Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Souvik Biswas, Meir Y. Grajower, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Harry A. Atwater
Summary: The study demonstrates electrically reconfigurable polarization conversion using tri-layer black phosphorus integrated in a Fabry-Perot cavity, enabling spectrally broadband polarization control. The electrical tuning allows for a large fraction of the Poincare sphere to be covered with generated polarization states, and nearly half the Poincare sphere can be spanned with electrical tuning of the state of polarization conversion.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Shitao Shen, Xiaofeng Qin, Haoqiang Feng, Shuting Xie, Zichuan Yi, Mingliang Jin, Guofu Zhou, Eser Metin Akinoglu, Paul Mulvaney, Lingling Shui
Summary: In this paper, an electromicrofluidic assembly platform (eMAP) is proposed and validated for achieving 3D colloidal assembly within water droplets. By using dielectrophoresis and (di)electrowetting effects, reconfigurable colloidal configurations can be observed and dynamically programmed. This platform allows designable chemical and physical anisotropies for functional materials and devices, and enables high throughput mass production of microcapsules and optoelectronic units.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Ziying Zeng, Jianhua Liu, Tongyu Luo, Zhibei Li, Juanfei Liao, Weijun Zhang, Lian Zhang, Fenggang Liu
Summary: The development of crosslinkable nonlinear optical chromophore molecular glasses with ultrahigh electro-optic coefficients and high long-term alignment stability is reported. By conducting Diels-Alder crosslinking reaction after poling, the oriented chromophores were fixed through chemical bonds, resulting in significant improvement of glass transition temperature. These materials demonstrated new breakthroughs in organic electro-optic materials for practical device explorations.
Article
Optics
Mengjie Yu, Rebecca Cheng, Christian Reimer, Lingyan He, Kevin Luke, Eric Puma, Linbo Shao, Amirhassan Shams-Ansari, Xinyi Ren, Hannah R. Grant, Leif Johansson, Mian Zhang, Marko Loncar
Summary: Optical isolators are essential for protecting lasers from unwanted reflections and maintaining phase-stable coherent operation in optical systems. Integrated chip-scale optical systems require fully integrated optical isolators, but existing approaches face challenges in material integration. In this study, a non-reciprocal electro-optic isolator on thin-film lithium niobate is achieved, with high performance in terms of isolation and insertion loss. This represents an important advancement towards practical on-chip optical isolators.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Xueguang Chen, Linhan Lin, Zhengcao Li, Hong-Bo Sun
Summary: The assembly of colloidal particles into superstructures is significant for understanding collective behavior and designing novel colloidal materials. Light plays a crucial role in the directed assembly process, and the understanding of light-matter interaction is critical for tailoring assembly kinetics. Colloidal atoms exhibit diversity in size, shape, and composition, enriching the geometric complexity of colloidal matter. The emerging applications of colloidal superstructures in nanophotonics, nanocatalysis, and nanomedicine are discussed.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2022)
Review
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Tianqi Xu, Yuan Dong, Qize Zhong, Shaonan Zheng, Yang Qiu, Xingyan Zhao, Lianxi Jia, Chengkuo Lee, Ting Hu
Summary: This paper reviews the integrated mid-infrared (MIR) electro-optic (EO) modulators based on different modulation mechanisms and material platforms in MIR photonics. The recent research progress, challenges, and applications of MIR EO modulators are presented and discussed. Several areas in integrated MIR modulators that are worth researching in the future are also provided.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Jiahong Zhang, Fushen Chen
Summary: A lithium niobate integrated electro-optic sensor with a rotating shielding electrode has been developed and demonstrated to measure intensive direct current electric fields. The sensor shows a linear relationship with the input/output and has the potential to be used for measuring high DC electric fields.
IEEE PHOTONICS JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Meng-Jia Sun, Chao Zheng, Yuan Gao, Andrew Johnston, Amin Morteza Najarian, Pei-Xi Wang, Oleksandr Voznyy, Sjoerd Hoogland, Edward H. Sargent
Summary: By introducing BF4- as the X-site molecule, researchers were able to synthesize (DCl)(NH4)(BF4)(3), a material with a linear EO coefficient of 20 pm V-1, surpassing both metal halide perovskites and reported organic perovskites. The EO response of the organic perovskite approaches that of LiNbO3, demonstrating the potential of organically designed perovskites for use in efficient EO modulators.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Materials Science, Ceramics
K. A. Brekhov, S. D. Lavrov
Summary: The electro-optic properties of Ba0.8Sr0.2TiO3 (BST) thin film deposited on MgO (001) substrate by rf sputtering were investigated. The film exhibited predominantly linear electro-optic behavior under static electric field, attributed to strong compressive stresses in the film. The linear electro-optic coefficient of the 1 μm thick BST film was found to be 99.4 p.m./V, showing promise for various electro-optic applications.
CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Javier Fonseca, Lingxin Meng, Pedro Moronta, Inhar Imaz, Cefe Lopez, Daniel Maspoch
Summary: Controlling the size of COF particles allows for the fabrication of porous photonic crystals (PhCs) with a face-centered cubic arrangement. By adsorbing species within the pores of COF particles, the Bragg reflection can be altered, allowing for the modulation of the structure and properties of the PhCs. Given the abundance of existing COFs and their diverse properties, this discovery is expected to enable the development of colloidal PhCs with unprecedented functionality.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Heyou Zhang, Yawei Liu, Muhammad Faris Shahin Shahidan, Calum Kinnear, Fatemeh Maasoumi, Jasper Cadusch, Eser Metin Akinoglu, Timothy D. James, Asaph Widmer-Cooper, Ann Roberts, Paul Mulvaney
Summary: A new method is reported for precisely assembling vertically oriented, single gold nanorods, controlling their orientation. Through electrophoretic deposition, arrays with over one million visually resolvable vertical nanorods per square millimeter can be assembled.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Amir Youssefi, Itay Shomroni, Yash J. Joshi, Nathan R. Bernier, Anton Lukashchuk, Philipp Uhrich, Liu Qiu, Tobias J. Kippenberg
Summary: This experiment demonstrates the cryogenic electro-optical readout of a superconducting electromechanical circuit using a commercial titanium-doped lithium niobate modulator, achieving coherent spectroscopy and incoherent thermometry. Further optimization of the modulator design could reduce the added noise of the setup to levels similar to current semiconductor microwave amplifiers.
NATURE ELECTRONICS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jingyuan Zhang, Xiao Li, Yawei Liu, Jiangang Feng, Jinjin Zhao, Yue Geng, Hanfei Gao, Tie Wang, Wensheng Yang, Lei Jiang, Yuchen Wu
Summary: This paper reports a method of creating microstructure arrays of colloidal nanorods with controllable orientation and long-range order by locally controlling the free-volume entropy in nonequilibrium fluids. The unique fluid dynamics of the liquid bridge allows the nanorods to assemble in a 2D closest packing arrangement parallel to the three-phase contact line, achieving maximum reduction in Gibbs free energy. By manipulating the orientation of the liquid flow, microstructures with programmable geometry can be assembled, sustaining polarized photoluminescence and polarization-dependent photodetection. This confined assembly method opens up new possibilities for the assembly of nanomaterials with controllable orientation and long-range order as a platform for multifunctional integrated devices.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Olga O. Smirnova, Ina V. Kalitukha, Anna V. Rodina, Grigorii S. Dimitriev, Victor F. Sapega, Olga S. Ken, Vladimir L. Korenev, Nikolai V. Kozyrev, Sergey V. Nekrasov, Yuri G. Kusrayev, Dmitri R. Yakovlev, Benoit Dubertret, Manfred Bayer
Summary: This study investigates the optical alignment and orientation of excitons in colloidal nanoplatelets and evaluates their properties through theoretical analysis and experimental data.
Review
Optics
Rongjin Zhuang, Kai Ni, Guanhao Wu, Ting Hao, Longzhao Lu, Yang Li, Qian Zhou
Summary: Optical frequency combs (OFCs) are a type of light source that consists of equally spaced coherent spectral lines. Electro-optic frequency combs (E-O combs) have unique advantages such as tunable repetition rate, high sidebands power, and reconfigurability. With the development of micro-nano processing technology, on-chip E-O combs have become a research topic with various applications.
LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Optics
Oscar Hsu-Cheng Cheng, Dong Hee Son, Matthew Sheldon
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Benjamin J. Roman, Noel Mireles Villegas, Kylie Lytle, Matthew Sheldon
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Zachary T. Brawley, S. David Storm, Diego A. Contreras Mora, Matthew Pelton, Matthew Sheldon
Summary: The vibrational strong coupling of molecules to optical cavities based on plasmonic resonances has been explored recently due to the ability of plasmonic near-fields to provide strong coupling in sub-diffraction limited volumes. This work demonstrates an angle-independent plasmonic nanodisk substrate that overcomes limitations of traditional optical cavities and allows for strong coupling with all molecules on the surface, regardless of molecular orientation. The large linewidths of the plasmon resonance enable simultaneous strong coupling to two orthogonal water vibrational modes, with the Rabi splitting varying as a function of plasmon frequency and strong coupling achieved for a range of diameters.
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Physics, Applied
Shengxiang Wu, Oscar Hsu-Cheng Cheng, Boqin Zhao, Nicki Hogan, Annika Lee, Dong Hee Son, Matthew Sheldon
Summary: Recent studies show that the anti-Stokes Raman signal can determine two temperatures of carriers inside the metal; The majority of the Raman signal is from inelastic scattering with carriers in a non-thermal energy distribution excited via surface plasmon damping; Experimental results demonstrate how a simple fitting procedure can reveal the plasmon dephasing time and the temperatures of hot carriers and the metal lattice.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Je-Ruei Wen, Freddy Alberto Rodriguez Ortiz, Anna Champ, Matthew T. Sheldon
Summary: This study demonstrates that the reaction kinetics of all-inorganic CsPbX3 nanocrystal growth can be significantly slowed by employing a dual injection strategy. This allows for the synthesis of highly uniform nanorods or cuboid nanocrystals with controllable size, aspect ratio, and crystal lattice structure.
Editorial Material
Optics
Yuzhe Xiao, Matthew Sheldon, Mikhail A. Kats
Summary: This article discusses how a heat-powered emitter can exceed the Planck thermal-emission limit, and argues that super-Planckian emission requires an energy distribution that is not consistent with a unique temperature.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Oscar Hsu-Cheng Cheng, Boqin Zhao, Zachary Brawley, Dong Hee Son, Matthew T. Sheldon
Summary: This study reports that modulating the polarization state of light can significantly decrease the plasmon damping of chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Under continuous wave optical excitation, the reflectance and optical field concentration increased by up to 8% and 35.7%, respectively. These effects were observed even in the presence of an external magnetic field. The decrease in plasmon damping is rationalized through the Lorentz forces acting on the circulating electron trajectories. These results provide strategies for actively modulating intrinsic losses in metals through optomagnetic effects encoded in the polarization state of incident light.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Freddy A. Rodriguez A. Ortiz, Boqin Zhao, Je-Ruei Wen, Ju Eun Yim, Giselle Bauer, Anna Champ, Matthew T. Sheldon
Summary: In this study, the anisotropy of the complex dielectric function of CsPbBr3 nanorods was determined by analyzing the ensemble absorption spectra and spectral fluorescence anisotropy. The results show that quantum confinement gives rise to unique axis-dependent electronic features in the dielectric function, increasing the overall fluorescence anisotropy even in the absence of quantum confinement. Additionally, this study provides a strategy for obtaining anisotropic complex dielectric functions of colloidal materials with varying composition and aspect ratios using ensemble solution-phase spectroscopy.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
(2023)
News Item
Optics
Matthew Sheldon
Summary: Researchers have successfully overcome the challenge of detecting vibrations of individual molecules due to thermal noise by upconverting mid-infrared photons into visible light using nanophotonic cavities, enabling high-efficiency optical readout for single-molecule vibrational spectroscopy.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Noel Mireles Villegas, Josue C. Hernandez, Joshua C. John, Matthew Sheldon
Summary: We present a size-selective method for purifying and isolating perovskite CsPbBr3 nanocrystals (NCs) while preserving their surface chemistry and high photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs). By evaporating nonpolar co-solvents, the isolation procedure promotes the precipitation of a size-selected product. The resulting solution-phase superlattices (SLs) of NCs exhibit improved PLQYs and unique spectral absorption features, indicating the potential for achieving collective optoelectronic phenomena previously observed from solid-state assemblies.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Oscar Hsu-Cheng Cheng, Tian Qiao, Matthew Sheldon, Dong Hee Son