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

Efficient nonlinear optical interactions are essential for many applications in modern
photonics. However, they typically require intense laser sources and long interaction …

The recent rise of metamaterials opens new opportunities for absorbers due to their
designed electrodynamic properties and effects, allowing the creation of materials with …

Structures with near-zero parameters (for example, media with near-zero relative permittivity
and/or relative permeability, and thus a near-zero refractive index) exhibit a number of …

The ideal material for nanophotonic applications will have a large refractive index at optical
frequencies, respond to both the electric and magnetic fields of light, support large optical …

A solar absorber, under the sun, is heated up by sunlight. In many applications, including
solar cells and outdoor structures, the absorption of sunlight is intrinsic for either operational …

Materials research plays a vital role in transforming breakthrough scientific ideas into next‐
generation technology. Similar to the way silicon revolutionized the microelectronics …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201401874 testing. Recently, two demonstrations of fully operational
devices were performed with efficiencies around 0.8% and 3.2%.[29, 30] Although these …

The ability to control thermal radiation is of fundamental importance for a wide range of
applications. Nanophotonic structures, where at least one of the structural features are at a …

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