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Engineering a Full Gamut of Structural Colors in All-Dielectric Mesoporous Network Metamaterials
Alejandra Ruiz-Clavijo, Yoichiro Tsurimaki, Olga Caballero-Calero +4
Structural colors are a result of the scattering of certain frequencies of the incident light on micro- or nanoscale features in a material. This is a quite different phenomenon fr…
Efficiency Limits of Solar Energy Harvesting via Internal Photoemission in Carbon Materials
Svetlana V. Boriskina, Jiawei Zhou, Zhiwei Ding +1
We describe strategies to estimate the upper limits of the efficiency of photon energy harvesting via hot electron extraction from gapless absorbers. Gapless materials such as nobl…
Losses in plasmonics: from mitigating energy dissipation to embracing loss-enabled functionalities
Svetlana V. Boriskina, Thomas Alan Cooper, Lingping Zeng +7
Unlike conventional optics, plasmonics enables unrivalled concentration of optical energy well beyond the diffraction limit of light. However, a significant part of this energy is…
Semi-Transparent Solar Cell enabled by Frequency Selective Light Trapping
Duncan C. Wheeler, Yichen Shen, Yi Yang +5
We propose a frequency selective light trapping scheme that enables the creation of more visually-transparent and yet simultaneously more efficient semitransparent solar cells. A n…
Topological engineering of interfacial optical Tamm states for highly-sensitive near-singular-phase optical detection
Yoichiro Tsurimaki, Jonathan K. Tong, Victor N. Boriskin +5
We developed planar multilayered photonic-plasmonic structures, which support topologically protected optical states on the interface between metal and dielectric materials, known…
Hybrid optical-thermal antennas for enhanced light focusing and local temperature control
Svetlana V. Boriskina, Lee A. Weinstein, Jonathan K. Tong +2
Metal nanoantennas supporting localized surface plasmon resonances have become an indispensable tool in bio(chemical) sensing and nanoscale imaging applications. The high plasmon-e…
Entropic and Near-Field Improvements of Thermoradiative Cells
Wei-Chun Hsu, Jonathan K. Tong, Bolin Liao +3
A p-n junction maintained at above ambient temperature can work as a heat engine, converting some of the supplied heat into electricity and rejecting entropy by interband emission.…
Enhancement and tunability of near-field radiative heat transfer mediated by surface plasmon polaritons in thin plasmonic films
Svetlana V. Boriskina, Jonathan K. Tong, Yi Huang +3
The properties of thermal radiation exchange between hot and cold objects can be strongly modified if they interact in the near field where electromagnetic coupling occurs across g…
Heat meets light on the nanoscale
Svetlana V. Boriskina, Jonathan K. Tong, Wei-Chun Hsu +4
We discuss the state-of-the-art and remaining challenges in the fundamental understanding and technology development for controlling light-matter interactions in nanophotonic envir…
Hybrid optical-thermal devices and materials for light manipulation and radiative cooling
Svetlana V. Boriskina, Jonathan K. Tong, Wei-Chun Hsu +5
We report on optical design and applications of hybrid meso-scale devices and materials that combine optical and thermal management functionalities owing to their tailored resonant…
Infrared-Transparent Visible-Opaque Fabrics for Wearable Personal Thermal Management
Jonathan K. Tong, Xiaopeng Huang, Svetlana V. Boriskina +3
Personal cooling technologies locally control the temperature of an individual rather than a large space, thus providing personal thermal comfort while supplementing cooling loads…
Local field topology behind light localization and metamaterial topological transitions
Jonathan Tong, Alvin Mercedes, Gang Chen +1
We revisit the mechanisms governing the sub-wavelength spatial localization of light in surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes by investigating both local and global features in opt…
Thin-film 'Thermal Well' Emitters and Absorbers for High-Efficiency Thermophotovoltaics
Jonathan K. Tong, Wei-Chun Hsu, Yi Huang +2
A new approach is introduced to significantly improve the performance of thermophotovoltaic (TPV) systems by using low-dimensional thermal emitters and photovoltaic (PV) cells. By…
Plasmonic materials for energy: from physics to applications
Svetlana V. Boriskina, Hadi Ghasemi, Gang Chen
Physical mechanisms unique to plasmonic materials, which can be exploited for the existing and emerging applications of plasmonics for renewable energy technologies, are reviewed.…
Exceeding the solar cell Shockley-Queisser limit via thermal up-conversion of low-energy photons
Svetlana V. Boriskina, Gang Chen
Maximum efficiency of ideal single-junction photovoltaic (PV) cells is limited to 33% (for one sun illumination) by intrinsic losses such as band edge thermalization, radiative rec…