Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

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 discovery of the photoelectric effect by Heinrich Hertz in 1887 set the foundation for over
125 years of hot carrier science and technology. In the early 1900s it played a critical role in …

Circularly polarized light is utilized in various optical techniques and devices. However,
using conventional optical systems to generate, analyse and detect circularly polarized light …

Finding higher efficiency schemes for electron–hole separation is of paramount importance
for realizing more efficient conversion of solar energy in photovoltaic and photocatalytic …

To address the challenge in sustainable global development, considerable effort has been
made to produce fuels from renewable resources with photocatalysts and …

Among the many novel photocatalytic systems developed in very recent years, plasmonic
photocatalytic composites possess great potential for use in applications and are one of the …

While the nonradiative decay of surface plasmons was once thought to be only a parasitic
process that limits the performance of plasmonic devices, it has recently been shown that it …

Optical chiral metamaterials have recently attracted considerable attention because they
offer new and exciting opportunities for fundamental research and practical applications …

Plasmon resonances in metal nanostructures have been extensively harnessed for light
trap** in mesoporous solar cells (MSCs), including dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) …