Thermoplasmonics in solar energy conversion: materials, nanostructured designs, and applications

B Yang, C Li, Z Wang, Q Dai - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The indispensable requirement for sustainable development of human society has forced
almost all countries to seek highly efficient and cost‐effective ways to harvest and convert …

Progress in thermoplasmonics for solar energy applications

G Liu, J Xu, T Chen, K Wang - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Plasmonics offer unprecedented control over light and stimulate fundamental research and
engineering applications in solar energy. The surface plasmon resonance is responsible for …

Advances in ultrafast plasmonics

AN Koya, M Romanelli, J Kuttruff… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In the past 20 years, we have reached a broad understanding of many light-driven
phenomena in nanoscale systems. The temporal dynamics of the excited states are instead …

Mie-resonant metaphotonics

VE Babicheva, AB Evlyukhin - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Mie-resonant metaphotonics is a rapidly developing field that employs the physics of Mie
resonances to control light at the nanoscale. Mie resonances are excited in high-refractive …

Recent progress in metasurface-enabled optical waveplates

Y Deng, Z Cai, Y Ding, SI Bozhevolnyi, F Ding - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
The polarization of light is crucial for numerous optical applications ranging from quantum
information processing to biomedical sensing due to the fundamental role of polarization as …

Challenges in plasmonic catalysis

E Cortés, LV Besteiro, A Alabastri, A Baldi… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The use of nanoplasmonics to control light and heat close to the thermodynamic limit
enables exciting opportunities in the field of plasmonic catalysis. The decay of plasmonic …

Full-range birefringence control with piezoelectric MEMS-based metasurfaces

C Meng, PCV Thrane, F Ding, SI Bozhevolnyi - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Dynamic polarization control is crucial for emerging highly integrated photonic systems with
diverse metasurfaces being explored for its realization, but efficient, fast, and broadband …

Ultrafast hot electron dynamics in plasmonic nanostructures: experiments, modelling, design

A Schirato, M Maiuri, G Cerullo, G Della Valle - Nanophotonics, 2023 - degruyter.com
Metallic nanostructures exhibit localized surface plasmons (LSPs), which offer
unprecedented opportunities for advanced photonic materials and devices. Following …

Challenges and prospects of plasmonic metasurfaces for photothermal catalysis

L Mascaretti, A Schirato, P Fornasiero, A Boltasseva… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
Solar-thermal technologies for converting chemicals using thermochemistry require extreme
light concentration. Exploiting plasmonic nanostructures can dramatically increase the …

Ultrafast, all optically reconfigurable, nonlinear nanoantenna

EAA Pogna, M Celebrano, A Mazzanti, L Ghirardini… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The enhancement of nonlinear optical effects via nanoscale engineering is a hot topic of
research. Optical nanoantennas increase light–matter interaction and provide …