Controlling the synthesis and assembly of silver nanostructures for plasmonic applications

M Rycenga, CM Cobley, J Zeng, W Li… - Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Coinage metals, such as Au, Ag, and Cu, have been important materials throughout
history.(1) Although in ancient cultures they were admired primarily for their ability to reflect …

Searching for better plasmonic materials

PR West, S Ishii, GV Naik, NK Emani… - Laser & photonics …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmonics is a research area merging the fields of optics and nanoelectronics by confining
light with relatively large free‐space wavelength to the nanometer scale‐thereby enabling a …

Fast underwater image enhancement for improved visual perception

MJ Islam, Y Xia, J Sattar - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we present a conditional generative adversarial network-based model for real-
time underwater image enhancement. To supervise the adversarial training, we formulate an …

Topological transitions in metamaterials

HNS Krishnamoorthy, Z Jacob, E Narimanov… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Light-matter interactions can be controlled by manipulating the photonic environment. We
uncovered an optical topological transition in strongly anisotropic metamaterials that results …

Plasmonics: merging photonics and electronics at nanoscale dimensions

E Ozbay - science, 2006 - science.org
Electronic circuits provide us with the ability to control the transport and storage of electrons.
However, the performance of electronic circuits is now becoming rather limited when digital …

Optical negative-index metamaterials

VM Shalaev - Nature photonics, 2007 - nature.com
Artificially engineered metamaterials are now demonstrating unprecedented
electromagnetic properties that cannot be obtained with naturally occurring materials. In …

Far-field optical hyperlens magnifying sub-diffraction-limited objects

Z Liu, H Lee, Y Xiong, C Sun, X Zhang - science, 2007 - science.org
The diffraction limit of light, which is causd by the loss of evanescent waves in the far field
that carry high spatial frequency information, limits the resolution of optical lenses to the …

Superlenses to overcome the diffraction limit

X Zhang, Z Liu - Nature materials, 2008 - nature.com
The imaging resolution of conventional lenses is limited by diffraction. Artificially engineered
metamaterials now offer the possibility of building a superlens that overcomes this limit. We …

Subwavelength artificial structures: opening a new era for engineering optics

X Luo - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the past centuries, the scale of engineering optics has evolved toward two opposite
directions: one is represented by giant telescopes with apertures larger than tens of meters …

Engineering metallic nanostructures for plasmonics and nanophotonics

NC Lindquist, P Nagpal, KM McPeak… - Reports on Progress …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Metallic nanostructures now play an important role in many applications. In particular, for the
emerging fields of plasmonics and nanophotonics, the ability to engineer metals on …