The recent rise of metamaterials opens new opportunities for absorbers due to their
designed electrodynamic properties and effects, allowing the creation of materials with …

The conventional membrane distillation (MD) process is accompanied by large energy
consumption, low thermal efficiency and inevitable requirements of centralized …

Broadband strong light absorption of unpolarized light over a wide range of angles in a large-
area ultrathin film is critical for applications such as photovoltaics, photodetectors, thermal …

Recent advances in fabrication and processing methods have spurred many breakthroughs
in the field of nanostructures that provide novel ways of manipulating light interaction on a …

Electromagnetic metastructures stand for the artificial structures with a characteristic size
smaller than the wavelength, which may efficiently manipulate the states of light. However …

Plasmonic nanostructures with strong light-matter interactions have been intensively
explored in the past decades. The plasmonic photothermal effect has garnered significant …

An ultrathin broadband metasurface-based absorber, comprised of tungsten nanowires, was
studied under the normal and oblique incidence of transverse electric (TE) and transverse …

Plasmonic metamaterials are artificial materials typically composed of noble metals in which
the features of photonics and electronics are linked by coupling photons to conduction …

Metamaterials (MMs) offer great potential for achieving optical absorption due to their novel
electromagnetic properties. MM absorbers can overcome the thickness limitation and …

Plasmonic nanostructures are extensively used building blocks for engineering optical
materials and device architectures. Plasmonic nanocomposites (pNCs) are an emerging …