Beyond the visible: bioinspired infrared adaptive materials

J Yang, X Zhang, X Zhang, L Wang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Infrared (IR) adaptation phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and biological systems. Taking
inspiration from natural creatures, researchers have devoted extensive efforts for developing …

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 …

Electrically reconfigurable non-volatile metasurface using low-loss optical phase-change material

Y Zhang, C Fowler, J Liang, B Azhar… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Active metasurfaces promise reconfigurable optics with drastically improved compactness,
ruggedness, manufacturability and functionality compared to their traditional bulk …

Tunable nanophotonics enabled by chalcogenide phase-change materials

S Abdollahramezani, O Hemmatyar, H Taghinejad… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Nanophotonics has garnered intensive attention due to its unique capabilities in molding the
flow of light in the subwavelength regime. Metasurfaces (MSs) and photonic integrated …

Active optical metasurfaces: comprehensive review on physics, mechanisms, and prospective applications

J Yang, S Gurung, S Bej, P Ni… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical metasurfaces with subwavelength thickness hold considerable promise for future
advances in fundamental optics and novel optical applications due to their unprecedented …

Reconfigurable all-dielectric metalens with diffraction-limited performance

MY Shalaginov, S An, Y Zhang, F Yang, P Su… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Active metasurfaces, whose optical properties can be modulated post-fabrication, have
emerged as an intensively explored field in recent years. The efforts to date, however, still …

[HTML][HTML] Myths and truths about optical phase change materials: A perspective

Y Zhang, C Ríos, MY Shalaginov, M Li… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Uniquely furnishing giant and nonvolatile modulation of optical properties and chalcogenide
phase change materials (PCMs) have emerged as a promising material to transform …

Computation at the speed of light: metamaterials for all-optical calculations and neural networks

T Badloe, S Lee, J Rho - Advanced Photonics, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The explosion in the amount of information that is being processed is prompting the need for
new computing systems beyond existing electronic computers. Photonic computing is …

Smart materials for dynamic thermal radiation regulation

H Wei, J Gu, F Ren, L Zhang, G Xu, B Wang, S Song… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal radiation in the mid‐infrared region profoundly affects human lives in various fields,
including thermal management, imaging, sensing, camouflage, and thermography. Due to …

Recent progress and advances in electrochromic devices exhibiting infrared modulation

H Gong, W Li, G Fu, Q Zhang, J Liu, Y Jin… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Infrared electrochromic devices (IR-ECDs) that dynamically regulate the IR optical properties
of the objects have gained increasing attention in a wide range of applications such as …