Star-shaped organic semiconductors based on boron dipyromethene cores could be alternative color conversion materials for VLC.
Second-order nonlinearity with silicon waveguides
Newly published describes the generation of a second order nonlinear susceptibility in silicon by the introduction of an inhomogeneous strain.
Preparing quantum-dot-dense liquid crystal composites
Researchers have demonstrated a method to prepare hybrid organic-inorganic multifunctional liquid crystal composites with high quantum dot content.
Beam-steering on a liquid crystal grating
Researchers demonstrate that beam steering using self-organized cholesteric liquid crystals containing a light-driven chiral molecular switch.
Etching doped silicon to produce perfect plasmonic absorbers
Cheng, et al. have created a broadband perfect absorber for terahertz waves by etching doped silicon to form micro-scale resonant cavities.
3D isotropic metamaterials fabricated
A collaborative team of researchers has reported pioneering work to create an isotropic infrared metamaterial consisting of 3D metallic nanostructures.
Random nanostructures make better flexible electronics
Nanostructuring improves optical confinement and limited light out-coupling efficiency from by the mismatched refractive indices of media in devices.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – Nov. 2014
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Ultrafast Electrically Tunable Polaritonic Metasurfaces
Scientists design an electrically reconfigurable optical metasurface by merging plasmonic metamaterials with semiconductor heterostructures.
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