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

Electromagnetic absorbers have drawn increasing attention in many areas. A series of
plasmonic and metamaterial structures can work as efficient narrowband absorbers due to …

Achieving perfect absorption in few-layer two-dimensional (2D) materials plays a crucial role
in applications such as optoelectronics and sensing. However, the underlying mechanisms …

Solar steam generation has been achieved by surface plasmon heating with metallic
nanoshells or nanoparticles, which have inherently narrow absorption bandwidth. For …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201401874 testing. Recently, two demonstrations of fully operational
devices were performed with efficiencies around 0.8% and 3.2%.[29, 30] Although these …

Many living organisms track light sources and halt their movement when alignment is
achieved. This phenomenon, known as phototropism, occurs, for example, when plants self …

Resonant plasmonic and metamaterial structures allow for control of fundamental optical
processes such as absorption, emission and refraction at the nanoscale. Considerable …

We experimentally demonstrate a perfect plasmonic absorber at λ= 1.6 μm. Its polarization-
independent absorbance is 99% at normal incidence and remains very high over a wide …

We demonstrate that 100% light absorption can take place in a single patterned sheet of
doped graphene. General analysis shows that a planar array of small particles with losses …

High absorption efficiency is particularly desirable at present for various microtechnological
applications including microbolometers, photodectors, coherent thermal emitters, and solar …