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 …

Plasmonic colour generation

A Kristensen, JKW Yang, SI Bozhevolnyi… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Plasmonic colours are structural colours that emerge from resonant interactions between
light and metallic nanostructures. The engineering of plasmonic colours is a promising …

Self-assembly of highly efficient, broadband plasmonic absorbers for solar steam generation

L Zhou, Y Tan, D Ji, B Zhu, P Zhang, J Xu, Q Gan… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
The study of ideal absorbers, which can efficiently absorb light over a broad range of
wavelengths, is of fundamental importance, as well as critical for many applications from …

Gradient metasurfaces: a review of fundamentals and applications

F Ding, A Pors, SI Bozhevolnyi - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In the wake of intense research on metamaterials the two-dimensional analogue, known as
metasurfaces, has attracted progressively increasing attention in recent years due to the …

The revival of thermal utilization from the Sun: interfacial solar vapor generation

L Zhou, X Li, GW Ni, S Zhu, J Zhu - National Science Review, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Since solar energy is the ultimate energy resource and a significant amount of global energy
utilization goes through heat, there have been persistent efforts for centuries to develop …

Flexible thin-film black gold membranes with ultrabroadband plasmonic nanofocusing for efficient solar vapour generation

K Bae, G Kang, SK Cho, W Park, K Kim… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Solar steam generation has been achieved by surface plasmon heating with metallic
nanoshells or nanoparticles, which have inherently narrow absorption bandwidth. For …

Ultra-wideband solar absorber based on refractory titanium metal

P Yu, H Yang, X Chen, Z Yi, W Yao, J Chen, Y Yi… - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Electromagnetic wave absorbers with very long absorption spectra have become an
important target for optoelectronic materials and technology. In this paper, we propose a …

Solar absorber gel: localized macro‐nano heat channeling for efficient plasmonic Au nanoflowers photothermic vaporization and triboelectric generation

M Gao, CK Peh, HT Phan, L Zhu… - Advanced energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Plasmonic nanoparticles with outstanding photothermal conversion efficiency are promising
for solar vaporization. However, the high cost and the required intense light excitation of …

[PDF][PDF] Refractory plasmonics with titanium nitride: broadband metamaterial absorber

W Li, U Guler, N Kinsey, GV Naik, A Boltasseva… - Adv. Mater, 2014 - researchgate.net
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201401874 testing. Recently, two demonstrations of fully operational
devices were performed with efficiencies around 0.8% and 3.2%.[29, 30] Although these …

Strong-field nano-optics

P Dombi, Z Pápa, J Vogelsang, SV Yalunin, M Sivis… - Reviews of Modern …, 2020 - APS
The present status and development of strong-field nano-optics, an emerging field of
nonlinear optics, is discussed. A nonperturbative regime of light-matter interactions is …