Metamaterial, plasmonic and nanophotonic devices

F Monticone, A Alu - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of metamaterials has opened landscapes of possibilities in basic science, and a
paradigm shift in the way we think about and design emergent material properties. In many …

Dual-polarized reduction of dipole antenna blockage using mantle cloaks

JC Soric, A Monti, A Toscano, F Bilotti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We theoretically and experimentally explore the use of mantle covers to cloak dipole
antennas and reduce their blockage on nearby antennas. The proposed structures allow …

Optical antennas: controlling electromagnetic scattering, radiation, and emission at the nanoscale

F Monticone, C Argyropoulos… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging field of optical nanoantennas has been extending the reach of traditional
antenna technology to the realms of photonics, nanotechnology, and quantum …

Controlling scattering and absorption with metamaterial covers

JC Soric, R Fleury, A Monti, A Toscano… - … on Antennas and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We discuss the use of metasurfaces and plasmonic metamaterials to minimize the scattering
from receiving antennas and sensors, with the goal of maximizing their absorption efficiency …

Efficient and high-quality absorption enhancement using epsilon-near-zero cylindrical nano-shells constructed by graphene

SH Raad, M Afshari-Bavil, D Liu - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
This paper presents a detailed scattering analysis of a hollow-core plasmonic-shell
cylindrical wire to design an efficient, compact, narrowband, and reconfigurable optical …

Absorption and scattering in perfect thermal radiation absorber-emitter metasurfaces

Y Nishijima, N To, A Balčytis, S Juodkazis - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Detailed spectral analysis of radiation absorption and scattering behaviors of metasurfaces
was carried out via finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) photonic simulations. It revealed …

Structurally tunable resonant absorption bands in ultrathin broadband plasmonic absorbers

S Butun, K Aydin - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Light absorption is a fundamental optical process playing significantly important role in wide
variety of applications ranging from photovoltaics to photothermal therapy. Semiconductors …

Superscattering, superabsorption, and nonreciprocity in nonlinear antennas

L Cheng, R Alaee, A Safari, M Karimi, L Zhang… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We propose tunable nonlinear antennas based on an epsilon-near-zero material with a
large optical nonlinearity. We show that the absorption and scattering cross sections of the …

Overcoming black body radiation limit in free space: metamaterial superemitter

SI Maslovski, CR Simovski… - New Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Here, we demonstrate that the power spectral density of thermal radiation at a specific
wavelength produced by a body offinite dimensions set up in free space under afixed …

Resonant nanophotonic spectrum splitting for ultrathin multijunction solar cells

SA Mann, EC Garnett - Acs Photonics, 2015 - ACS Publications
We present an approach to spectrum splitting for photovoltaics that utilizes the resonant
optical properties of nanostructures for simultaneous voltage enhancement and spatial …