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Nanoscale vibrational spectroscopy with visible and infrared light for biosensing
KATO Ryo[Designated Assistant Professor]
Division of Next-generation Photonics (Core Faculty)
2021, Ph.D. in Engineering, Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University
2018, M.S. in Engineering, Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University
2016, B.S. in Engineering, Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University
2019 Visiting researcher in Zenobi group, department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich
2021 Designated researcher, pLED, Tokushima University
Incumbent since June 2022
- Medical Photonics
- Visible
- Infrared
- Terahertz
- Deep ultraviolet
- Information Technology
- Medical
- Inspection
- Light source / Sensing
- etc.
- metamaterials
- plasmonics
- vibrational spectroscopy
- bio-sensing
Research Interests
Light and matter interactions allows to fetch various intrinsic properties of samples, such as chemical and physical properties. We develop cutting-edge visible and infrared optical spectroscopy and imaging techniques for bio-sensing and bio-imaging, particularly techniques based on Raman spectroscopy and infrared absorption spectroscopy and purse ways to detect and treat diseases at early stages.
We also leverage plasmonic metal nanostructures and metamaterials that confine optical fields at the nanometer scale and drastically enhance the fields for highly sensitive bio-sensing at the single molecule level and super-resolution optical imaging. We aim at providing new insight of biological functions and phenomena at the single molecules level via plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy.
