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 …

Optical metalenses: fundamentals, dispersion manipulation, and applications

Y He, B Song, J Tang - Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2022 - Springer
Metasurfaces, also known as 2D artificial metamaterials, are attracting great attention due to
their unprecedented performances and functionalities that are hard to achieve by …

Designing Metasurfaces for Efficient Solar Energy Conversion

L Mascaretti, Y Chen, O Henrotte, O Yesilyurt… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Metasurfaces have recently emerged as a promising technological platform, offering
unprecedented control over light by structuring materials at the nanoscale using two …

Using plasmonics and nanoparticles to enhance the efficiency of solar cells: review of latest technologies

MM Olaimat, L Yousefi, OM Ramahi - JOSA B, 2021 - opg.optica.org
With the advances in the field of plasmonics, techniques for trapping and localizing light
have become more feasible at the nanoscale. Several works have shown that plasmonics …

Thickness bound for nonlocal wide-field-of-view metalenses

S Li, CW Hsu - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Metalenses—flat lenses made with optical metasurfaces—promise to enable thinner,
cheaper, and better imaging systems. Achieving a sufficient angular field of view (FOV) is …

Developing an optimized metasurface for light trapping in thin-film solar cells using a deep neural network and a genetic algorithm

MA Shameli, A Fallah, L Yousefi - JOSA B, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, using a deep neural network and a genetic algorithm, an optimized digital
metasurface is designed to trap sunlight in thin-film solar cells. The deep neural network is …

Far-field subwavelength imaging using phase gradient metasurfaces

P Salami, L Yousefi - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Imaging subwavelength features of an object is in close relationship with extracting
information included in evanescent waves scattered from the object. These evanescent …

Light trapping in thin film crystalline silicon solar cells using multi-scale photonic topological insulators

MA Shameli, L Yousefi - Optics & Laser Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new method is proposed to trap sunlight in the active layer of thin film solar
cells. In the proposed technique, multi-scale photonic topological insulators (PTI) realized by …

Integrated optical beam steering device using switchable nanoantennas and a reflective metalens

V Ghaffari, L Yousefi - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In this paper, an integrated optical device is proposed in which a reflective meta-lens and
five switchable nano-antennas are combined to provide optical beam steering at the …

All-dielectric six-foci metalens for infrared polarization detection based on Stokes space

E Hou, Z Liang, X Shi, F Yang, Y Dong, Z Wu, R Dai… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The detection technology of infrared polarization has gained significant attention due to its
ability to provide better identification and obtain more information about the target. In this …