Refractory Plasmonic Hafnium Nitride and Zirconium Nitride Thin Films as Alternatives to Silver for Solar Mirror Applications

Near-UV-to-Near-IR Hyperbolic Photonic Dispersion in Epitaxial (Hf,Zr)N/ScN Metal/Dielectric Superlattices

(2022) Prasanna Das et al.   ACS Applied Energy Materials

Full-color generation enabled by refractory plasmonic crystals

(2022) Zong-Yi Chiao et al.   Nanophotonics

Giant enhancement of plasmonic response and epsilon-near-zero signature in refractory transition metals (Ta, W, and Mo) deposited at high-temperature

(2021) Krishna Chand Maurya et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Controlling the plasmonic properties of titanium nitride thin films by radiofrequency substrate biasing in magnetron sputtering

(2021) Luca Mascaretti et al.   APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE

ZrN fractal-graphene-based metamaterial absorber in the visible and near-IR regimes

(2021) M.A. Baqir et al.   OPTIK

Replacing silver by aluminum in solar mirrors by improving solar reflectance with dielectric top layers

(2021) Antoine Grosjean et al.   Sustainable Materials and Technologies

Ultrafast Thermal Imprinting of Plasmonic Hotspots

(2021) Sven H. C. Askes et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Adiabatic frequency shifting in epsilon-near-zero materials: the role of group velocity

(2020) Jacob B. Khurgin et al.   Optica

Broadband frequency translation through time refraction in an epsilon-near-zero material

(2020) Yiyu Zhou et al.   Nature Communications

Phononic bandgap and phonon anomalies in HfN and HfN/ScN metal/semiconductor superlattices measured with inelastic x-ray scattering

(2020) Sourjyadeep Chakraborty et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Reduced optical losses in refractory plasmonic titanium nitride thin films deposited with molecular beam epitaxy

(2020) Krishna Chand Maurya et al.   Optical Materials Express

Optical coatings of durability based on transition metal nitrides

(2019) Chaoquan Hu et al.   THIN SOLID FILMS

Titanium Nitride Epitaxial Films as a Plasmonic Material Platform: Alternative to Gold

(2019) Wan-Ping Guo et al.   ACS Photonics

Thermally stable epitaxial ZrN/carrier-compensated Sc0.99Mg0.01N metal/semiconductor multilayers for thermionic energy conversion

(2019) Magnus Garbrecht et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Refractive Index Sensor Based on Surface Plasmon Resonance Excitation in a D-Shaped Photonic Crystal Fiber Coated by Titanium Nitride

(2019) Yashar Esfahani Monfared   Plasmonics

Zirconium nitride: A viable candidate for photonics and plasmonics?

(2019) Panos Patsalas   THIN SOLID FILMS

Investigation and review of mirrors reflectance in parabolic trough solar collectors (PTSCs)

(2019) Hamzeh Jamali   Energy Reports

Ultra-broadband perfect solar absorber by an ultra-thin refractory titanium nitride meta-surface

(2018) Zhengqi Liu et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Tailoring of surface plasmon resonances in TiN/(Al0.72Sc0.28)N multilayers by dielectric layer thickness variation

(2017) Magnus Garbrecht et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Identifying Key Factors towards Highly Reflective Silver Coatings

(2017) Bo Zheng et al.   Advances in Materials Science and Engineering

Temperature-Dependent Optical Properties of Single Crystalline and Polycrystalline Silver Thin Films

(2017) Harsha Reddy et al.   ACS Photonics

Temperature-Dependent Optical Properties of Plasmonic Titanium Nitride Thin Films

(2017) Harsha Reddy et al.   ACS Photonics

Ion-bombardment-induced reduction in vacancies and its enhanced effect on conductivity and reflectivity in hafnium nitride films

(2016) Zhiqing Gu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING

Microstructural evolution and thermal stability of HfN/ScN, ZrN/ScN, and Hf0.5Zr0.5N/ScN metal/semiconductor superlattices

(2016) Magnus Garbrecht et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE

Influence of ion–atom arrival ratio on structure and optical properties of ZrN x films

(2016) Jian-ping Meng et al.   MATERIALS LETTERS

Solar power and application methods

(2016) Mukrimin Sevket Guney   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Titanium nitride films for micro-supercapacitors: Effect of surface chemistry and film morphology on the capacitance

(2015) Amine Achour et al.   JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES

Nature of Tunable Optical Reflectivity of Rocksalt Hafnium Nitride Films

(2014) Chaoquan Hu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Passive radiative cooling below ambient air temperature under direct sunlight

(2014) Aaswath P. Raman et al.   NATURE

Alternative Plasmonic Materials: Beyond Gold and Silver

(2013) Gururaj V. Naik et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ag/Ni/Ag Multilayer Reflector for GaN-Based Vertical Light-Emitting Diode

(2013) Woong-Sun Yum et al.   JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Thermoelectric properties of epitaxial ScN films deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering onto MgO(001) substrates

(2013) Polina V. Burmistrova et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Physical properties of epitaxial ZrN/MgO(001) layers grown by reactive magnetron sputtering

(2013) A. B. Mei et al.   JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY A

Progress in solar PV technology: Research and achievement

(2013) V.V. Tyagi et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Titanium nitride as a plasmonic material for visible and near-infrared wavelengths

(2012) Gururaj V. Naik et al.   Optical Materials Express

Innovation in concentrated solar power

(2011) David Barlev et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Tunable electrical and optical properties of hafnium nitride thin films

(2010) I. L. Farrell et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

A review of the optical properties of alloys and intermetallics for plasmonics

(2010) M G Blaber et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Effects of substrate bias and nitrogen flow ratio on the resistivity, composition, crystal structure, and reflectance of reactively sputtered hafnium-nitride film

(2009) Jiann-Shing Jeng et al.   JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS