Strong Light-Matter interaction in nanohybrid architectures

The fabrication of hybrid systems composed by optical nanocavities and quantum dots represents a key approach to induce new,and distinctive physico-chemical properties, with significant implications in fields ranging from cavity quantum electrodynamics,to polariton chemistry. Here, strong coupling between surface plasmon polaritons and nanocrystal quasiparticles such as,excitons and phonons has been investigated through steady-state and time resolved spectroscopies, thus confirming,the possibility of altering the intrinsic nanomaterial response by means of properly tailored optical nanoresonators