We investigated the plasmon-exciton interactions in an individual gold nanorod (GNR) with monolayer MoS₂ at room temperature with the single-particle spectroscopy technique. To control the plasmon-exciton interaction, we tuned the local surface plasmon resonance of an individual GNR in-situ by employing the photothermal reshaping effect. The scattering spectra of the GNR-MoS₂ hybrids exhibited two dips at the frequencies of the A and B excitons of monolayer MoS₂, which were caused by the plasmon-induced resonance energy transfer effect. The resonance energy transfer rate increased when the surface plasmon resonance of the nanorod matched well with the exciton transition energy. Also, we demonstrated that the plasmon-enhanced fluorescence process dominated the photoluminescence of the GNR-MoS₂ hybrid. These results provide a flexible way to control the plasmon-exciton interaction in an all-solid-state operating system at room temperature.

Current magnetic memories are based on writing and reading out the domains with opposite orientation of the magnetization vector. Alternatively, information can be encoded in regions with a different value of the saturation magnetization. The latter approach can be realized in principle with chemical order-disorder transitions in intermetallic alloys. Here, we study such transformations in a thin-film (35 nm) Fe₆₀Al₄₀alloy and demonstrate the formation of periodic magnetic nanostructures (PMNS) on its surface by direct laser interference patterning (DLIP). These PMNS are nonvolatile and detectable by magnetic force microscopy (MFM) at room temperature after DLIP with a single nanosecond pulse. We provide different arguments that the PMNS we observe originate from increasing magnetization in maxima of the interference pattern because of chemical disordering in the atomic lattice of the alloy at temperatures T higher than the critical temperature T_c for the order (B2)-disorder (A2) transition. Theoretically, our simulations of the temporal evolution of a partially ordered state at T > T_c reveal that the disordering rate is significant even below the melting threshold. Experimentally, we find that the PMNS are erasable with standard thermal annealing at T < T_c.