Nanopatterning with photonic nanojets: Review and perspectives in biomedical research

S Surdo, M Duocastella, A Diaspro - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nanostructured surfaces and devices offer astounding possibilities for biomedical research,
including cellular and molecular biology, diagnostics, and therapeutics. However, the wide …

Photonic nanojets and their applications

A Darafsheh - Journal of Physics: Photonics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Dielectric microelements with circular symmetry have shown interesting optical properties:
photonic nanojets (PNJs) and whispering gallery modes (WGMs). They can confine light …

Advanced manufacturing of dielectric meta-devices

W Yang, J Zhou, DP Tsai, S Xiao - Photonics Insights, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Metasurfaces, composed of two-dimensional nanostructures, exhibit remarkable capabilities
in shaping wavefronts, encompassing phase, amplitude, and polarization. This unique …

Truncated titanium/semiconductor cones for wide-band solar absorbers

Z Liu, P Tang, X Liu, Z Yi, G Liu, Y Wang… - Nanotechnology, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A truncated Ti and Si cones metasurface has been proposed for wide-band solar absorber
(WSA), which produced a high average absorption of 94.7% in the spectral region from 500 …

Systematic study of the characteristics of the photonic nanojets formed by dielectric microcylinders

A Darafsheh, D Bollinger - Optics Communications, 2017 - Elsevier
We studied the characteristics of photonic nanojets formed by dielectric microcylinders over
the visible spectrum using FDTD numerical simulations. We varied a wide range of tuning …

From Material to Cameras: Low‐Dimensional Photodetector Arrays on CMOS

S Ansari, S Bianconi, CM Kang, H Mohseni - Small Methods, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in research on low‐dimensional
material with exceptional optoelectronic properties. While low‐dimensional materials offer …

Refractory materials and plasmonics based perfect absorbers

Y Yao, J Zhou, Z Liu, X Liu, G Fu, G Liu - Nanotechnology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In the past decades, metamaterial light absorbers have attracted tremendous attention due
to their impressive absorption efficiency and significant potential for multiple kinds of …

Photonic nanojet beam shaping by illumination polarization engineering

R Chen, J Lin, P Jin, M Cada, Y Ma - Optics Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Photonic Nanojets (PNJs) have attracted considerable research attention in the
fields of super-resolution optical microscopy, nano-photolithography, and single molecule …

Geometric effect on photonic nanojet generated by dielectric microcylinders with non-cylindrical cross-sections

CY Liu, FC Lin - Optics Communications, 2016 - Elsevier
We experimentally report the geometric effect on photonic nanojet generated by dielectric
microcylinders with non-cylindrical cross-sections. The non-cylindrical cross-sections …

Photonic nanojets and whispering gallery modes in smooth and corrugated micro-cylinders under point-source illumination

I Mahariq, T Abdeljawad, AS Karar, SA Alboon, H Kurt… - Photonics, 2020 - mdpi.com
We numerically investigate the generation of photonic nanojets (PNJs) and the excitation of
whispering gallery modes (WGMs) supported by both smooth and corrugated dielectric …