Dr Francesco Masia

(he/him)

PhD, FHEA

2025

• Shang, L. et al., 2025. Time-resolved photon counting Fourier-transform micro-spectroscopy enables simultaneous Raman and fluorescence lifetime imaging. Light: Science & Applications 14 (1) 378. (10.1038/s41377-025-02020-8)

2024

• Alabdullah, F. et al. 2024. Radially polarized light in single particle optical extinction microscopy identifies silver nanoplates. Applied Physics Letters 124 181105. (10.1063/5.0188860)
• Borri, P. et al. 2024. High-sensitivity detection of chiro-optical effects in single nanoparticles by four-wave mixing interferometry. ACS Photonics (10.1021/acsphotonics.4c01782)
• Wu, Q. et al., 2024. Rapid identification of micro and nanoplastics by line scan Raman micro-spectroscopy. Talanta 266 (2) 125067. (10.1016/j.talanta.2023.125067)

2023

• Masia, F. et al. 2023. Low-energy electron microscopy intensity-voltage data – factorization, sparse sampling, and classification. Journal of Microscopy 289 (2), pp.91-106. (10.1111/jmi.13155)
• Pope, I. et al. 2023. Correlative light-electron microscopy using small gold nanoparticles as single probes. Light: Science & Applications 12 80. (10.1038/s41377-023-01115-4)

2022

• Alunni Cardinali, M. et al., 2022. Brillouin-Raman microspectroscopy for the morpho-mechanical imaging of human lamellar bone. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 19 (187)(10.1098/rsif.2021.0642)
• Masia, F. et al. 2022. Unsupervised analysis of FLIM-FRET data. Presented at: 2022 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) Vancouver, Canada 13-17 November. (10.1109/IPC53466.2022.9975544)
• Masia, F. et al. 2022. uFLIM - Unsupervised analysis of FLIM-FRET microscopy data. Medical Image Analysis 82 102579. (10.1016/j.media.2022.102579)
• Masia, F. , Monim, N. and Langbein, W. 2022. Wavelength agile quantum dot laser for lab-on-chip optical biosensors. Presented at: IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) Vancouver, Canada 13-17 November 2022. 2022 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) Proceedings. IEEE. , pp.1-2. (10.1109/IPC53466.2022.9975747)
• Santos Gomes, B. and Masia, F. 2022. Photochemical approach for multiplexed biofunctionalisation of gallium arsenide. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 625 , pp.743-749. (10.1016/j.jcis.2022.06.071)
• Santos Gomes, B. et al. 2022. Biofunctionalisation of gallium arsenide with neutravidin. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 608 (P3), pp.2399-2406. (10.1016/j.jcis.2021.10.135)

2021

• Boorman, D. et al. 2021. Hyperspectral CARS microscopy and quantitative unsupervised analysis of deuterated and non-deuterated fatty acid storage in human cells. The Journal of Chemical Physics 155 (22) 224202. (10.1063/5.0065950)
• Boorman, D. et al. 2021. Quantification of the nonlinear susceptibility of the hydrogen and deuterium stretch vibration for biomolecules in coherent Raman microspectroscopy. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 52 (9), pp.1540-1551. (10.1002/jrs.6164)
• Payne, L. M. et al. 2021. Quantitative morphometric analysis of single gold nanoparticles by optical extinction microscopy: material permittivity and surface damping effects. Journal of Chemical Physics 154 044702. (10.1063/5.0031012)
• Pope, I. et al. 2021. Background-free 3D four-wave mixing microscopy of single gold nanoparticles inside biological systems. Presented at: European Conference on Biomedical Optics 2021 Munich, Germany 20-24 June 2021. European Conferences on Biomedical Optics 2021 (ECBO). OSA Technical Digest Optical Society of America. , pp.EM3B.6.
• Pope, I. et al. 2021. Identifying subpopulations in multicellular systems by quantitative chemical imaging using label-free hyperspectral CARS microscopy. Analyst 146 (7), pp.2277-2291. (10.1039/D0AN02381G)

