The use of photons to directly or indirectly drive chemical reactions has revolutionized the
field of nanomaterial synthesis resulting in appearance of new sustainable laser chemistry …

We present an overview of the different processes that can result from focusing an ultrafast
laser light in the femtosecond–nanosecond time regime on a host of materials, eg, metals …

Black silicon (BSi) represents a very active research area in renewable energy materials.
The rise of BSi as a focus of study for its fundamental properties and potentially lucrative …

This paper reviews a new field of direct femtosecond laser surface nano/microstructuring
and its applications. Over the past few years, direct femtosecond laser surface processing …

Electromagnetic absorbers have drawn increasing attention in many areas. A series of
plasmonic and metamaterial structures can work as efficient narrowband absorbers due to …

Resonant plasmonic and metamaterial structures allow for control of fundamental optical
processes such as absorption, emission and refraction at the nanoscale. Considerable …

Anti-reflective coatings (ARCs) have evolved into highly effective reflectance and glare
reducing components for various optical and opto-electrical equipments. Extensive research …

Femtosecond laser micromachining has emerged in recent years as a new technique for
micro/nano structure fabrication because of its applicability to virtually all kinds of materials …

Laser processing implies the generation of a material function defined by the shape and the
size of the induced structures, being a collective effect of topography, morphology, and …

We report a hierarchically branched TiO2 nanorod structure that serves as a model
architecture for efficient photoelectrochemical devices as it simultaneously offers a large …