Enabling active nanotechnologies by phase transition: from electronics, photonics to thermotics

C Zheng, RE Simpson, K Tang, Y Ke, A Nemati… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Phase transitions can occur in certain materials such as transition metal oxides (TMOs) and
chalcogenides when there is a change in external conditions such as temperature and …

Nanophotonics shines light on hyperbolic metamaterials

A Aigner, JM Dawes, SA Maier, H Ren - Light, Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Hyperbolic metamaterials with a unique hyperbolic dispersion relation allow propagating
waves with infinitely large wavevectors and a high density of states. Researchers from Korea …

Nanostructured chromium-based broadband absorbers and emitters to realize thermally stable solar thermophotovoltaic systems

MA Abbas, J Kim, AS Rana, I Kim, B Rehman, Z Ahmad… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The efficiency of traditional solar cells is constrained due to the Shockley–Queisser limit, to
circumvent this theoretical limit, the concept of solar thermophotovoltaics (STPVs) has been …

Ultraviolet–visible multifunctional vortex metaplates by breaking conventional rotational symmetry

N Mahmood, J Kim, MA Naveed, Y Kim, J Seong… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Metasurfaces have shown remarkable potential to manipulate many of light's intrinsic
properties, such as phase, amplitude, and polarization. Recent advancements in …

Perfect control of diffraction patterns with phase-gradient metasurfaces

Y Wang, Y Yuan, G Yang, X Ding, Q Wu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Phase-gradient metasurfaces (PGMs) constitute an efficient platform for deflection of a beam
in a desired direction. According to the generalized Snell's law, the direction of the …

Gate-Tuning Hybrid Polaritons in Twisted α-MoO3/Graphene Heterostructures

Z Zhou, R Song, J Xu, X Ni, Z Dang, Z Zhao, J Quan… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Modulating anisotropic phonon polaritons (PhPs) can open new avenues in infrared
nanophotonics. Promising PhP dispersion engineering through polariton hybridization has …

Fano resonance in the plasmonic structure of MIM waveguide with r-shaped resonator for refractive index sensor

S Rohimah, H Tian, J Wang, J Chen, J Li, X Liu, J Cui… - Plasmonics, 2022 - Springer
A plasmonic structure of metal–insulator-metal (MIM) waveguide consisting of a baffle
waveguide and an r-shaped resonator is designed to produce Fano resonances. The finite …

Molding broadband dispersion in twisted trilayer hyperbolic polaritonic surfaces

C Zheng, G Hu, X Liu, X Kong, L Wang, CW Qiu - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent advancement in twisted layered metasurfaces can be employed to control the
nanoscale flow of light, including the exotic hyperbolic-to-elliptic topological transitions in …

2D silver-nanoplatelets metasurface for bright directional photoluminescence, designed with the local Kirchhoff's law

E Bailly, JP Hugonin, JR Coudevylle, C Dabard… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Semiconductor colloidal nanocrystals are excellent light emitters in terms of efficiency and
spectral control. They can be integrated with a metasurface to make ultrathin …

Monolithically structured van der Waals materials for volume-polariton refraction and focusing

Y Wu, J Liu, W Yu, T Zhang, H Mu, G Si, Z Cui, S Lin… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Polaritons, hybrid light and matter waves, offer a platform for subwavelength on-chip light
manipulation. Recent works on planar refraction and focusing of polaritons all rely on …