2020

• Karuna, A. et al. 2020. Quantitative imaging of B1 cyclin expression across the cell cycle using green fluorescent protein tagging and epi-fluorescence. Cytometry Part A 97 (10), pp.1066-1072. (10.1002/cyto.a.24038)
• Nahmad-Rohen, A. et al. 2020. Quantitative label-free imaging of lipid domains in single bilayers by hyperspectral coherent Raman scattering. Analytical Chemistry 92 (21)(10.1021/acs.analchem.0c03179)

2019

• Borri, P. et al. 2019. Imaging and tracking single plasmonic nanoparticles in 3D background-free with four-wave mixing interferometry. Presented at: SPIE BIOS San Francisco, CA, USA 2-7 February 2019. Proceedings Volume 10894, Plasmonics in Biology and Medicine XVI. Vol. 108940.Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). , pp.34. (10.1117/12.2507618)
• Brodu, A. et al., 2019. Fine structure of nearly isotropic bright excitons in InP/ZnSe colloidal quantum dots. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 10 (18), pp.5468-5475. (10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b01824)
• Jakubczyk, T. et al., 2019. Coherence and density dynamics of excitons in a single-layer MoS2 reaching the homogeneous limit. ACS Nano 13 (3), pp.3500-3511. (10.1021/acsnano.8b09732)
• Karuna, A. et al. 2019. Label-free volumetric quantitative imaging of human osteosarcoma cells by hyperspectral coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering. Presented at: SPIE BIOS San Francisco, California, US 2-7 Feb 2019. Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XIX. Vol. 10882.Proceedings of SPIE Bellingham, Washington: SPIE. , pp.108821P. (10.1117/12.2510277)
• Karuna, A. et al. 2019. Label-free volumetric quantitative imaging of the human somatic cell division by hyperspectral coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering. Analytical Chemistry 91 (4), pp.2813-2821. (10.1021/acs.analchem.8b04706)
• Regan, D. et al. 2019. Measuring sub-nanometre thickness changes during phase transitions of supported lipid bilayers with quantitative differential interference contrast microscopy. Presented at: SPIE BIOS San Francisco, California, US 2-7 Feb 2019. Quantitative Phase Imaging V. Vol. 10887.Proceedings of SPIE Bellingham, Washington: SPIE(10.1117/12.2510461)
• Scarpelli, L. et al. 2019. 99% beta factor and directional coupling of quantum dots to fast light in photonic crystal waveguides determined by spectral imaging. Physical Review B 100 (3) 035311. (10.1103/PhysRevB.100.035311)
• Scarpelli, L. et al. 2019. Propagation loss in photonic crystal waveguides embedding InAs/GaAs quantum dots determined by direct spectral imaging. Presented at: SPIE OPTO: San Francisco, CA, USA 2-7 February 2019. Proceedings Volume 10916, Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XXIII. Vol. 109161.Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). , pp.42. (10.1117/12.2510478)

2018

• Becker, M. A. et al. 2018. Long exciton dephasing time and coherent phonon coupling in CsPbBr2Cl perovskite nanocrystals. Nano Letters 18 (12), pp.7546-7551. (10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b03027)
• Borri, P. et al. 2018. Imaging and tracking single plasmonic nanoparticles in 3D background-free with four-wave mixing interferometry. Presented at: International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks Bucharest, Romania 1-5 Jul 2018. 20th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON). IEEE. (10.1109/ICTON.2018.8473874)
• Masia, F. et al. 2018. Label-free quantitative chemical imaging and classification analysis of adipogenesis using mouse embryonic stem cells. Journal of Biophotonics 11 (7) e201700219. (10.1002/jbio.201700219)
• Masia, F. et al. 2018. Bessel-beam hyperspectral CARS microscopy with sparse sampling: enabling high-content high-throughput label-free quantitative chemical imaging. Analytical Chemistry 90 (6), pp.3775-3785. (10.1021/acs.analchem.7b04039)
• Palombo, F. et al., 2018. Hyperspectral analysis applied to micro-Brillouin maps of amyloid-beta plaques in Alzheimer’s brain. Analyst 143 , pp.6095-6102. (10.1039/C8AN01291A)
• Pope, I. et al. 2018. Coherent Raman Scattering microscopy: technology developments and biological applications. Presented at: 20th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) Bucharest, Romania 1-5 Jul 2018. 20th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON). IEEE. (10.1109/ICTON.2018.8473706)

