The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, metamaterials, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
Advanced Optical Materials
Complex Refractory Plasmonic Designs
Researchers demonstrated a new approach to fabricate large-scale, complex nano-architectures of refractory plasmonic transition metal nitrides.
Improving Avalanche Photodiodes – Quantum Dots do the Trick
An avalanche photodiode design with a quantum dot multiplication structure attains a high maximum gain factor and a superior gain noise performance.
Improving CIGSe Solar Cells with Nanophotonics
A nanophotonic approach makes ultrathin CIGSe solar cells with high efficiencies possible.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – March 2017
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, metamaterials, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
Microlenses from Organic Dyes
Researchers from EMPA, the Swiss Federal Institute for Science and Technology, present light scattering enhancement at the absorption edge in dewetting droplets of cyanine dyes.
Travelling through Space with Solar Sails
A solar sail device is developed that can be steered by electronically altering its transparency near the edges while requiring only a low amount of power.
Plasmonic Effects Enhance Infrared Detection
Researchers from Peking University demonstrate that a plasmonic contact electrode can enhance the performance of carbon nanotube infrared detectors.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – February 2017
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, metamaterials, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – January 2017
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, metamaterials, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
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