Article
Physics, Applied
Megha Khokhar, Rajesh Nair
Summary: Dielectric metasurfaces using soft materials manipulate light interaction at a sub-wavelength scale, exhibiting optical resonances due to diffraction of light on the corrugated surface or light trapped within micro-spheres. The tunability of resonant modes is discussed by adjusting lattice constant and effective refractive index of the metasurface.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Jie Li, Jitao Li, Chenglong Zheng, Longhai Liu, Zhen Yue, Hang Xu, Xuanruo Hao, Fuyu Li, Tingting Tang, Yating Zhang, Jianquan Yao
Summary: The study introduces a new scheme for active terahertz absorption based on undoped silicon with a metamaterial antireflection layer, achieving strong absorption and ultrahigh modulation depth. By exciting carriers uniformly distributed across the entire thickness, efficient free carrier absorption of terahertz wave is obtained.
SCIENCE CHINA-PHYSICS MECHANICS & ASTRONOMY
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Zhuoran Fang, Jiajiu Zheng, Abhi Saxena, James Whitehead, Yueyang Chen, Arka Majumdar
Summary: This study experimentally demonstrated the strong optical phase modulation and low optical loss of Sb2S3 at wavelengths of 750 nm and 1550 nm, showcasing the thermal stability of the Sb2S3-Si hybrid platform and an electrically tunable Sb2S3 integrated non-volatile microring switch with a high-contrast transmission state over 30 dB.
ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Weien Lai, Gen Liu, Hanguang Gou, Huizhen Wu, Arash Rahimi-Iman
Summary: An actively configurable coating for omnidirectional broadband terahertz anti-reflection has been developed using a polymer and graphene composite film. The coating can be tuned by near-infrared light and achieves efficient suppression of terahertz-wave reflection over a wide range of incidence angles and frequencies. The coating also improves the performance of a reflectance-tunable terahertz-wave polarization reflector by eliminating interference effects. This concept offers several advantages, including wide-angle operation, broad spectral range, tunability, and ease of fabrication, which could revolutionize anti-reflection strategies at terahertz frequencies.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jingya Xie, Wangcheng Ye, Linjie Zhou, Xuguang Guo, Xiaofei Zang, Lin Chen, Yiming Zhu
Summary: In the past few decades, terahertz (THz) technologies have been greatly enhanced and investigated due to possible opportunities in various applications. Photonics plays a key role in the generation, modulation, and detection of THz waves, while researchers are exploring ways to use silicon photonics for THz applications. Challenges remain in high-quality hybrid silicon lasers, conversion efficiency, device integration, and fabrication for THz integrated systems.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yuehong Xu, Quan Xu, Xueqian Zhang, Xi Feng, Yongchang Lu, Xixiang Zhang, Ming Kang, Jiaguang Han, Weili Zhang
Summary: This study proposes a new design scheme using all-metal stereo U-shaped meta-atoms for efficient and broadband manipulation of terahertz polarization. The design is experimentally verified to demonstrate superior performance in polarization control and enriches the design freedom of polarization-related metasurfaces.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Ping-Yen Hsieh, Shun-Lin Fang, Yu-Siang Lin, Wen-Hsien Huang, Jia-Min Shieh, Peichen Yu, You-Chia Chang
Summary: This study demonstrates a platform that integrates amorphous silicon nanopillars monolithically on silicon photonic integrated circuits. Diffraction-limited beam focusing and meta-hologram projection are experimentally achieved. This platform provides a highly versatile interface in the existing silicon photonic ecosystem for precise delivery of free-space emission.
Article
Optics
Wentao Deng, Liao Chen, Hongqi Zhang, Shiwei Wang, Zijie Lu, Siqi Liu, Zuoming Yang, Ziwei Wang, Shixing Yuan, Yilun Wang, Ruolan Wang, Yu Yu, Xiaojun Wu, Xianbin Yu, Xinliang Zhang
Summary: This study proposes and demonstrates a high-capacity communication device based on a silicon-based integrated multidimensional THz (de)multiplexer, and experimentally demonstrates a THz communication system operating in the 380 GHz band. By using on-chip polarization- and frequency-division multiplexing techniques, a data transmission rate of 8 Gbit/s is successfully achieved.
LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Optics
Tong Wu, Huifang Zhang, Sivaloganathan Kumaran, Yuehong Xu, Qingwei Wang, Wladislaw Michailow, Xueqian Zhang, Harvey E. Beere, David A. Ritchie, Jiaguang Han
Summary: In this study, we propose and experimentally demonstrate several spin-dependent wavefront control metasurfaces using all-silicon dielectric structures. These metasurfaces are easy to fabricate and have potential applications in terahertz optical systems and communication systems.
PHOTONICS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Yuhao Wu, Sarah N. Chowdhury, Lei Kang, Soham S. Saha, Alexandra Boltasseva, Alexander V. Kildishev, Douglas H. Werner
Summary: By exploiting the extreme light confinement observed in periodic photonic structures and the dynamic material properties of zinc oxide (ZnO), this study presents a hybrid metasurface with broadly tunable topological properties. The results demonstrate that this metasurface can greatly manipulate the polarization of near-infrared light and has the potential to be used in all-optical switchable devices.
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Stephen J. Bauman, Ahmad A. Darweesh, Miles Furr, Meredith Magee, Christos Argyropoulos, Joseph B. Herzog
Summary: This work demonstrates the successful use of gold nanosphere metasurfaces with tunable subnanometer gap widths for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). The results show that the signal enhancement increases with decreasing gap width, but an enhancement quenching effect is observed below gaps of around 1 nm. This study highlights the potential of tunable sub-nanometer gap metasurfaces as a tool to investigate subnanometer scale effects at the interface between plasmonic nanostructures.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Ying Zeng, Dunzhu Lu, Xingxing Xu, Xiaoqiuyan Zhang, Hujie Wan, Junqin Wang, Xuju Jiang, Xiaosheng Yang, Ming Xu, Qiye Wen, Jianquan Yao, Min Hu, Xinliang Zhang, Peining Li
Summary: This work demonstrates the large-scale and lithography-free manufacturing of all-PCM terahertz metasurfaces based on direct laser switching of crystalline micro-domains. The theoretical modeling reveals the delicate interplay between amorphous and crystalline phase-change materials. These studies open new avenues for realizing all-PCM terahertz ultrafast nanophotonics.
ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mudassar Nauman, Jingshi Yan, Domenico de Ceglia, Mohsen Rahmani, Khosro Zangeneh Kamali, Costantino De Angelis, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, Yuerui Lu, Dragomir N. Neshev
Summary: Researchers have successfully demonstrated enhanced single-beam second- and third-harmonic generation in a metasurface made of crystalline transition-metal-dichalcogenide material, offering the highest refractive index. The resonances of the metasurface allow for tuning of the unidirectional second-harmonic radiation in a forward or backward direction, presenting new opportunities for metasurface-based nonlinear light sources.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ali Khajeh, Zahra Hamzavi-Zarghani, Alireza Yahaghi, Ali Farmani
Summary: This paper considers the use of randomly initialized hill climbing and genetic algorithms to design broadband polarization converters based on coded metasurfaces. The operation frequency of the converters can be adjusted by changing the chemical potential of graphene, and the effects of relaxation time of graphene and incident angle on the polarization conversion bandwidth are investigated.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Jiahao Ge, Yaqiang Zhang, Hongxing Dong, Long Zhang
Summary: This study proposes a nanolayered terahertz metasurface with switchable functionality between absorption and transmission. The switchable performances are achieved through the electrical tunability of graphene and the insulator-metal transition in vanadium dioxide (VO2). When VO2 functions as a metal, the metasurface acts as a quad-band perfect absorber, and when VO2 is in an insulating state, it functions as a THz antireflection coating. The physical mechanisms behind these functionalities are analyzed using a theoretical interference model, and the metasurface is shown to be insensitive to light polarization and angle of incidence. This research has significant implications for the development of switchable metadevices in the THz regime.
