Recent progress in the energy harvesting technology—from self-powered sensors to self-sustained IoT, and new applications

L Liu, X Guo, W Liu, C Lee - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
With the fast development of energy harvesting technology, micro-nano or scale-up energy
harvesters have been proposed to allow sensors or internet of things (IoT) applications with …

Advances in mid-infrared spectroscopy for chemical analysis

J Haas, B Mizaikoff - Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Infrared spectroscopy in the 3–20 μm spectral window has evolved from a routine laboratory
technique into a state-of-the-art spectroscopy and sensing tool by benefitting from recent …

Midinfrared spectroscopic analysis of aqueous mixtures using artificial-intelligence-enhanced metamaterial waveguide sensing platform

J Zhou, Z Zhang, B Dong, Z Ren, W Liu, C Lee - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
As miniaturized solutions, mid-infrared (MIR) waveguide sensors are promising for label-free
compositional detection of mixtures leveraging plentiful absorption fingerprints. However …

Larger-than-unity external optical field confinement enabled by metamaterial-assisted comb waveguide for ultrasensitive long-wave infrared gas spectroscopy

W Liu, Y Ma, X Liu, J Zhou, C Xu, B Dong, C Lee - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanophotonic waveguides that implement long optical pathlengths on chips are promising
to enable chip-scale gas sensors. Nevertheless, current absorption-based waveguide …

On-chip nanophotonics and future challenges

A Karabchevsky, A Katiyi, AS Ang, A Hazan - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
On-chip nanophotonic devices are a class of devices capable of controlling light on a chip to
realize performance advantages over ordinary building blocks of integrated photonics …

Mid-infrared silicon photonic waveguides and devices

Y Zou, S Chakravarty, CJ Chung, X Xu… - Photonics Research, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Silicon has been the material of choice of the photonics industry over the last decade due to
its easy integration with silicon electronics, high index contrast, small footprint, and low cost …

Progress of infrared guided-wave nanophotonic sensors and devices

Y Ma, B Dong, C Lee - Nano Convergence, 2020 - Springer
Nanophotonics, manipulating light–matter interactions at the nanoscale, is an appealing
technology for diversified biochemical and physical sensing applications. Guided-wave …

Tunable mid‐infrared phase‐change metasurface

W Dong, Y Qiu, X Zhou, A Banas… - Advanced Optical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The intense light–matter interaction of plasmonic metasurfaces provides an appealing
platform for optical sensing. To date, most metasurface sensors are not spectrally tuned …

Suspended silicon waveguide platform with subwavelength grating metamaterial cladding for long-wave infrared sensing applications

W Liu, Y Ma, Y Chang, B Dong, J Wei, Z Ren… - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
Abstract Long-wave infrared (LWIR, 6–14 µm) processes enormous potential for
chem/biosensing as it covers abundant molecular absorption fingerprints. Waveguides …

Optical trap** separation of chiral nanoparticles by subwavelength slot waveguides

L Fang, J Wang - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Enantiomer separation opens great opportunities to develop the technologies of
pharmaceutics, chemicals, and biomedicine, but faces daunting challenges. Here, we …