Research Interests

Colloidal self-assembly. Nanofabrication. Optics. Plasmonics. Plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy. Sensors.""""

Expertise

• among the first researchers in Romania to work on plasmonics of ordered nanostructured metal surfaces.
• developer of an original convective self-assembly method, named "Stop&Go Convective Self-Assembly" (ACS Nano 2011, 5, 9, 7137–7143).
• demonstrated for the first time SPR spectroscopy, SERS and MEF on the same plasmonic substrate (2008, PhD thesis).

International visibility

publons.com

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cosmin_Farcau2

Most Relevant Publications

V. Saracut, M. Giloan, M. Gabor, S. Astilean, C. Farcau, Polarization-Sensitive Linear Plasmonic Nanostructures via Colloidal Lithography with Uniaxial Colloidal Arrays, ACS Appl. Mat. Interf. 2013, 5, 1362. coordinated study made the journal cover

C. Farcau, N. M. Sangeetha, H. Moreira, B. Viallet, J. Grisolia, D. Ciuculescu-Pradines, L. Ressier, High-Sensitivity Strain Gauge Based on a Single Wire of Gold Nanoparticles Fabricated by Stop-and-Go Convective Self-Assembly, ACS Nano 2011, 5, 7137. a new convective self-assembly variant developed

C. Farcau, H. Moreira, B. Viallet, J. Grisolia, L. Ressier, Tunable Conductive Nanoparticle Wire Arrays Fabricated by Convective Self-assembly on Non-patterned Substrates, ACS Nano 2010, 4, 7275. identified a new mechanism involved in convective self-assembly of nano-colloids

C. Farcau, S. Astilean, Probing the unusual optical transmission of silver films deposited on two-dimensional regular arrays of polystyrene microspheres, J. Opt.A: Pure Appl. Opt. 2007, 9, S345. among the first reports on the EOT phenomenon on metal-coated microscphere arrays

C. Farcau, S. Astilean, Mapping the SERS Efficiency and Hot-Spots Localization on Gold Film over Nanospheres Substrates, J. Phys. Chem. C 2010, 114, 11717. my most cited paper, identifying the locations of SERS hot-spots