ACS APPLIED NANO MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Shijia Cheng, Qing Chang, Zeng Wang, Lian Xiao, Elbert E. M. Chia, Handong Sun
Summary: This study demonstrates the fabrication of high crystalline and coverage CsPbBr3 thin films using a single-step physical technique - pulsed laser deposition (PLD), showing stimulated emission with low pump threshold at room temperature, providing insights for high performance all-inorganic CsPbBr3 perovskite films in various optoelectronic devices.
ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Liang Cheng, Ziqi Li, Daming Zhao, Elbert E. M. Chia
Summary: Spin-charge conversion is a key phenomenon in spintronics, which helps in manipulating the spin and charge degrees of freedom in materials. The recent development of THz emission spectroscopy in this field provides additional insights into the dynamics of the spin-charge conversion process, analyzing the technical details and features of this technique.
Editorial Material
Physics, Applied
Tom S. Seifert, Liang Cheng, Zhengxing Wei, Tobias Kampfrath, Jingbo Qi
Summary: This editorial reviews the recent developments and applications, current understanding of the physical processes, and future challenges and perspectives of broadband spintronic terahertz emitters.
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
(2022)
Editorial Material
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Steven Lukman, Lu Ding, Lei Xu, Ye Tao, Anders C. Riis-Jensen, Gang Zhang, Qingyang Steve Wu, Ming Yang, Sheng Luo, Chuanghan Hsu, Liangzi Yao, Gengchiau Liang, Hsin Lin, Yong-Wei Zhang, Kristian S. Thygesen, Qi Jie Wang, Yuanping Feng, Jinghua Teng
NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Zhengxin Wei, Shuai Zhang, Yulun Su, Liang Cheng, Haidong Zhou, Zhigang Jiang, Hongming Weng, Jingbo Qi
Summary: In this study, we investigated the dynamics of quasiparticles and collective excitations in the material ZrTe5 using ultrafast optical pump-probe spectroscopy. Our results revealed two coherent oscillations with extremely low energies, which softened as the temperature approached two different critical temperatures. These oscillations were attributed to the amplitude mode of photoinduced dynamic charge density waves in ZrTe5. Additionally, we observed a peculiar quasiparticle decay process associated with a specific mode below a transition temperature. These findings provide important information for studying fluctuating order parameters and quasiparticle dynamics in different low-dimensional topological systems and materials.
SCIENCE CHINA-PHYSICS MECHANICS & ASTRONOMY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yu Gao, Yunhe Pei, Tian Xiang, Liang Cheng, Jingbo Qi
Summary: The study reveals that PtBi2 material can generate broadband terahertz waves under the excitation of femtosecond laser pulses due to the dominant linear photogalvanic effect. The unique electronic structures of PtBi2 play a crucial role in the generation of THz waves, and its nonlinear susceptibility is nearly two orders of magnitude larger than that of traditional nonlinear crystals.
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Qing Chang, Di Bao, Bingbing Chen, Hongwei Hu, Xiaoxuan Chen, Handong Sun, Yeng Ming Lam, Jian-Xin Zhu, Daming Zhao, Elbert E. M. Chia
Summary: Mixed-cation lead mixed-halide perovskites exhibit both structural stability and high power conversion efficiency. By using broadband transient absorption spectroscopy, the dynamics of carriers and excitons in a FA(0.85)Cs(0.15)Pb(I0.97Br0.03)(3) perovskite were studied. The results reveal a fast conversion of carriers to excitons and a change in the kinetics of carrier recombination with varying pump fluence. This research provides insights into the physics of mixed-halide perovskites and their potential for improving solar cell performance.
