scholarly journals Ultra-Broadband, Lithography-Free, Omnidirectional, and Polarization-Insensitive Perfect Absorber

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tse-An Chen ◽  
Meng-Ju Yub ◽  
Yu-Jung Lu ◽  
Ta-Jen Yen
Keyword(s):  
Mass Production ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Magnesium Fluoride ◽  
Perfect Absorber ◽  
Plasmonic Resonance ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Narrow Bandwidth ◽  
Thermal Emitters ◽  
Polarization Insensitive ◽  
Color Filters

Abstract Perfect absorbers (PAs) at near infrared allow various applications such as biosensors, nonlinear optics, color filters, thermal emitters and so on. These PAs, enabled by plasmonic resonance, are typically powerful and compact, but confront inherent challenges of narrow bandwidth, polarization dependence, and limited incident angles as well as requires using expensive lithographic process, which limit their practical applications and mass production. In this work, we demonstrate a non-resonant PA that is comprised of six continuous layers of magnesium fluoride (MgF2) and chromium (Cr) in turns. Our device absorbs more than 90% of light in a broad range of 900-1900 nm. In addition, such a planar design is lithography-free, certainly independent with polarization, and presents a further advantage of wide incidence up to 70°. The measured performance of our optimized PA agrees well with analytical calculations of transfer matrix method (TMM) and numerical simulations of finite element method, and can be readily implemented for practical applications.

scholarly journals Ultra-broadband, lithography-free, omnidirectional, and polarization-insensitive perfect absorber

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tse-An Chen ◽  
Meng-Ju Yub ◽  
Yu-Jung Lu ◽  
Ta-Jen Yen
Keyword(s):  
Mass Production ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Magnesium Fluoride ◽  
Perfect Absorber ◽  
Plasmonic Resonance ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Narrow Bandwidth ◽  
Thermal Emitters ◽  
Polarization Insensitive ◽  
Color Filters

AbstractPerfect absorbers (PAs) at near infrared allow various applications such as biosensors, nonlinear optics, color filters, thermal emitters and so on. These PAs, enabled by plasmonic resonance, are typically powerful and compact, but confront inherent challenges of narrow bandwidth, polarization dependence, and limited incident angles as well as requires using expensive lithographic process, which limit their practical applications and mass production. In this work, we demonstrate a non-resonant PA that is comprised of six continuous layers of magnesium fluoride (MgF2) and chromium (Cr) in turns. Our device absorbs more than 90% of light in a broad range of 900–1900 nm. In addition, such a planar design is lithography-free, certainly independent with polarization, and presents a further advantage of wide incidence up to 70°. The measured performance of our optimized PA agrees well with analytical calculations of transfer matrix method (TMM) and numerical simulations of finite element method, and can be readily implemented for practical applications.

scholarly journals High-efficiency broadband achromatic metalens for near-IR biological imaging window

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yujie Wang ◽  
Qinmiao Chen ◽  
Wenhong Yang ◽  
Ziheng Ji ◽  
Limin Jin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Titanium Dioxide ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Numerical Aperture ◽  
Biological Imaging ◽  
Material Loss ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Aspect Ratios ◽  
Polarization Insensitive

AbstractOver the past years, broadband achromatic metalenses have been intensively studied due to their great potential for applications in consumer and industry products. Even though significant progress has been made, the efficiency of technologically relevant silicon metalenses is limited by the intrinsic material loss above the bandgap. In turn, the recently proposed achromatic metalens utilizing transparent, high-index materials such as titanium dioxide has been restricted by the small thickness and showed relatively low focusing efficiency at longer wavelengths. Consequently, metalens-based optical imaging in the biological transparency window has so far been severely limited. Herein, we experimentally demonstrate a polarization-insensitive, broadband titanium dioxide achromatic metalens for applications in the near-infrared biological imaging. A large-scale fabrication technology has been developed to produce titanium dioxide nanopillars with record-high aspect ratios featuring pillar heights of 1.5 µm and ~90° vertical sidewalls. The demonstrated metalens exhibits dramatically increased group delay range, and the spectral range of achromatism is substantially extended to the wavelength range of 650–1000 nm with an average efficiency of 77.1%–88.5% and a numerical aperture of 0.24–0.1. This research paves a solid step towards practical applications of flat photonics.

