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Dongheon Ha, Yohan Yoon, Ik Jae Park, Paul M. Haney, Nikolai B. Zhitenev
We study photocurrent generation and collection of methylammonium lead iodide perovskite solar cells with nanoscale resolution using a near-field scanning photocurrent microscopy (NSPM) technique. For NSPM measurements, we employ a non-contact mode atomic
Rui Zhang, Robert Ilic, Yuxiang Liu, Vladimir Aksyuk
In this work, we design, fabricate and characterize monolithic, nanoscale Si3N4 tuning fork cavity optomechanical transducers with design enabled tuning of mechanical resonant frequencies and passive temperature compensation. Both frequency tuning and
Lisa Brown, Marcelo I. Davanco, Zhiyuan Sun, Andrey Kretinin, Yiguo Chen, Joseph R. Matson, Igor Vurgaftman, Nicholas Sharac, Alexander Giles, Michael Fogler, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Kostya Novoselov, Stefan Maier, Andrea Centrone, Joshua D. Caldwell
Because of its inherent crystal anisotropy, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) supports naturally hyperbolic phonon polaritons, i.e. polaritons that can propagate with arbitrarily large wavevectors within the material volume, thereby enabling optical
Nanoscale surface patterning commonly used to increase absorption of solar cells can adversely impact the open-circuit voltage due to increased surface area and recombination. Here, we demonstrate absorptivity and photocurrent enhancement using silicon
Electronic interactions in low-dimensional nanomaterial heterostructures can lead to novel optical response arising from exciton delocalization over the constituent materials. Similar phenomena have been suggested to arise between closely interacting
Resistance thermometry provides a time-tested method for taking temperature measurements that has been painstakingly developed over the last century. However, fundamental limits to resistance-based approaches along with a desire to reduce the cost of
Guillaume Fischer, Etienne Drahi, Martin Foldyna, Thomas Germer, Erik V. Johnson
Using a plasma to generate a surface texture with feature sizes on the order of nanometers ("nanotexturing") is a promising technique being considered for application in thin, high- efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells. This study investigates the
Yuzhang Liang, Hui Zhang, Wenqi Zhu, Amit Agrawal, Henri Lezec, Lixia Li, Wei Peng, Y Zou, Yanqing Lu, Ting Xu
With the development of advanced nanofabrication technologies over the last decade, plasmonic nanostructures have attracted wide attention for their potential in label-free biosensing applications. However, the sensing performance of nanostructured
Marcelo I. Davanco, Liu Jin, Luca Sapienza, Chen-Zhao Zhang, Jose Vinicius De Miranda Cardoso, Varun B. Verma, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Liu Liu, Kartik A. Srinivasan
Photonic integration is establishing itself as an enabling technology for photonic quantum science, offering considerably greater scalability, stability, and functionality than traditional bulk optics. Here, we develop a scalable, heterogeneous III-V /
Jeffrey T. Chiles, Sonia M. Buckley, Nima Nader, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin, Jeffrey M. Shainline
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a photonic routing architecture that can efficiently utilize the space of multi-plane (3D) photonic integration. A wafer with three planes of amorphous silicon waveguides was fabricated and characterized
Craig Copeland, Craig McGray, Jon Geist, James Alexander Liddle, Robert Ilic, Samuel Stavis
We fabricate and test subresolution aperture arrays as calibration devices for optical localization microscopy. An array pitch with a relative uncertainty of approximately three parts in ten thousand enables magnification calibration with subnanometer
Jungseok Chae, Sangmin An, Georg Ramer, Vitalie Stavila, Glenn Holland, Yohan Yoon, Alec Talin, Mark Allendorf, Vladimir Aksyuk, Andrea Centrone
The atomic force microscope (AFM) offers a rich observation window on the nanoscale, yet many dynamic phenomena are too fast and too weak for direct detection, urging measurement innovation. Integrated cavity-optomechanics is revolutionizing
Room-temperature single-photon emission at telecom wavelengths is realized by organic color centers chemically implanted on chirality-defined single-wall carbon nanotubes.
Zeeshan Ahmed, Nikolai N. Klimov, James R. Hands, James A. Fedchak
Here we examine the impact of vacuum levels on self-heating in photonic crystal cavity thermometers. Our results suggest that background gas pressure has a negligible impact on self- heating correction to the temperature-wavelength calibration.
Stephan Krapick, Marina Hesselberg, Varun Verma, Igor Vayshenker, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin
We present a single-photon detector providing system detection efficiencies of at least (86.7 ± 0.9) % from 1450 nm to 1640 nm. It comprises bilayer superconducting WSi nanowires in conjunction with all-dielectric structures for optical impedance matching
Jin Liu, Marcelo I. Davanco, Luca Sapienza, Kumarasiri Konthasinghe, Jose Vinicius De Miranda Cardoso, Jin Dong Song, Antonio Badolato, Kartik Srinivasan
This article describes fabrication and operation of a microfabricated photonic waveguide loop probe for nondestructive evanescent coupling and localized testing of nanophotonic devices and circuits. A microfabricated 300 nm x 260 nm silicon (Si) waveguide
A. Rahman, M H. Teimourpour, Kartik Srinivasan, Ramy El-Ganainy
We introduce a new type of synthetic saturable absorber based on quantum-inspired photonic arrays whose linear light transport characteristics can be derived via bosonic algebra. We demonstrate that under the nonlinear optical Kerr effect, these
Yu-Ming He, Oliver Iff, Nils Lundt, Vasilij Baumann, Marcelo I. Davanco, Kartik Srinivasan, Sven Hofling, Christian Schneider
Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenide materials emerged as a new material class to study excitonic effects in solid state. They benefit from the enormous coulomb correlations between electrons and holes, as a result of reduced dielectric screening
We report on our study of a temperature response of ring resonator based sensors and their interchangeability over a wide temperature range. Our results suggest that with a proper fabrication process control the interchangeability in photonic thermometers