2017

• Scarpelli, L. et al. 2017. Resonantly excited exciton dynamics in two-dimensional MoSe2 monolayers. Physical Review B 96 (4) 045407. (10.1103/PhysRevB.96.045407)
• Zoriniants, G. et al., 2017. Background-free 3D nanometric localization and sub-nm asymmetry detection of single plasmonic nanoparticles by four-wave mixing interferometry with optical vortices. Physical Review X 7 (4) 041022. (10.1103/PhysRevX.7.041022)

2016

• Borri, P. , Langbein, W. and Masia, F. 2016. Surface plasmon four-wave mixing microscopy. US8817261 B2[Patent]
• Bradley, J. et al. 2016. Quantitative imaging of lipids in live mouse oocytes and early embryos using CARS microscopy. Development 143 , pp.2238-2247. (10.1242/dev.129908)
• Di Napoli, C. et al., 2016. Quantitative spatiotemporal chemical profiling of individual lipid droplets by hyperspectral CARS microscopy in living human adipose-derived stem cells. Analytical Chemistry 88 (7), pp.3677-3685. (10.1021/acs.analchem.5b04468)
• Karuna, A. et al. 2016. Hyperspectral volumetric coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy: quantitative volume determination and NaCl as non-resonant standard. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 47 (9), pp.1167-1173. (10.1002/jrs.4876)

2015

• Masia, F. et al. 2015. Hyperspectral image analysis for CARS, SRS, and Raman data. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 46 (8), pp.727-734. (10.1002/jrs.4729)
• Naeem, A. et al. 2015. Giant exciton oscillator strength and radiatively limited dephasing in two-dimensional platelets. Physical Review B 91 (12) 121302(R). (10.1103/PhysRevB.91.121302)
• Payne, L. et al. 2015. Optical micro-spectroscopy of single metallic nanoparticles: quantitative extinction and transient resonant four-wave mixing. Faraday Discussions 184 , pp.305-320. (10.1039/C5FD00079C)

2014

• Di Napoli, C. et al. 2014. Chemically-specific dual/differential CARS micro-spectroscopy of saturated and unsaturated lipid droplets. Journal of Biophotonics 7 (1-2), pp.68-76. (10.1002/jbio.201200197)
• Di Napoli, C. et al. 2014. Hyperspectral and differential CARS microscopy for quantitative chemical imaging in human adipocytes. Biomedical Optics Express 5 (5), pp.1378-1390. (10.1364/BOE.5.001378)
• Masia, F. , Borri, P. and Langbein, W. W. 2014. Sparse sampling for fast hyperspectral coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering imaging. Optics Express 22 (4), pp.4021-4028. (10.1364/OE.22.004021)

2013

• Masia, F. et al. 2013. Quantitative chemical imaging and unsupervised analysis using hyperspectral coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy. Analytical Chemistry 85 (22), pp.10820-10828. (10.1021/ac402303g)
• Masia, F. , Langbein, W. W. and Borri, P. 2013. Polarization-resolved ultrafast dynamics of the complex polarizability in single gold nanoparticles. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 15 (12), pp.4226-4232. (10.1039/C2CP43451B)
• Stephens, P. et al., 2013. Nondestructive imaging of stem cells and their differentiated progeny. Wound Repair and Regeneration 21 (6), pp.A84-A84.

2012

• Accanto, N. et al., 2012. Engineering the spin-flip limited exciton dephasing in colloidal CdSe/CdS quantum dots. Acs Nano 6 (6), pp.5227-5233. (10.1021/nn300992a)
• Masia, F. et al. 2012. Masia et al. reply. Physical Review Letters 109 (22) 229702. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.229702)
• Masia, F. et al. 2012. Spin-flip limited exciton dephasing in CdSe/ZnS colloidal quantum dots. Physical Review Letters 108 (8) 087401. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.087401)
• Masia, F. , Langbein, W. W. and Borri, P. 2012. Measurement of the dynamics of plasmons inside individual gold nanoparticles using a femtosecond phase-resolved microscope. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 85 (23), pp.235403-235413. (10.1103/PhysRevB.85.235403)
• Omari, A. et al., 2012. Role of interband and photoinduced absorption in the nonlinear refraction and absorption of resonantly excited PbS quantum dots around 1550 nm. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 85 (11), pp.115318-115328. (10.1103/PhysRevB.85.115318)

