3216–3227, 20220.*co-corresponding authors.

Fluorescence-detected circular dichroism of a chiral molecular monolayer with dielectric metasurfaces

Solomon, M.L.; Abendroth, J.M.; Poulikakos, L.V.; Hu, J.; Dionne, J.A. Journal of the American Chemical Society 142 (43), 18304-18309, 2020.

Lisa V. Poulikakos’ Publications from Previous Positions

Nanophotonic Platforms for Chiral Sensing and Separation.

Solomon, M.∗; Saleh, A.∗; Poulikakos, L. V.; Abendroth, J. M.; Tadesse, L.; Dionne, J. A. Accounts of Chemical Research, 53, 588–598, (2020). Invited review article – selected to be featured as cover article March 2020. ∗authors contributed equally.

Optical Helicity and Optical Chirality in Free Space and in the Presence of Matter. 

Poulikakos, L. V.; Dionne, J. A.; Garcìa-Etxarri, A. Symmetry, Special Issue “Duality Symmetry”, 11, 1113 (2019). Invited research perspective – selected to be featured as cover article September 2019.

Chiral Light–Matter Interactions in the Near and Far Field.

Poulikakos, L.V.  Doctoral Thesis, ETH Zurich (2018).

Three-Dimensional Enantiomeric Recognition of Optically Trapped Single Chiral Nanoparticles.

Schnoering, G.; Poulikakos, L. V.; Rosales-Cabara, Y.; Canaguier-Durand, A.; Norris, D. J.; Genet, C. Physical Review Letters, 121, 023902 (2018).

Carbon Nanotube Chirality Determines Properties of Encapsulated Linear Carbon Chain.

Heeg, S.; Shi, L.; Poulikakos, L. V.; Pichler, T; Novotny, L. Nano Letters, 18, 5426–5431 (2018).

Chiral Light Design and Detection Inspired by Optical Antenna Theory.

Poulikakos, L. V., Thureja, P.; Stollmann, A.; De Leo, E.; Norris, D. J.  Nano Letters, 18, 4633–4640 (2018). Selected to be featured as cover article August 2018.

Polarization Multiplexing of Fluorescent Emission Using Multi-Resonant Plasmonic Antennas.

De Leo, E.; Cocina, A.; Tiwari, P.; Poulikakos, L. V.; Gallego, P. M.; le Feber, B.; Norris, D. J.; Prins, F.  ACS Nano, 11, 12167–12173 (2017).

Optical Chirality Flux as a Useful Far-Field Probe of Chiral Near Fields.

Poulikakos, L. V.; Gutsche, P.; McPeak, K. M.; Burger, S.; Niegemann, J.; Hafner, C.; Norris, D. J.  ACS Photonics, 9, 1619–1625 (2016).

Time-Harmonic Optical Chirality in Inhomogeneous Space.

Gutsche, P.; Poulikakos, L. V.; Hammerschmidt, M.; Burger, S.; Schmidt, F.  Proceedings SPIE 9756, Photonic and Phononic Properties of Engineered Nanostructures VI, 97560X (2016).

Ultraviolet Plasmonic Chirality from Colloidal Aluminum Nanoparticles Exhibiting Charge-Selective Protein Detection.

McPeak, K. M.; van Engers, C. D.; Bianchi, S.; Rossinelli, A.; Poulikakos, L. V.; Bernard, L.; Herrmann, S.; Kim, D. K.; Burger, S.; Blome, M.; Jayanti, S. V.; Norris, D. J.  Advanced Materials, 27, 6244–6250 (2015).

Subdiffusive Exciton Transport in Quantum Dot Solids.

Akselrod, G. M.∗; Prins, F.∗; Poulikakos, L. V.; Lee, E. M. Y.; Weidman, M. C.; Mork, A. J.; Willard, A. P.; Bulovic, V.; Tisdale, W. A.  Nano Letters, 6, 3556–3562 (2014).∗authors contributed equally.

Transition from Thermodynamic to Kinetic-Limited Excitonic Energy Migration in Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids.

Poulikakos, L. V.; Prins, F.; Tisdale, W. A.  The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 15, 7894–7900 (2014).

Synthesis of Calcium-Based, Al2O3-Stabilized Sorbents for CO2 Capture Using a Co-Precipitation Technique.

Kierzkowska, A. M.; Poulikakos, L. V.; Broda, M., Müller, C. R.  International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 15, 48–54 (2013).