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 …

Frontier nanoarchitectonics of graphitic carbon nitride based plasmonic photocatalysts and photoelectrocatalysts for energy, environment and organic reactions

A Kumar, P Choudhary, T Chhabra, H Kaur… - Materials Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The rational design and development of highly efficient and stable photocatalysts is a major
focus in the field of photocatalysis. The transformation of solar energy into chemical energy …

Numerical simulation of efficient solar absorbers and thermal emitters based on multilayer nanodisk arrays

Y Zheng, Z Yi, L Liu, X Wu, H Liu, G Li, L Zeng… - Applied Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, we design a solar absorber and thermal emitter with ultra-broadband perfect
absorption and high thermal radiation efficiency. The solar absorber has a high absorption …

A wide-band solar absorber based on tungsten nano-strip resonator group and graphene for near-ultraviolet to near-infrared region

Y Zheng, Z Wang, Z Yi, S Cheng, C Ma, B Tang… - Diamond and Related …, 2024 - Elsevier
Based on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, a wide-band solar absorber
(WA) is constructed and simulated in this paper. Due to the Fabry-Perot resonance (FPR) …

Ultra-broadband and wide-angle perfect solar absorber based on TiN nanodisk and Ti thin film structure

F Qin, X Chen, Z Yi, W Yao, H Yang, Y Tang… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
At present, solar energy is widely used as a kind of clean energy. The main solar radiation
range under AM 1.5 is about 300~ 3000 nm. In this paper, we designed an efficient, ultra …

Characterisation of oxygen defects and nitrogen impurities in TiO2 photocatalysts using variable-temperature X-ray powder diffraction

C Foo, Y Li, K Lebedev, T Chen, S Day, C Tang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
TiO2-based powder materials have been widely studied as efficient photocatalysts for water
splitting due to their low cost, photo-responsivity, earthly abundance, chemical and thermal …

Ultra-broadband perfect solar absorber by an ultra-thin refractory titanium nitride meta-surface

Z Liu, G Liu, Z Huang, X Liu, G Fu - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2018 - Elsevier
Electromagnetic wave absorbers with thinner structural thickness but with broader spectral
absorption bandwidth are more desirable for various applications in solar energy and …

Harvesting the loss: surface plasmon-based hot electron photodetection

W Li, JG Valentine - Nanophotonics, 2017 - degruyter.com
Although the nonradiative decay of surface plasmons was once thought to be only a
parasitic process within the plasmonic and metamaterial communities, hot carriers …

Thermal effects–an alternative mechanism for plasmon-assisted photocatalysis

Y Dubi, IW Un, Y Sivan - Chemical science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent experiments claimed that the catalysis of reaction rates in numerous bond-
dissociation reactions occurs via the decrease of activation barriers driven by non …

A numerical research of wideband solar absorber based on refractory metal from visible to near infrared

P Yu, X Chen, Z Yi, Y Tang, H Yang, Z Zhou, T Duan… - Optical Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
The range of solar radiation observed on Earth is about 295–2500 nm. Designing the
absorber within this range allows it to obtain as long an absorption band as possible to help …