Nanophotonics

News and Updates

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...

Image showing several lines of a circuit, with an inset showing a device that has both a quantum dot and a network of waveguides

Hybrid Circuit Combines Single-Photon Generator and Efficient Waveguides on One Chip

November 07, 2017

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have taken a new step...

Cavity coating in flat red layer below blue-green light beam

Plasmons in an Open Box Create Miniature Laser

October 12, 2017

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed the first miniature laser in...

Publications

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...

Towards Replacing Resistance Thermometry with Photonic Thermometry

December 06, 2017

Author(s):

Nikolai N. Klimov, Thomas P. Purdy, Zeeshan Ahmed

Resistance thermometry provides a time-tested method for taking temperature measurements that has been painstakingly developed over the last century. However,...

Plasma nanotexturing of silicon surfaces for photovoltaics applications: Influence of initial surface finish on the evolution of topographical and optical properties

November 27, 2017

Author(s):

Guillaume Fischer, Etienne Drahi, Martin Foldyna, Thomas A. 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...

Subradiant dipolar interactions in plasmonic nanoring resonator array for integrated label-free biosensing

November 15, 2017

Author(s):

Yuzhang Liang, Hui Zhang, Wenqi Zhu, Amit K. Agrawal, Henri J. 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...

Nanophotonics

News and Updates

Psst! A Whispering Gallery for Light Boosts Solar Cells

Doing the Nano-Shimmy

Hybrid Circuit Combines Single-Photon Generator and Efficient Waveguides on One Chip

Plasmons in an Open Box Create Miniature Laser

Publications

Humidity Responsive Photonic Sensor based on a Carboxymethyl Cellulose Mechanical Actuator

Towards Replacing Resistance Thermometry with Photonic Thermometry

Plasma nanotexturing of silicon surfaces for photovoltaics applications: Influence of initial surface finish on the evolution of topographical and optical properties

Subradiant dipolar interactions in plasmonic nanoring resonator array for integrated label-free biosensing

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