2011

• Langbein, W. W. et al. 2011. Differential CARS microscopy with linearly chirped femtosecond laser pulses. Presented at: Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XI San Francisco, CA, USA 23-25 January 2011. Published in: Periasamy, A. , König, K. and So, P. T. C. eds. Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XI. Vol. 7903.SPIE Proceedings SPIE. , pp.79031I. (10.1117/12.873872)
• Masia, F. et al. 2011. Exciton dephasing in lead sulfide quantum dots by X-point phonons. Physical Review B 83 (20) 201309. (10.1103/PhysRevB.83.201309)
• Masia, F. et al. 2011. Triply surface-plasmon resonant four-wave mixing imaging of gold nanoparticles. Presented at: Plasmonics in Biology and Medicine VIII San Francisco, CA, USA 23-24 January 2011. Published in: Vo-Dinh, T. and Lakowicz, J. R. eds. Plasmonics in Biology and Medicine VIII. Vol. 7911.Proceedings of SPIE S P I E - International Society for Optical Engineering. , pp.79110Y. (10.1117/12.873883)

2010

• Langbein, W. W. et al. 2010. Ultrafast gain dynamics in InP quantum-dot optical amplifiers. Applied Physics Letters 97 (21) 211103. (10.1063/1.3518715)
• Masia, F. et al. 2010. Four-wave mixing imaging to study protein entry and release in mammalian cells [Abstract]. Drug Discovery Today 15 (23-24), pp.1089. (10.1016/j.drudis.2010.09.377)
• Masia, F. et al. 2010. Four-wave-mixing imaging and carrier dynamics of PbS colloidal quantum dots. Physical Review B 82 (15) 155302. (10.1103/PhysRevB.82.155302)

2009

• Lumb, M. P. et al., 2009. Ultrafast absorption recovery dynamics of 1300 nm quantum dot saturable absorber mirrors. Applied Physics Letters 95 (4)(10.1063/1.3186081)
• Masia, F. , Langbein, W. W. and Borri, P. 2009. Multi-photon microscopy based on resonant four-wave mixing of colloidal quantum dots. Presented at: Colloidal quantum dots for biomedical applications IV San Jose, CA, USA 24 January 2009. Published in: Osinski, M. , Jovin, T. M. and Yamamoto, K. eds. Colloidal Quantum Dots for Biomedical Applications IV: Saturday 24 January 2009, San Jose, CA, USA. Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7189-3. Bellingham, WA: SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering. , pp.71890Z. (10.1117/12.807968)
• Masia, F. , Langbein, W. W. and Borri, P. 2009. Novel multi-photon microscopy based on resonant nonlinear optics of colloidal quantum dots. Physica Status Solidi. C 6 (4), pp.916-919. (10.1002/pssc.200880667)
• Masia, F. et al. 2009. Resonant four-wave mixing of gold nanoparticles for three-dimensional cell microscopy. Optics Letters 34 (12), pp.1816-1818. (10.1364/OL.34.001816)
• Sun, Y. et al., 2009. Fabrication and optical properties of thin silica-coated CdSe/ZnS quantum dots. Physica Status Solidi a Applications and Materials Science 206 (12), pp.2822-2825. (10.1002/pssa.200925250)

2008

• Hantke, K. et al., 2008. Zero-phonon lines of nitrogen-cluster states in GaNxAs1-x: H identified by time-resolved photoluminescence. Journal of Materials Science 43 , pp.4344-4347. (10.1007/s10853-008-2643-9)
• Masia, F. , Langbein, W. W. and Borri, P. 2008. Multiphoton microscopy based on four-wave mixing of colloidal quantum dots. Applied Physics Letters 93 (2) 021114. (10.1063/1.2959737)
• Pettriani, G. et al., 2008. Experimental evidence of different hydrogen donors in n -type InN. Physical Review B 77 125207. (10.1103/PhysRevB.77.125207)
• Polimeni, A. et al., 2008. Role of strain and properties of N clusters at the onset of the alloy limit in GaAs1-xNx. Physical Review B 77 155213.
• Polimeni, A. et al., 2008. Photoluminescene under magnetic field and hydrostatic pressure for probing the electronic properties of GaAsN. Physica Status Solidi a Applications and Materials Science 205 (1), pp.107-113. (10.1002/pssa.200777462)

