Engineering light at the nanoscale: structural color filters and broadband perfect absorbers

C Ji, KT Lee, T Xu, J Zhou, HJ Park… - Advanced Optical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in fabrication and processing methods have spurred many breakthroughs
in the field of nanostructures that provide novel ways of manipulating light interaction on a …

Recent progresses on metamaterials for optical absorption and sensing: A review

Y Yao, Z Liao, Z Liu, X Liu, J Zhou, G Liu… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Metamaterials (MMs) offer great potential for achieving optical absorption due to their novel
electromagnetic properties. MM absorbers can overcome the thickness limitation and …

Ultra-wideband and wide-angle perfect solar energy absorber based on Ti nanorings surface plasmon resonance

F Zhou, F Qin, Z Yi, W Yao, Z Liu, X Wu… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar energy absorption is a very important field in photonics. The successful development
of an efficient, wide-band solar absorber is an extremely powerful driver in this field. We …

Broadband polarization-insensitive and wide-angle solar energy absorber based on tungsten ring-disc array

Z Yi, J Li, J Lin, F Qin, X Chen, W Yao, Z Liu, S Cheng… - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Nowadays, solar energy is considered one of the most clean energy sources. In addition, the
data from the literature tell us that its main radiation bandwidth is approximately 295–2500 …

Metasurface broadband solar absorber

AK Azad, WJM Kort-Kamp, M Sykora… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
We demonstrate a broadband, polarization independent, wide-angle absorber based on a
metallic metasurface architecture, which accomplishes greater than 90% absorptance in the …

A refractory metamaterial absorber for ultra-broadband, omnidirectional and polarization-independent absorption in the UV-NIR spectrum

Y Huang, L Liu, M Pu, X Li, X Ma, X Luo - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper, efficient ultra-broadband absorption from ultraviolet (UV) to near infrared (NIR)
is achieved using a metamaterial perfect absorber (MPA) with refractory constituents. Both …

[PDF][PDF] Reflective color filters and monolithic color printing based on asymmetric Fabry–Perot cavities using nickel as a broadband absorber

Z Yang, Y Zhou, Y Chen, Y Wang, P Dai, Z Zhang… - Adv. Opt …, 2016 - researchgate.net
Metal-based reflective color filters, which display various colors by selectively reflecting a
specific wavelength in the visible region, have attracted tremendous interest in recent years …

Ultra-broadband perfect absorber utilizing refractory materials in metal-insulator composite multilayer stacks

Y Li, Z Liu, H Zhang, P Tang, B Wu, G Liu - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We present an ultra-broadband perfect absorber composed of metal-insulator composite
multilayer (MICM) stacks by placing the insulator-metal-insulator (IMI) grating on the metal …

Broadband optical absorption based on single-sized metal-dielectric-metal plasmonic nanostructures with high-ε ″metals

W Wang, Y Qu, K Du, S Bai, J Tian, M Pan, H Ye… - Applied Physics …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We propose a broadband, efficient, ultra-thin metal-insulator-metal (MIM) absorber with a
simple single-sized disk configuration by utilizing metals with high imaginary part of …

Microscopic interference full‐color printing using grayscale‐patterned Fabry–Perot resonance cavities

Z Yang, Y Chen, Y Zhou, Y Wang, P Dai… - Advanced Optical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This study demonstrates a full‐color printing concept based on the interference effect in
pixelized metal–dielectric–metal Fabry–Perot (FP) resonance cavities. The pixel color for …