Dr. Lauren McCarthy

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Ph.D. in Chemistry, Rice University (2021)
B.S. in Chemistry, University of Florida (2016)

Dissertation

Investigating the Polarization-Dependent Scattering of Coupled Plasmonic Nanoantennas in Confined Electromagnetic Waves

Publications

  1. L. A. McCarthy, O. Verma, G. N. Naidu, L. Bursi, A. Alabastri, P. Nordlander, and S. Link, Chiral Plasmonic Pinwheels Exhibit Orientation-Independent Linear Differential Scattering under Asymmetric Illumination, Chem. Biomed. Imaging, 1, 1, 30-39 (2023).
  2.  N. Gross, M. Madadi, B. Ostovar, P. D. Dongare, L. A. McCarthy, W.-Y. Chiang, W.-S. Chang, N. J. Halas, C. F. Landes, J. E. Sader, and S. Link, Strong Substrate Binding Modulates the Acoustic Quality Factors in Gold Nanodisks, J. Phys. Chem. C, 127, 10, 5054-5066 (2023). 
  3. L. A. Warning, A. Rafiei Miandashti, L. A. McCarthy, Q. Zhang, C. F. Landes, and S. Link, Nanophotonic Approaches for Chirality Sensing, ACS Nano, 15 (10), 15538 (2021). 
  4. R. Baiyasi, H. J. Goldwyn, L. A. McCarthy, C. A. West, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, D. J. Masiello, S. Link, and C. F. Landes, Coupled-Dipole Modeling and Experimental Characterization of Geometry-Dependent Trochoidal Dichroism in Nanorod Trimers, ACS Photonics, 8 (40), 1159 (2021). 
  5. A. Al-Zubeidi, L. A. McCarthy, A. Rafiei-Miandashti, T. S. Heiderscheit, and S. Link, Single-particle scattering spectroscopy: fundamentals and applications, Nanophotonics, 10 (6), 1621 (2021).
  6. L. A. McCarthy, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, and S.Link, Extrinsic Trochoidal Dichroism is Modulated by Nanoparticle Symmetry, J. Phys. Chem. C, 125 (7), 4092 (2021). 
  7. L. A. McCarthy, K. W. Smith, X. Lan, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, L. Bursi, A. Alabastri, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link, Polarized evanescent waves reveal trochoidal dichroism, PNAS, 117 (28) 16143 (2020). 
  8. R. Baiyasi, M. J. Gallagher, L. A. McCarthy, E. K. Searles, Q. Zhang, S. Link, and C. F. Landes, Quantitative Analysis of Nanorod Aggregation and Morphology from Scanning Electron Micrographs Using SEMseg, J. Phys. Chem. A, 124 (25), 5262 (2020).
  9. X. Lan, X. Zhou, L. A. McCarthy, A. O. Govorov, Y. Liu, and S. Link, DNA Enabled Chiral Gold Nanoparticle – Chromophore Hybrid Structure with Resonant Plasmon – Exciton Coupling Gives Unusual and Strong Circular Dichroism, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 141(49), 19336 (2019). 
  10. Q. Zhang, T. Hernandez, K. W. Smith, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, A. X. Dai, L. Warning, R. Baiyasi, L. A. McCarthy, H. Guo, D.-H. Chen, J. A. Dionne, C. F. Landes, and S. Link, Unraveling the origin of chirality from plasmonic nanoparticle-protein complexes, Science, 365 (6460), 1475 (2019). 
  11. K. W. Smith, L. A. McCarthy, A. Alabastri, L. Bursi, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link, Exploiting Evanescent Field Polarization for Giant Chiroptical Modulation from Achiral Gold Half-Rings, ACS Nano, 12 (11), 11657 (2018).