Harnessing structural darkness in the visible and infrared wavelengths for a new source of light

Carbon Nanotube-Based Tandem Absorber with Tunable Spectral Selectivity: Transition from Near-Perfect Blackbody Absorber to Solar Selective Absorber

(2014) N. Selvakumar et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A nanophotonic solar thermophotovoltaic device

(2014) Andrej Lenert et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Optical wave turbulence: Towards a unified nonequilibrium thermodynamic formulation of statistical nonlinear optics

(2014) A. Picozzi et al.   PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS

Site-Specific Growth of Au–Pd Alloy Horns on Au Nanorods: A Platform for Highly Sensitive Monitoring of Catalytic Reactions by Surface Enhancement Raman Spectroscopy

(2013) Jianfeng Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Enhanced energy storage in chaotic optical resonators

(2013) C. Liu et al.   Nature Photonics

Ultrabroadband Light Absorption by a Sawtooth Anisotropic Metamaterial Slab

(2012) Yanxia Cui et al.   NANO LETTERS

Nanometre optical coatings based on strong interference effects in highly absorbing media

(2012) Mikhail A. Kats et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Transformation Optics and Subwavelength Control of Light

(2012) J. B. Pendry et al.   SCIENCE

Very Black Infrared Detector from Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes and Electric-Field Poling of Lithium Tantalate

(2010) John Lehman et al.   NANO LETTERS

Infrared Perfect Absorber and Its Application As Plasmonic Sensor

(2010) Na Liu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Colloidal heterostructured nanocrystals: Synthesis and growth mechanisms

(2010) Luigi Carbone et al.   Nano Today

Bose–Einstein condensation of photons in an optical microcavity

(2010) Jan Klaers et al.   NATURE

Light condensation

(2010) Andrea Fratalocchi   Nature Photonics

Light-Mode Condensation in Actively-Mode-Locked Lasers

(2010) Rafi Weill et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Fundamental limit of nanophotonic light trapping in solar cells

(2010) Zongfu Yu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Demonstration of a spaser-based nanolaser

(2009) M. A. Noginov et al.   NATURE

A black body absorber from vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes

(2009) K. Mizuno et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Metal Nanocrystals: Simple Chemistry Meets Complex Physics?

(2008) Younan Xia et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Experimental Observation of an Extremely Dark Material Made By a Low-Density Nanotube Array

(2008) Zu-Po Yang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Optical Absorption Enhancement in Amorphous Silicon Nanowire and Nanocone Arrays

(2008) Jia Zhu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Omnidirectional absorption in nanostructured metal surfaces

(2008) T. V. Teperik et al.   Nature Photonics

Dynamic light diffusion, three-dimensional Anderson localization and lasing in inverted opals

(2008) C. Conti et al.   Nature Physics

Condensation in Disordered Lasers: Theory,3D+1Simulations, and Experiments

(2008) C. Conti et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS