Nanophotonics

News and Updates

New Device Widens Light Beams by 400 Times, Broadening Possibilities in Science and Technology

November 27, 2018

By using light waves instead of electric current to transmit data, photonic chips—circuits for light—have advanced...

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...

Publications

Photonic waveguide to free-space Gaussian beam extreme mode converter

October 10, 2018

Author(s):

Sangsik Kim, Daron A. Westly, Brian J. Roxworthy, Qing Li, Alexander Yulaev, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Vladimir A. Aksyuk

Integration of photonic chips with atomic, micromechanical, chemical and biological systems can advance science and open many possibilities in chip-scale...

Improving dielectric nano-resonator-based antireflection coatings for photovoltaics

September 19, 2018

Author(s):

Dongheon Ha, Nikolai B. Zhitenev

We demonstrate optical and electrical property enhancement of solar cells using a variety of dielectric nano-resonator array coatings. First, we study close-...

Nanoimaging of local photocurrent in hybrid perovskite solar cells via near-field scanning photocurrent microscopy

September 14, 2018

Author(s):

Dongheon Ha, Yohan Yoon, Ik Jae Park, Paul M. Haney, Nikolai B. Zhitenev

Photocurrent generation of methylammonium lead iodide (CH3NH3PbI3) hybrid perovskite solar cells is observed at the nanoscale using near-field scanning...

Assessing Radiation Hardness of Silicon Photonic Sensors.

August 13, 2018

Author(s):

Zeeshan Ahmed, Lonnie T. Cumberland, Ronald E. Tosh, Nikolai N. Klimov, Ileana M. Pazos, Ryan P. Fitzgerald

In recent years silicon photonic platforms have undergone rapid maturation enabling not only optical communication but complex scientific experiments ranging...

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Nanophotonics

News and Updates

New Device Widens Light Beams by 400 Times, Broadening Possibilities in Science and Technology

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

Publications

Photonic waveguide to free-space Gaussian beam extreme mode converter

Improving dielectric nano-resonator-based antireflection coatings for photovoltaics

Nanoimaging of local photocurrent in hybrid perovskite solar cells via near-field scanning photocurrent microscopy

Assessing Radiation Hardness of Silicon Photonic Sensors.

Projects & Programs

Photonic Dosimetry

Micro- and nano-optomechanical systems

Light-matter interactions in Semiconductor Nanostructures

Designing the Nanoworld: Nanostructure, Nanodevices, and Nano-optics

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