Quasicrystalline arrays and moiré patterns in nematic liquid crystals for soft photonics

MS Kim, F Serra - Advanced Optical Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The search for new strategies for large‐scale, self‐assembled arrays of soft objects is key for
many applications in photonics and bottom‐up manufacturing. This work shows how liquid …

Investigation of quasi-periodic structures to increase the efficiency of thin-film silicon solar cells: A comparative study

A Abbasiyan, M Noori, H Baghban - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2019 - Elsevier
To boost the energy conversion efficiency in a thin-film Si solar cell, the effect of applying
simple and generalized Fibonacci and Thue-Morse quasi-periodic multilayers in the front …

Voltage controlled scattering from porous silicon Mie-particles in liquid crystals

LM Pappu, RJ Martin-Palma, B Martín-Adrados… - Journal of Molecular …, 2019 - Elsevier
Creating novel liquid crystalline (LC) photonic metamaterial structures is a highly promising
approach for the development of tunable photonic devices particularly when nanoporous …

Polarization-independent and tunable flat lenses based on graded index two-dimensional photonic crystals

M Alipour-Beyraghi, TF Khalkhali, A Bananej… - Optics …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we perform numerical analyses on polarization-independent and tunable
graded index lenses based on two-dimensional graded photonic crystals and utilizing liquid …

Analyte detection based on SPR in 12-fold quasi-periodic PCF

A Abbasiyan, M Noori, M Vakili, N Tourinezhad - Physica Scripta, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this article, an SPR sensor based on 12-fold quasi-periodic PCF composed of Ge-doped
silica is introduced for analyte detection. The outer surface of the cladding is covered by a 40 …

Investigation of TE-polarized photonic band gap properties in matallodielectric photonic crystals composed of metal coated dielectric cylinders

A Sedghi - Journal of Modern Optics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Using the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map method and generalization of this method, we have
been able to calculate the photonic band structure of two-dimensional (2D) metallodielectric …

Tuning full photonic band gap with plasma frequency in two-dimensional photonic crystals composed of anisotropic dielectric rods in plasma background

AH Ramezani, T Fathollahi Khalkhali, MR Moghadam - Journal of Optics, 2018 - Springer
In this study, we analyze full photonic band gap formation and properties of two-dimensional
photonic crystals with square lattice, composed of anisotropic tellurium rods with different …