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20092024
most citedEngineering the Photonic Density of States with metamaterials

434 citations · 1.4k across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cond-mat.str-el2024

Non-local optical response of a multi-phased quantum material

Ding Zhang, Gururaj V. Naik

Light-matter interaction in quantum materials presents a new paradigm as light can tip the balance between many competing quantum many-body phases to result in new phenomena. Descr…

physics.optics2024

Sensing beyond the exceptional point for high detectivity

Zhichao Li, Ciril S. Prasad, Xielin Wang +2

Exceptional point (EP)-based optical sensors exhibit exceptional sensitivity but poor detectivity due to their acute sensitivity to perturbations such as noise. When the optical bu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 20 cited

Large optical tunability from charge density waves in 1T-TaS under incoherent illumination

Weijian Li, Gururaj V. Naik

Strongly correlated materials possess a complex energy landscape and host many interesting physical phenomena, including charge density waves (CDWs). CDWs have been observed and ex…

physics.optics2019★ 49 cited

Macroscopically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes as a Refractory Platform for Hyperbolic Thermal Emitters

Weilu Gao, Chloe F. Doiron, Xinwei Li +2

Refractory nanophotonics, or nanophotonics at high temperatures, can revolutionize many applications, including data storage and waste heat recovery. In particular, nanophotonic de…

physics.optics2015★ 41 cited

Photon Upconversion with Hot Carriers in Plasmonic Systems

Gururaj V. Naik, Jennifer A. Dionne

We propose a novel scheme of photon upconversion based on harnessing the energy of plasmonic hot carriers. Low-energy photons excite hot electrons and hot holes in a plasmonic nano…

physics.optics2013★ 174 cited

Ultra-compact modulators based on novel CMOS-compatible plasmonic materials

Viktoriia E. Babicheva, Nathaniel Kinsey, Gururaj V. Naik +3

We propose several planar layouts of ultra-compact plasmonic waveguide modulators that utilize alternative CMOS-compatible materials. The modulation is efficiently achieved by tuni…

physics.optics2012★ 1 cited

Plasmonic resonances in nanostructured transparent conducting oxide films

Jongbum Kim, Gururaj V. Naik, Naresh K. Emani +1

Transparent conducting oxides (TCO) are emerging as possible alternative constituent materials to replace noble metals such as silver and gold for low-loss plasmonic and metamateri…

physics.optics2011★ 343 cited

Negative refraction in Al:ZnO/ZnO metamaterial in the near-infrared

Gururaj V. Naik, Jingjing Liu, Alexander V. Kildishev +2

Noble metals such as gold and silver are the primary metallic building blocks of metamaterial devices. Making subwavelength-sized structural elements from these metals seriously li…

physics.optics2011★ 107 cited

A comparative study of semiconductor-based plasmonic metamaterials

Gururaj V. Naik, Alexandra Boltasseva

Recent metamaterial (MM) research faces several problems when using metal-based plasmonic components as building blocks for MMs. The use of conventional metals for MMs is limited b…

physics.optics2011★ 119 cited

Semiconductors for Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Gururaj V. Naik, Alexandra Boltasseva

Plasmonics has conventionally been in the realm of metal-optics. However, conventional metals as plasmonic elements in the near-infrared (NIR) and visible spectral ranges suffer fr…

physics.optics2011★ 41 cited

Oxides and nitrides as alternative plasmonic materials in the optical range

Gururaj V. Naik, Jongbum Kim, Alexandra Boltasseva

As alternatives to conventional metals, new plasmonic materials offer many advantages in the rapidly growing fields of plasmonics and metamaterials. These advantages include low in…

physics.optics2010★ 8 cited

Titanium nitride as a plasmonic material for visible wavelengths

Gururaj V. Naik, Jeremy L. Schroeder, Timothy D. Sands +1

The search for alternative plasmonic materials with improved optical properties over the traditional materials like silver and gold could ultimately lead to the long-awaited, real-…

physics.optics2010★ 434 cited

Engineering the Photonic Density of States with metamaterials

Z. Jacob*, J. Y. Kim*, G. V. Naik +2

The photonic density of states (PDOS), like its' electronic coun- terpart, is one of the key physical quantities governing a variety of phenom- ena and hence PDOS manipulation is t…

physics.optics2009★ 18 cited

Searching for Better Plasmonic Materials

Paul West, Satoshi Ishii, Gururaj Naik +3

Plasmonics is a research area merging the fields of optics and nanoelectronics by confining light with relatively large free-space wavelength to the nanometer scale - thereby enabl…