Katherine A. Willets

Professor of Chemistry
Temple University

NSF DMREF Co-PI

Katherine’s NSF DMREF Publications

Scattering vs Interference in Interferometric Scattering Spectroscopy of Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Sanjay Sridhar, Marie E. Nikolov, Elliot K. Beutler, Megan Knobeloch, Bianca Paranzino, Kelly L. Vernon, Yaxu Zhong, Xingchen Ye, Lane A. Baker, Sara E. Skrabalak, David J. Masiello, Katherine A. Willets

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 16, 4410-4418 (2025)

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Nonlinear effects in single-particle photothermal imaging

Claire A. West, Stephen A. Lee, Jesse Shooter, Emily K. Searles, Harrison J. Goldwyn, Katherine A. Willets, Stephan Link, David J. Masiello

Journal of Chemical Physics, 158, 24202 (2023)

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Toward Quantitative Nanothermometry Using Single-Molecule Counting

Phillip A. Reinhardt, Abigail P. Crawford, Claire A. West, Gabe DeLong, Stephan Link, David J. Masiello, Katherine A. Willets

Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 125, 12197-12205 (2021)

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$Wavelength-dependent photothermal imaging probes nanoscale temperature differences among sub-diffraction coupled plasmonic nanorods$

Wavelength-dependent photothermal imaging probes nanoscale temperature differences among sub-diffraction coupled plasmonic nanorods

Seyyed Ali Hosseini Jebeli, Claire A. West, Stephen A. Lee, Harrison J. Goldwyn, Connor R. Bilchak, Zahra Fakhraai, Katherine A. Willets, Stephan Link, David J. Masiello

Nano Letters, 21, 5386-5393 (2021)

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Active Far-Field Control of the Thermal Near-Field via Plasmon Hybridization

Ujjal Bhattacharjee, Claire A. West, Seyyed Ali Hosseini Jebeli, Harrison J. Goldwyn, Xiang-Tian Kong, Zhongwei Hu, Elliot K. Beutler, Wei-Shun Chang, Katherine A. Willets, Stephan Link, David J. Masiello

ACS Nano, 13, 9655-9663 (2019)

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Plasmon Heating Promotes Ligand Reorganization on Single Gold Nanorods

Xiaoyu Cheng, Taryn P. Anthony, Claire A. West, Zhongwei Hu, Vignesh Sundaresan, Aaron J. McLeod, David J. Masiello, Katherine A. Willets

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10, 1394-1401 (2019)

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Super-Resolution Imaging Reveals a Difference Between SERS and Luminescence Centroids

Maggie L. Weber, Jonathan P. Litz, David J. Masiello, Katherine A. Willets

ACS Nano, 6, 1839 (2012)

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