Recent advances in fabrication and processing methods have spurred many breakthroughs
in the field of nanostructures that provide novel ways of manipulating light interaction on a …

Surface plasmons are collective oscillations of free electrons localized at surfaces of
structures made of metals. Since the surface plasmons induce fluctuations of electric charge …

Nanostructured photonic materials enable control and manipulation of light at
subwavelength scales and exhibit unique optical functionalities. In particular, plasmonic …

Radiative cooling, which aims at cooling objects by radiating heat into the outer space
through the atmosphere window, has garnered wide interests since it is a passive …

Perfect absorption is an interdisciplinary topic with a large number of applications, the
challenge of which consists of broadening its inherently narrow frequency-band …

Basic design rules are developed for the use of metallic nanostructures to realize broadband
absorption enhancements in thin-film solar cells. They are applied to a relevant and …

Photocatalytic platforms based on ultrathin reactive materials facilitate carrier transport and
extraction but are typically restricted to a narrow set of materials and spectral operating …

Plasmonic waveguides can guide light along metal–dielectric interfaces with propagating
wave vectors of greater magnitude than are available in free space and hence with …

We investigate the performance of bends and splitters in metal-dielectric-metal
subwavelength plasmonic waveguides. We show that bends and splitters with no additional …

CMOS compatible electrooptic plasmonic modulators are slated to be key components in
chip-scale photonic circuits. In this work, we investigate detailed design and optimization …