Photothermal nanomaterials: a powerful light-to-heat converter

X Cui, Q Ruan, X Zhuo, X **a, J Hu, R Fu, Y Li… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
All forms of energy follow the law of conservation of energy, by which they can be neither
created nor destroyed. Light-to-heat conversion as a traditional yet constantly evolving …

[HTML][HTML] Optical meta-waveguides for integrated photonics and beyond

Y Meng, Y Chen, L Lu, Y Ding, A Cusano… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
The growing maturity of nanofabrication has ushered massive sophisticated optical
structures available on a photonic chip. The integration of subwavelength-structured …

Optically resonant dielectric nanostructures

AI Kuznetsov, AE Miroshnichenko, ML Brongersma… - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Nanoscale optics is usually associated with plasmonic structures made of
metals such as gold or silver. However, plasmonics suffers from high losses of metals …

A review of metasurfaces: physics and applications

HT Chen, AJ Taylor, N Yu - Reports on progress in physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Metamaterials are composed of periodic subwavelength metal/dielectric structures that
resonantly couple to the electric and/or magnetic components of the incident …

Electromagnetic theories of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

SY Ding, EM You, ZQ Tian, M Moskovits - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and related spectroscopies are powered
primarily by the concentration of the electromagnetic (EM) fields associated with light in or …

Nanostructure-based plasmon-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for surface analysis of materials

SY Ding, J Yi, JF Li, B Ren, DY Wu… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Since 2000, there has been an explosion of activity in the field of plasmon-enhanced Raman
spectroscopy (PERS), including surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), tip …

Subwavelength integrated photonics

P Cheben, R Halir, JH Schmid, HA Atwater, DR Smith - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
In the late nineteenth century, Heinrich Hertz demonstrated that the electromagnetic
properties of materials are intimately related to their structure at the subwavelength scale by …

Planar photonics with metasurfaces

AV Kildishev, A Boltasseva, VM Shalaev - Science, 2013 - science.org
Background Metamaterials (MMs) are smartly engineered structures with rationally
designed, nanostructured building blocks that allow us to build devices with distinct …

Ultralight, ultrastiff mechanical metamaterials

X Zheng, H Lee, TH Weisgraber, M Shusteff, J DeOtte… - Science, 2014 - science.org
The mechanical properties of ordinary materials degrade substantially with reduced density
because their structural elements bend under applied load. We report a class of …

Hyperbolic metamaterials

A Poddubny, I Iorsh, P Belov, Y Kivshar - Nature photonics, 2013 - nature.com
Electromagnetic metamaterials, artificial media created by subwavelength structuring, are
useful for engineering electromagnetic space and controlling light propagation. Such …