Nanophotonic approaches for chirality sensing

LA Warning, AR Miandashti, LA McCarthy, Q Zhang… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Chiral nanophotonic materials are promising candidates for biosensing applications
because they focus light into nanometer dimensions, increasing their sensitivity to the …

Recent advances in ultrathin chiral metasurfaces by twisted stacking

Z Han, F Wang, J Sun, X Wang, Z Tang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial chiral nanostructures have been subjected to extensive research for their unique
chiroptical activities. Planarized chiral films of ultrathin thicknesses are in particular demand …

Breaking the limitation of polarization multiplexing in optical metasurfaces with engineered noise

B **ong, Y Liu, Y Xu, L Deng, CW Chen, JN Wang… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Noise is usually undesired yet inevitable in science and engineering. However, by
introducing the engineered noise to the precise solution of Jones matrix elements, we break …

Chiral bound states in the continuum in plasmonic metasurfaces

Y Tang, Y Liang, J Yao, MK Chen, S Lin… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) offer novel mechanisms to boost the quality factor (Q‐
factor) of resonances. Unfortunately, current studies on chiral BICs metasurfaces suffer from …

Optical metasurfaces for energy conversion

E Cortés, FJ Wendisch, L Sortino, A Mancini… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Deep-learning-enabled on-demand design of chiral metamaterials

W Ma, F Cheng, Y Liu - ACS nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
Deep-learning framework has significantly impelled the development of modern machine
learning technology by continuously pushing the limit of traditional recognition and …

Probabilistic representation and inverse design of metamaterials based on a deep generative model with semi‐supervised learning strategy

W Ma, F Cheng, Y Xu, Q Wen, Y Liu - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The research of metamaterials has achieved enormous success in the manipulation of light
in a prescribed manner using delicately designed subwavelength structures, so‐called meta …

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 …

Thermally switching between perfect absorber and asymmetric transmission in vanadium dioxide-assisted metamaterials

Y Ren, T Zhou, C Jiang, B Tang - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we propose a switchable bi-functional metamaterial device based on a hybrid
gold-vanadium dioxide (VO_2) nanostructure. Utilizing the property of a metal-to-insulator …

Intelligent nanophotonics: merging photonics and artificial intelligence at the nanoscale

K Yao, R Unni, Y Zheng - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
Nanophotonics has been an active research field over the past two decades, triggered by
the rising interests in exploring new physics and technologies with light at the nanoscale. As …