Nonlinear optical effects in epsilon-near-zero media

O Reshef, I De Leon, MZ Alam, RW Boyd - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Efficient nonlinear optical interactions are essential for many applications in modern
photonics. However, they typically require intense laser sources and long interaction …

Active optical metasurfaces: comprehensive review on physics, mechanisms, and prospective applications

J Yang, S Gurung, S Bej, P Ni… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical metasurfaces with subwavelength thickness hold considerable promise for future
advances in fundamental optics and novel optical applications due to their unprecedented …

Plasmonic semiconductors: materials, tunability and applications

Y Guo, Z Xu, AG Curto, YJ Zeng… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Semiconductor plasmonics has become a frontier for light manipulation beyond the
diffraction limit, offering a broader spectral range and higher flexibility of plasmon …

Near-zero-index materials for photonics

N Kinsey, C DeVault, A Boltasseva… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The discovery, design and development of materials are critically linked to advances in
many areas of research, and optics is no exception. Recently, the spectral region in which …

From bulk to molecularly thin hybrid perovskites

K Leng, W Fu, Y Liu, M Chhowalla, KP Loh - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites have been intensively researched in the past decade
for their optoelectronic properties. The emergence of Ruddlesden–Popper perovskites …

Alternative plasmonic materials: beyond gold and silver

GV Naik, VM Shalaev, A Boltasseva - Advanced materials, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Materials research plays a vital role in transforming breakthrough scientific ideas into next‐
generation technology. Similar to the way silicon revolutionized the microelectronics …

Tunable metasurfaces based on active materials

T Cui, B Bai, HB Sun - Advanced Functional Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Metasurfaces, planer artificial materials composed of subwavelength unit cells, have shown
superior abilities to manipulate the wavefronts of electromagnetic waves. In the last few …

Epsilon‐near‐zero photonics: a new platform for integrated devices

X Niu, X Hu, S Chu, Q Gong - Advanced Optical Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Epsilon‐near‐zero (ENZ) photonics is the study of light–matter interactions in the
presence of structures with near‐zero permittivity and has been emerging as an important …

Epsilon-near-zero Al-doped ZnO for ultrafast switching at telecom wavelengths

N Kinsey, C DeVault, J Kim, M Ferrera, VM Shalaev… - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Transparent conducting oxides have recently gained great attention as CMOS-compatible
materials for applications in nanophotonics due to their low optical loss, metal-like behavior …

Oxides and nitrides as alternative plasmonic materials in the optical range

GV Naik, J Kim, A Boltasseva - Optical materials express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
As alternatives to conventional metals, new plasmonic materials offer many advantages in
the rapidly growing fields of plasmonics and metamaterials. These advantages include low …