Nanophotonics

News and Updates

NIST Chip Lights Up Optical Neural Network Demo

July 26, 2018

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made a silicon chip that distributes...

Through a Prism Brightly: A New Way to Measure the Light-Warping Properties of Hyperbolic Metamaterials

June 18, 2018

Manipulating light in a variety of ways—shrinking its wavelength and allowing it to travel freely in one direction...

Illustration of sunlight shining on solar panel covered with nanometer-scale beads.

Psst! A Whispering Gallery for Light Boosts Solar Cells

April 13, 2018

Trapping light with an optical version of a whispering gallery, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and...

Illustration of a plasmomechanical oscillator

Doing the Nano-Shimmy

April 09, 2018

Imagine a single particle, only one-tenth the diameter of a bacterium, whose miniscule jiggles induce sustained...

Publications

Invited Article: Tuning and stabilization of optomechanical crystal cavities through NEMS integration

July 31, 2018

Author(s):

Karen E. Grutter, Marcelo I. Davanco, Krishna Balram, Kartik A. Srinivasan

Nanobeam optomechanical crystals, in which localized GHz frequency mechanical modes are coupled to wavelength-scale optical modes, are being employed in a...

Humidity Responsive Photonic Sensor based on a Carboxymethyl Cellulose Mechanical Actuator

July 15, 2018

Author(s):

Matthew R. Hartings, Kevin O. Douglass, Zeeshan Ahmed

We describe an intuitive and simple method for exploiting humidity driven volume changes in carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) to fabricate a humidity responsive...

Subnanometer localization accuracy in widefield optical microscopy

July 11, 2018

Author(s):

Craig R. Copeland, Jon C. Geist, Craig D. McGray, Vladimir A. Aksyuk, James A. Liddle, Bojan R. Ilic, Samuel M. Stavis

The common assumption that precision is the limit of accuracy in localization microscopy and the typical absence of comprehensive calibration of optical...

Improving dielectric nanoresonator array coatings for solar cells

June 19, 2018

Author(s):

Dongheon Ha, Nikolai B. Zhitenev

We introduce single layer silicon dioxide (SiO2) nanosphere arrays as antireflection coatings (ARCs) on a gallium arsenide (GaAs) solar cell. We make macro-...

Nanophotonics

News and Updates

NIST Chip Lights Up Optical Neural Network Demo

Through a Prism Brightly: A New Way to Measure the Light-Warping Properties of Hyperbolic Metamaterials

Psst! A Whispering Gallery for Light Boosts Solar Cells

Doing the Nano-Shimmy

Publications

Invited Article: Tuning and stabilization of optomechanical crystal cavities through NEMS integration

Humidity Responsive Photonic Sensor based on a Carboxymethyl Cellulose Mechanical Actuator

Subnanometer localization accuracy in widefield optical microscopy

Improving dielectric nanoresonator array coatings for solar cells

Projects & Programs

Photonic Dosimetry

Designing the Nanoworld: Nanostructure, Nanodevices, and Nanooptics

Micro- and nano-optomechanical systems

Light-matter interactions in Semiconductor Nanostructures

Tools & Instruments

Sample Preparation and Metrology Tools