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DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nThe use of efficient sensing technologies appears 
 to be a field with tremendous activity mainly due to the connectivity of s
 ensing devices on global network (internet of things and services) enablin
 g immediate sharing of information valuable in a variety of fields such as
  industrial processes\, food quality control\, environmental monitoring an
 d biomedical assessment. In this context the development of optical sensin
 g devices appears to provide advantages such as high portability (small fo
 otprint\, little sample preparation) and\, in ideal conditions\, an excell
 ent specificity of detection.\n\nOur group aim at developing metamaterials
  interfaced with spectroscopy and optical methods to enhance the detection
  of a variety of materials and biomaterials using advanced nano- and micro
 -scales optical imaging. Specifically\, plasmon-mediated enhancements are 
 used to further facilitate i)-the increase of surface-sensitivity of spect
 roscopic measurements and to ii)- increase local spatial resolution of the
  optical measurement beyond the diffraction limit.\n\nIn this seminar\, we
  will review several research directions led in our group including the de
 sign and fabrication of advanced surface-enhanced platforms for Raman and 
 Infrared measurements\,1\,2 development of Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
  to probe biological processes at a sub 10 nm scale\,3 and the extension o
 f plasmon-mediated sensing to nonlinear optical processes such as second h
 armonic generation.4\n\n1 G. Wallace et al.\, Advanced Optical Materials\,
  2018\, 6\, 1701336.\n	2 M. Tabatabaei et al.\, Chemical Science\, 2016\, 7
 \, 575-582.\n	3 M. Tabatabaei et al. ACS Photonics\, 2015\, 2\, 752-759.\n	4
  R. Hou et al.\, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.\, 2016\, 18\, 7956-7965.\n\nBio:
 \n\nFrançois Lagugné-Labarthet is a Professor of Chemistry at Western Univ
 ersity since 2007. He held a Canada Research Chair in Nanoscale science an
 d Photonics from 2008 to 2018. Prior to Western\, he was a researcher at t
 he Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at the Université B
 ordeaux. His research themes encompass the study of the optical properties
  of nanoscale materials using a variety of original combinations of micros
 copy and optical techniques yielding nanoscale information with unpreceden
 ted sensitivity and spatial resolution. As the scientific director of the 
 Western Nanofabrication facility\, his mission is to maintain the state-of
 -the-art instrumentation for the fabrication and characterization of nanos
 cale devices\, enable new fabrication techniques with better specification
 s and promote the open-user access to the Western Nanofabrication Facility
 \, Ontario first open-user nanofabrication facility opened in 2004\, to a 
 variety of users from academia and industry. Since 2018\, F.Lagugné-Labart
 het is the Chair of NanoOntario Inc.\, a non-for-profit organization that 
 represents the interests of members from academic\, government\, industria
 l\, and financial sectors in the development of nanotechnologies in Ontari
 o.\n
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DTEND:20190115T193000Z
SUMMARY:Chemical Society Seminar: François Lagugné-Labarthet - Plasmonics f
 or Optical Sensing: Pushing the limits of sensitivity and spatial resoluti
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