Metamaterials and metasurfaces: A review from the perspectives of materials, mechanisms and advanced metadevices

A Ali, A Mitra, B Aïssa - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Throughout human history, the control of light, electricity and heat has evolved to become
the cornerstone of various innovations and developments in electrical and electromagnetic …

Optical gas sensing: a review

J Hodgkinson, RP Tatam - Measurement science and technology, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The detection and measurement of gas concentrations using the characteristic optical
absorption of the gas species is important for both understanding and monitoring a variety of …

A 90-nm-thick graphene metamaterial for strong and extremely broadband absorption of unpolarized light

H Lin, BCP Sturmberg, KT Lin, Y Yang, X Zheng… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Broadband strong light absorption of unpolarized light over a wide range of angles in a large-
area ultrathin film is critical for applications such as photovoltaics, photodetectors, thermal …

Plasmonic and metamaterial structures as electromagnetic absorbers

Y Cui, Y He, Y Jin, F Ding, L Yang, Y Ye… - Laser & Photonics …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Electromagnetic absorbers have drawn increasing attention in many areas. A series of
plasmonic and metamaterial structures can work as efficient narrowband absorbers due to …

Taming the blackbody with infrared metamaterials as selective thermal emitters

X Liu, T Tyler, T Starr, AF Starr, NM Jokerst, WJ Padilla - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
In this Letter we demonstrate, for the first time, selective thermal emitters based on
metamaterial perfect absorbers. We experimentally realize a narrow band midinfrared (MIR) …

Thermal metasurfaces: complete emission control by combining local and nonlocal light-matter interactions

AC Overvig, SA Mann, A Alù - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
Metasurfaces have been enabling the miniaturization and integration of complex optical
functionalities within an ultrathin platform by engineering the scattering features of localized …

Additive manufacturing: unlocking the evolution of energy materials

A Zhakeyev, P Wang, L Zhang, W Shu… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The global energy infrastructure is undergoing a drastic transformation towards renewable
energy, posing huge challenges on the energy materials research, development and …

Ultrafast laser nanostructuring of photopolymers: A decade of advances

M Malinauskas, M Farsari, A Piskarskas, S Juodkazis - Physics Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
Research into the three-dimensional nanostructuring of photopolymers by ultrashort laser
pulses has seen immense growth over the last decade. In this paper, we review the basic …

Modified spontaneous emission in nanophotonic structures

M Pelton - Nature Photonics, 2015 - nature.com
Spontaneous emission is not an inherent property of a luminescent material; rather, it arises
due to interaction between the material and its local electromagnetic environment. Changing …

Realization of dynamic thermal emission control

T Inoue, MD Zoysa, T Asano, S Noda - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
Thermal emission in the infrared range is important in various fields of research, including
chemistry, medicine and atmospheric science,,. Recently, the possibility of controlling …