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 …

During the past few years, the optics and photonics communities have renewed their
attention toward transparent conducting oxides (TCOs), which for over two decades have …

The use of hot electrons generated from the decay of surface plasmons is a novel concept
that promises to increase the conversion yield in solar energy technologies. Titanium nitride …

Optical metasurfaces are nanoengineered architectures aiming at the functional control of
light propagation. In recent years, the performance of metasurfaces has been significantly …

We perform a comparative study of second-harmonic generation (SHG) from indium tin
oxide (ITO) and from titanium nitride (TiN) nanolayers excited in the near-infrared spectrum …

Titanium nitride (TiN) has recently emerged as an attractive alternative material for
plasmonics. However, the typical high-temperature deposition of plasmonic TiN using either …

Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials have attracted great interest due to their exotic linear and
nonlinear responses, which makes it significant to tune ENZ wavelengths for wavelength …

Titanium oxynitride (TiO x N y) thin films are fabricated using reactive magnetron sputtering.
The mechanism of their growth formation is explained, and their optical properties are …

Broadband perfect absorbers in the visible region have attracted considerable attention in
many fields, especially in solar thermophotovoltaic and energy harvesting systems …

Metamaterials have been designed to achieve a wide range of functionalities. Metamaterial
absorbers are of particular interest for various applications such as infrared detectors …