Electron-beam spectroscopy for nanophotonics

A Polman, M Kociak, FJ García de Abajo - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Progress in electron-beam spectroscopies has recently enabled the study of optical
excitations with combined space, energy and time resolution in the nanometre …

Thin‐metal‐film‐based transparent conductors: Material preparation, optical design, and device applications

C Zhang, C Ji, YB Park, LJ Guo - Advanced Optical Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Transparent conductors are essential elements in an array of optoelectronic devices. The
most commonly used transparent conductor–indium tin oxide (ITO) suffers from issues …

Optical excitations with electron beams: Challenges and opportunities

FJ Garcia de Abajo, V Di Giulio - ACS photonics, 2021 - ACS Publications
Free electron beams such as those employed in electron microscopes have evolved into
powerful tools to investigate photonic nanostructures with an unrivaled combination of …

Mesoscopic electrodynamics at metal surfaces: —From quantum-corrected hydrodynamics to microscopic surface-response formalism

NA Mortensen - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
Plasmonic phenomena in metals are commonly explored within the framework of classical
electrodynamics and semiclassical models for the interactions of light with free-electron …

Giant enhancement of third-harmonic generation in graphene–metal heterostructures

I Alonso Calafell, LA Rozema, D Alcaraz Iranzo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Nonlinear nanophotonics leverages engineered nanostructures to funnel light into small
volumes and intensify nonlinear optical processes with spectral and spatial control. Owing to …

Thickness-dependent drude plasma frequency in transdimensional plasmonic TiN

D Shah, M Yang, Z Kudyshev, X Xu, VM Shalaev… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic transdimensional materials (TDMs), which are atomically thin metals of precisely
controlled thickness, are expected to exhibit large tailorability and dynamic tunability of their …

Nonlocal near-field radiative heat transfer by transdimensional plasmonics

H Salihoglu, J Shi, Z Li, Z Wang, X Luo, IV Bondarev… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Using transdimensional plasmonic materials (TDPM) within the framework of fluctuational
electrodynamics, we demonstrate nonlocality in dielectric response alters near-field heat …

Anisotropy and modal hybridization in infrared nanophotonics using low-symmetry materials

M He, TG Folland, J Duan, P Alonso-González… - Acs …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Anisotropy has been a key property employed in the design of optical components for
hundreds of years. However, in recent years there has been growing interest in polaritons …

Large area single crystal gold of single nanometer thickness for nanophotonics

C Pan, Y Tong, H Qian, AV Krasavin, J Li, J Zhu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Two-dimensional single crystal metals, in which the behavior of highly confined optical
modes is intertwined with quantum phenomena, are highly sought after for next-generation …

Electron confinement–induced plasmonic breakdown in metals

P Das, S Rudra, D Rao, S Banerjee, A Indiradevi… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Plasmon resonance represents the collective oscillation of free electron gas density and
enables enhanced light-matter interactions in nanoscale dimensions. Traditionally, the …