2007

• Felici, M. et al., 2007. Influence of the host lattice on the O-H interaction in II-VI semiconductors. Aip Conference Proceedings 893 , pp.327-328.
• Felici, M. et al., 2007. Investigation of compositional disorder in GaAsN: H. Presented at: 28th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors - ICPS 2006 Vienna, Austria 24-28 July 2006. Published in: Jantsch, W. and Schaffler, F. eds. Physics of Semiconductors: 28th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors - ICPS 2006. Vol. 893.AIP Publishing. , pp.313-314. (10.1063/1.2729893)
• Hantke, K. et al., 2007. Time-resolved photoluminescence of nitrogen-cluster states in dilute Ga(NAs)/GaAs heterostructures. Presented at: CLEO 2007: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Baltimore, MD 6-11 May 207. 2007 Conference on Lasers & Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS 2007), Vols 1-5. IEEE. , pp.1-2. (10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452600)
• Losurdo, M. et al., 2007. Characteristics of InN grown on SiC under the In-rich regime by molecular beam heteroepitaxy. Applied Physics Letters 90 (1), pp.011910-011910. (10.1063/1.2424664)
• Masia, F. et al. 2007. Photoluminescence under magnetic field and hydrostatic pressure in GaAs1-xNx for probing the compositional dependence of carrier effective mass and gyromagnetic ratio. Aip Conference Proceedings 893 , pp.157-158.
• Pettinari, G. et al., 2007. Electron mass in dilute nitrides and its anomalous dependence on hydrostatic pressure. Physical Review Letters 98 146402. (10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.146402)

2006

• Felici, M. et al., 2006. Compositional disorder in GaAs1-xNx: H investigated by photoluminescence. Physical Review B 74 085203.
• Felici, M. et al., 2006. In-plane bandgap engineering by modulated hydrogenation of dilute nitride semiconductors. Advanced Materials 18 (15), pp.1993-1997. (10.1002/adma.200600487)
• Masia, F. et al. 2006. Interaction between conduction band edge and nitrogen states probed by carrier effective-mass measurements in GaAs1-xNx. Physical Review B 73 73201.
• Pettinari, G. et al., 2006. Influence of nitrogen-cluster states on the gyromagnetic factor of electrons in GaAs1-xNx. Physical Review B 74 245202.

2005

• Losurdo, M. et al., 2005. Modification of InN properties by interactions with hydrogen and nitrogen. MRS Proceedings 892 803. (10.1557/PROC-0892-FF08-03)
• Polimeni, A. et al., 2005. Carrier localization in (InGa)(AsN) alloys. Presented at: Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructure Materials IX 13 April 2005. Published in: Tsen, K. , Song, J. and Jiang, H. eds. Proc. SPIE 5725, Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructure Materials IX: Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructure Materials IX. Vol. 5725.SPIE. , pp.98-109. (10.1117/12.584649)

2004

• Polimeni, A. et al., 2004. Single carrier localization in InxGa1-xAs1-yNy investigated by magnetophotoluminescence. Applied Physics Letters 84 (13), pp.2295-2297. (10.1063/1.1688003)
• Polimeni, A. et al., 2004. Magnetophotoluminescence studies of InxGa1-xAs1-yNy: a measurement of the electron effective mass, exciton size, and degree of carrier localization. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 16 (31), pp.S3187-S3200. (10.1088/0953-8984/16/31/014)
• Polimeni, A. et al., 2004. Tunable variation of the electron effective mass and exciton radius in hydrogenated GaAs1-xNx. Physical Review B 69 041201 (R).

2003

• Baldassarri, G. et al., 2003. Magnetophotoluminescence studies of (InGa)(AsN)/GaAs heterostructures. Physical Review B 67 233304. (10.1103/PhysRevB.67.233304)
• Masia, F. et al. 2003. Early manifestation of localization effects in diluted Ga(AsN). Applied Physics Letters 82 (25), pp.4474-4476. (10.1063/1.1586787)
• Polimeni, A. et al., 2003. Hydrogen-related effects in diluted nitrides. Physica B: Condensed matter 340-2 , pp.371-376. (10.1016/j.physb.2003.09.064)