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 …

Metasurface‐Enhanced Infrared Spectroscopy: An Abundance of Materials and Functionalities

A John‐Herpin, A Tittl, L Kühner, F Richter… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Infrared spectroscopy provides unique information on the composition and dynamics of
biochemical systems by resolving the characteristic absorption fingerprints of their …

Low-loss, infrared and terahertz nanophotonics using surface phonon polaritons

JD Caldwell, L Lindsay, V Giannini, I Vurgaftman… - …, 2015 - degruyter.com
The excitation of surface-phonon-polariton (SPhP) modes in polar dielectric crystals and the
associated new developments in the field of SPhPs are reviewed. The emphasis of this work …

Sub-diffractional volume-confined polaritons in the natural hyperbolic material hexagonal boron nitride

JD Caldwell, AV Kretinin, Y Chen, V Giannini… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Strongly anisotropic media, where the principal components of the dielectric tensor have
opposite signs, are called hyperbolic. Such materials exhibit unique nanophotonic …

[HTML][HTML] Hyperbolic phonon-polaritons in boron nitride for near-field optical imaging and focusing

P Li, M Lewin, AV Kretinin, JD Caldwell… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Hyperbolic materials exhibit sub-diffractional, highly directional, volume-confined polariton
modes. Here we report that hyperbolic phonon polaritons allow for a flat slab of hexagonal …

Phonon-polaritonics: enabling powerful capabilities for infrared photonics

S Foteinopoulou, GCR Devarapu, GS Subramania… - …, 2019 - degruyter.com
Here, we review the progress and most recent advances in phonon-polaritonics, an
emerging and growing field that has brought about a range of powerful possibilities for mid …

Role of epsilon-near-zero substrates in the optical response of plasmonic antennas

J Kim, A Dutta, GV Naik, AJ Giles, FJ Bezares, CT Ellis… - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Radiation patterns and the resonance wavelength of a plasmonic antenna are significantly
influenced by its local environment, particularly its substrate. Here, we experimentally …

Semiconductor infrared plasmonics

T Taliercio, P Biagioni - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
The coupling between light and collective oscillations of free carriers at metallic surfaces
and nanostructures is at the origin of one of the main fields of nanophotonics: plasmonics …

Engineering the spectral and spatial dispersion of thermal emission via polariton–phonon strong coupling

G Lu, CR Gubbin, JR Nolen, T Folland, MJ Tadjer… - Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Strong coupling between optical modes can be implemented into nanophotonic design to
modify the energy–momentum dispersion relation. This approach offers potential avenues …

Atomic-scale photonic hybrids for mid-infrared and terahertz nanophotonics

JD Caldwell, I Vurgaftman, JG Tischler… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The field of nanophotonics focuses on the ability to confine light to nanoscale dimensions,
typically much smaller than the wavelength of light. The goal is to develop light-based …