Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Thermal camouflage technologies, which aim at blending the infrared (IR) signature of
targets into the background to counter the IR detection, have witnessed increasing …

Sensors are perhaps the most important and integral components of our modern society.
With global warming and environmental pollution garnering ever-increasing attention, as …

Whispering gallery mode (WGM) optical microresonators have attracted intense interests in
the past decades. The combination of high quality factors (Q) and small mode volumes of …

Semiconductor nanowires have demonstrated exciting properties for nanophotonics,
sensors, energy technologies, and end-of-roadmap and beyond-roadmap electronic …

Quantum cascade lasers (QCL) are the first room temperature semiconductor laser source
for the mid-IR spectral region, triggering substantial development for the advancement of …

In the short space of 15years since their first demonstration, quantum cascade lasers have
become the most useful sources of tunable mid-infrared laser radiation. This Letter …

Advanced materials and processing techniques are based largely on the generation and
control of non-homogeneous microstructures, such as precipitates and grain boundaries. X …

In the last decade quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) have become the most widely used
source of mid-infrared radiation, finding large scale applications because of their wide …

The vast majority of gaseous chemical substances exhibit fundamental vibrational
absorption bands in the mid-infrared spectral region (≈ 2–25 µm), and the absorption of …