COMMUNICATIONS PHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Avinash Chaurasiya, Ziqi Li, Rohit Medwal, Surbhi Gupta, John Rex Mohan, Yasuhiro Fukuma, Hironori Asada, Elbert E. M. Chia, Rajdeep Singh Rawat
Summary: This study demonstrates the electric field-mediated piezoelectric strain control of photogenerated THz spin current pulse from a multiferroic spintronic emitter, opening up new possibilities for the development of efficient on-chip THz spintronics devices.
ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Physics, Applied
Jiayun Liu, Kyusup Lee, Yingshu Yang, Ziqi Li, Raghav Sharma, Lifei Xi, Teddy Salim, Chris Boothroyd, Yeng Ming Lam, Hyunsoo Yang, Marco Battiato, Elbert E. M. Chia
Summary: This study demonstrates that efficient spintronic terahertz emission can be achieved simply by adding a ferromagnetic layer on silicon. Leveraging on the natural formation of silicides at the interface of a transition metal and silicon can improve spin-to-charge conversion efficiency.
PHYSICAL REVIEW APPLIED
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Liang Cheng, Ying Xiong, Lixing Kang, Yu Gao, Qing Chang, Mengji Chen, Jingbo Qi, Hyunsoo Yang, Zheng Liu, Justin C. W. Song, Elbert E. M. Chia
Summary: In this study, a giant and highly tunable terahertz emission is observed in thin polycrystalline films of the centrosymmetric Dirac semimetal PtSe2. The emitted THz efficiency of PtSe2 is two orders of magnitude larger than ZnTe and approaches that of TaAs. Additionally, the THz emission from PtSe2 is controlled by the incident pump polarization and helicity state.
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Lu Ding, Sergey Gorelik, Pei Wang, Anton Valentinovich Sadovoy, Qiang Zhu, Andrew Chun Yong Ngo, Jinghua Teng
Summary: Surface crack detection and sizing is crucial in the manufacturing and maintenance of aircraft engines and metal parts. The non-contact and non-intrusive technique based on laser-stimulated lock-in thermography (LLT) has gained attention in the aerospace industry. A reconfigurable LLT system is proposed for three-dimensional surface crack detection in metal alloys. It allows for quick localization and accurate measurement of crack dimensions, and can also be applied to non-destructive defect detection in other materials.
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Xingchi Xiao, Liang Cheng, Di Bao, Qi Ying Tan, Teddy Salim, Cesare Soci, Elbert E. M. Chia, Yeng Ming Lam
Summary: Singlet fission (SF) materials have been used to improve the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of solar cells. However, SF implementation in perovskite solar cells has not been successful due to the lack of understanding of the SF/perovskite heterojunctions. In this study, the charge dynamics between a well-known SF molecule, TIPS-pentacene, and a triple-cation perovskite Cs-0.05(FA(0.85)MA(0.15))(0.95)PbI2.55Br0.45 were investigated. The results show that there is an electron-transfer process from TIPS-pentacene to perovskite, leading to an increase in carrier density in the perovskite layer. This study confirms the potential of SF-enhanced perovskite solar cells.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2023)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
L. Cheng, F. C. Fei, H. Hu, Y. M. Dai, F. Q. Song, J. Qi
Summary: In this study, we used ultrafast optical pump-probe spectroscopy to investigate the quasiparticle dynamics in the type-II Dirac semimetal NiTe2. We observed anomalous dynamic optical responses around the critical temperature T* (-60 K), which were also confirmed by transport experiments. Specifically, our results revealed a phonon-assisted electron-hole recombination process that showed an anomaly at T* <^>' 60 K. We discovered an unusual behavior of phonon renormalization, characterized by anomalies in the temperature-dependent phonon energy and lifetime at T*. We found that these anomalies were due to the sudden shift of the phonon mode involved in the recombination, which was caused by the abrupt change in electronic structure near the Fermi surface. These findings provide deeper insights into the nonequilibrium carrier and lattice properties in topological materials.