Resonant leaky modes in all-dielectric metasystems: Fundamentals and applications

L Huang, L Xu, DA Powell, WJ Padilla… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
All-dielectric metamaterials and metasurfaces have been demonstrated as ideal platforms to
manipulate electromagnetic waves and enhance light–matter interaction. Analogous to …

Efficient photon management with nanostructures for photovoltaics

B Hua, Q Lin, Q Zhang, Z Fan - Nanoscale, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Efficient photon management schemes are crucial for improving the energy conversion
efficiency of photovoltaic devices; they can lead potentially to reduced material usage and …

Pushing the limit of high-Q mode of a single dielectric nanocavity

L Huang, L Xu, M Rahmani, D Neshev… - Advanced …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
High-index dielectric resonators support different types of resonant modes. However, it is
challenging to achieve a high-Q factor in a single dielectric nanocavity due to the non …

On-chip infrared photonics with Si-Ge-heterostructures: What is next?

IA Fischer, M Brehm, M De Seta, G Isella, DJ Paul… - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The integration of Ge on Si for photonics applications has reached a high level of maturity:
Ge photodetectors are available on the Si platform in foundry processes, and Si/Ge …

Dual-band refractive index sensor with cascaded asymmetric resonant compound grating based on bound states in the continuum

X Liu, C Zhang, J Hu, H Han - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We propose a cascaded asymmetric resonant compound grating (ARCG) for high-
performance dual-band refractive index sensing. The physical mechanism of the sensor is …

[HTML][HTML] Resonant absorption in semiconductor nanowires and nanowire arrays: Relating leaky waveguide modes to Bloch photonic crystal modes

KT Fountaine, WS Whitney, HA Atwater - Journal of Applied Physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We present a unified framework for resonant absorption in periodic arrays of high index
semiconductor nanowires that combines a leaky waveguide theory perspective and that of …

Near-unity broadband absorption designs for semiconducting nanowire arrays via localized radial mode excitation

KT Fountaine, CG Kendall, HA Atwater - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We report design methods for achieving near-unity broadband light absorption in sparse
nanowire arrays, illustrated by results for visible absorption in GaAs nanowires on Si …

Atomically Thin MoS2 Narrowband and Broadband Light Superabsorbers

L Huang, G Li, A Gurarslan, Y Yu, R Kirste, W Guo… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We present a combined theoretical and experimental effort to enable strong light absorption
(> 70%) in atomically thin MoS2 films (≤ 4 layers) for either narrowband incidence with …

Dielectric core–shell optical antennas for strong solar absorption enhancement

Y Yu, VE Ferry, AP Alivisatos, L Cao - Nano letters, 2012 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate a new light trap** technique that exploits dielectric core–shell optical
antennas to strongly enhance solar absorption. This approach can allow the thickness of …

Mie resonance-enhanced light absorption in periodic silicon nanopillar arrays

FJ Bezares, JP Long, OJ Glembocki, J Guo… - Optics …, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Mie-resonances in vertical, small aspect-ratio and subwavelength silicon nanopillars are
investigated using visible bright-field µ-reflection measurements and Raman scattering …