Optical metasurfaces for energy conversion

E Cortés, FJ Wendisch, L Sortino, A Mancini… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Ultrafast and nanoscale energy transduction mechanisms and coupled thermal transport across interfaces

A Giri, SG Walton, J Tomko, N Bhatt, MJ Johnson… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The coupled interactions among the fundamental carriers of charge, heat, and
electromagnetic fields at interfaces and boundaries give rise to energetic processes that …

Deterministic inverse design of Tamm plasmon thermal emitters with multi-resonant control

M He, JR Nolen, J Nordlander, A Cleri, NS McIlwaine… - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
Wavelength-selective thermal emitters (WS-EMs) are of interest due to the lack of cost-
effective, narrow-band sources in the mid-to long-wave infrared. WS-EMs can be realized …

Engineering the spectral and spatial dispersion of thermal emission via polariton–phonon strong coupling

G Lu, CR Gubbin, JR Nolen, T Folland, MJ Tadjer… - Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Strong coupling between optical modes can be implemented into nanophotonic design to
modify the energy–momentum dispersion relation. This approach offers potential avenues …

Polar semiconducting scandium nitride as an infrared plasmon and phonon–polaritonic material

KC Maurya, D Rao, S Acharya, P Rao, AIK Pillai… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
The interaction of light with collective charge oscillations, called plasmon–polariton, and with
polar lattice vibrations, called phonon–polariton, are essential for confining light at deep …

Coupled Tamm phonon and plasmon polaritons for designer planar multiresonance absorbers

M He, JR Nolen, J Nordlander, A Cleri, G Lu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wavelength‐selective absorbers (WS‐absorbers) are of interest for various applications,
including chemical sensing and light sources. Lithography‐free fabrication of WS‐absorbers …

Anisotropic absorber and tunable source of MIR radiation based on a black phosphorus-SiC metasurface

H Hajian, ID Rukhlenko, GW Hanson… - Photonics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
We propose a black phosphorus-silicon carbide (BP-SiC) metasurface with in-plane
structural symmetry that can act as both a nearly perfect anisotropic absorber and tunable …

[HTML][HTML] Surface phonon polaritons for infrared optoelectronics

CR Gubbin, S De Liberato, TG Folland - Journal of applied physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In recent years, there has been significant fundamental research into surface phonon
polaritons, owing to their ability to compress light to extremely small dimensions, low losses …

Near-Unity Light–Matter Interaction in Mid-Infrared van der Waals Metasurfaces

H Ling, M Nourbakhsh, VR Whiteside, JG Tischler… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Accessing mid-infrared radiation is of great importance for a range of applications, including
thermal imaging, sensing, and radiative cooling. Here, we study light interaction with …

Coupling of molecular vibration and metasurface modes for efficient mid-infrared emission

Y Nishijima, S Morimoto, A Balčytis… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We demonstrate extraordinarily spectrally selective narrowband mid-infrared radiation
absorbance and thermal emittance with resonant peak FWHM≤ 124 nm at λ= 5.73 μm …