Inverse design in nanophotonics

S Molesky, Z Lin, AY Piggott, W **, J Vucković… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Recent advancements in computational inverse-design approaches—algorithmic
techniques for discovering optical structures based on desired functional characteristics …

Physical limits in electromagnetism

P Chao, B Strekha, R Kuate Defo, S Molesky… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Photonic devices play an increasingly important role in advancing physics and engineering.
Although improvements in nanofabrication and computational methods have driven …

Superscattering emerging from the physics of bound states in the continuum

A Canós Valero, HK Shamkhi, AS Kupriianov… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
We study the Mie-like scattering from an open subwavelength resonator made of a high-
index dielectric material, when its parameters are tuned to the regime of interfering …

Topology optimization of photonic and phononic crystals and metamaterials: a review

W Li, F Meng, Y Chen, Y Li… - Advanced Theory and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the literature and trends on the design of
periodic microstructural composite materials including photonic crystals (PtCs), phononic …

Casting inorganic structures with DNA molds

W Sun, E Boulais, Y Hakobyan, WL Wang, A Guan… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Introduction The ability to manufacture inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) with arbitrarily
prescribed three-dimensional (3D) shapes and positional surface modifications is essential …

Semiconductor infrared plasmonics

T Taliercio, P Biagioni - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
The coupling between light and collective oscillations of free carriers at metallic surfaces
and nanostructures is at the origin of one of the main fields of nanophotonics: plasmonics …

Experimental observation of superscattering

C Qian, X Lin, Y Yang, X **ong, H Wang, E Li… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Superscattering, induced by degenerate resonances, breaks the fundamental single-
channel limit of the scattering cross section of subwavelength structures; in principle, an …

Fundamental limits to optical response in absorptive systems

OD Miller, AG Polimeridis, MT Homer Reid, CW Hsu… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
At visible and infrared frequencies, metals show tantalizing promise for strong
subwavelength resonances, but material loss typically dampens the response. We derive …

Low-loss plasmonic dielectric nanoresonators

Y Yang, OD Miller, T Christensen, JD Joannopoulos… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Material losses in metals are a central bottleneck in plasmonics for many applications. Here
we propose and theoretically demonstrate that metal losses can be successfully mitigated …

Perspective on near-field radiative heat transfer

M Pascale, M Giteau, GT Papadakis - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Although near-field radiative heat transfer was introduced in the 1950s, interest in the field
has only recently revived, as the effect promises improved performance in various …