The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
Eva Rittweger
International Year of Light: Plasmonic waveguides
Anatoly Zayats and Alexey Krasavin present recent progress in the development of active and passive nanophotonic components based on dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguides.
LEDs for Visible-Light Communications
Enhanced recombination rate is achieved on a novel plasmonic platform that exploits the spontaneous formation of a V-pit-texture on the surface of a light-emitting diode.
Helical Liquid Crystal Superstructures
A dynamic photo-alignment technique to design and arbitrarily arrange the in-plane helical axes of cholesteric liquid crystals.
Toward 20% Power Conversion Efficiency Photovoltaics
A novel light trapping configuration for thin-film photovoltaics, called a compound parabolic trapper, is proposed.
Magnetic mirrors for subwavelength imaging
Enhanced electric fields through the optical magnetic mirror effect enable subwavelength imaging resolution.
Topological Insulators for All-Optical Signal Processing
By combining a third-order nonlinear optical material, topological insulator, and microfiber, an all-optical processing device is successfully prepared.
Persistent Phosphorescence for Targeted Imaging
A host–guest–guest material demonstrates the photoreversible on–off recording of persistent room-temperature phosphorescence from the phosphorescent guest.
International Year of Light: 3D μ-printing
Three-dimensional μ-printing is a mature technology, enabling novel research fields in various disciplines based on three-dimensional microstructure.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – February 2016
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.