Omnidirectional and polarization insensitive nearly perfect absorber in one dimensional meta-structure

2014 ◽  
Vol 105 (18) ◽  
pp. 181102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Feng ◽  
Jun Qiu ◽  
Yongyin Cao ◽  
Linhua Liu ◽  
Weiqiang Ding ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Perfect Absorber ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Polarization Insensitive

scholarly journals Quad-Band Plasmonic Perfect Absorber for Visible Light with a Patchwork of Silicon Nanorod Resonators

Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Can Cao ◽  
Yongzhi Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Visible Light ◽  
Transverse Electric ◽  
Transverse Magnetic ◽  
Localized Surface Plasmon ◽  
Perfect Absorber ◽  
Absorption Properties ◽  
Perfect Absorption ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Polarization Insensitive ◽  
Band Absorption

In this paper, a plasmonic perfect absorber (PPA) based on a silicon nanorod resonator (SNRR) for visible light is proposed and investigated numerically. The proposed PPA is only a two-layer nanostructure consisting of a SNRR periodic array and metal substrate. The perfect absorption mainly originates from excitation of the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) mode in the SNRR structure. The absorption properties of this design can be adjusted by varying the radius (r) and height (h) of the SNRR structure. What is more, the stronger quad-band absorption can be achieved by combing four different radius of the SNRR in one period as a super unit-cell. Numerical simulation indicates that the designed quad-band PPA can achieve the absorbance of 99.99%, 99.8%, 99.8%, and 92.2% at 433.5 THz, 456 THz, 482 THz, and 504.5 THz, respectively. Further simulations show that the proposed PPA is polarization-insensitive for both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) modes. The proposed PPA can be a desirable candidate for some potential applications in detecting, sensing, and visible spectroscopy.

scholarly journals Flexible Broadband Metamaterial Perfect Absorber Based on Graphene-Conductive Inks

Photonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 440
Author(s):  
Le Van Long ◽  
Nguyen Sy Khiem ◽  
Bui Son Tung ◽  
Nguyen Thanh Tung ◽  
Trinh Thi Giang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Impedance Matching ◽  
Optical Filters ◽  
Wide Frequency Range ◽  
Absorption Feature ◽  
Perfect Absorber ◽  
Frequency Range ◽  
Absorption Mechanism ◽  
Polarization Insensitive ◽  
Metamaterial Perfect Absorber ◽  
High Absorption

In this work, we proposed a flexible broadband metamaterial perfect absorber (FBMPA) by exploiting a pasted conductive-graphene ink on a polyimide substrate. For the flat FBMPA, an absorption over 90% was found to cover a wide frequency range (from 7.88 to 18.01 GHz). The high-absorption feature was polarization-insensitive and regarded as stable with respect to the oblique incidence up to 30 degrees of electromagnetic wave. The high absorption was maintained well even when the absorber was wrapped. That is, the FBMPA was attached to cylindrical surfaces (with the varying radius from 4 to 50 cm). For both flat and curved states, the absorption mechanism was explained by the perfect impedance matching and the dielectric loss of the proposed absorber. Our work provides the groundwork for the commercialization of future meta-devices such as sensors, optical filters/switchers, photodetectors, and energy converters.

scholarly journals Understanding Mental Health and Cognitive Restructuring With Ecological Neuroscience

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Crum
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Experimental Designs ◽  
Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Neuroimaging Techniques ◽  
Selection Of

Neuroimaging and neuropsychological methods have contributed much toward an understanding of the information processing systems of the human brain in the last few decades, but to what extent do cognitive neuroscientific findings represent and generalize to the inter- and intra-brain dynamics engaged in adapting to naturalistic situations? If it is not marked, and experimental designs lack ecological validity, then this stands to potentially impact the practical applications of a paradigm. In no other domain is this more important to acknowledge than in human clinical neuroimaging research, wherein reduced ecological validity could mean a loss in clinical utility. One way to improve the generalizability and representativeness of findings is to adopt a more “real-world” approach to the development and selection of experimental designs and neuroimaging techniques to investigate the clinically-relevant phenomena of interest. For example, some relatively recent developments to neuroimaging techniques such as functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) make it possible to create experimental designs using naturalistic tasks that would otherwise not be possible within the confines of a conventional laboratory. Mental health, cognitive interventions, and the present challenges to investigating the brain during treatment are discussed, as well as how the ecological use of fNIRS might be helpful in bridging the explanatory gaps to understanding the cultivation of mental health.

scholarly journals Depolying Tunable Metal-Shell/Dielectric Core Nanorod Arrays as the Virtually Perfect Absorber in the Near-Infrared Regime

ACS Omega ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 7508-7516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Fong Chou Chau ◽  
Chung-Ting Chou Chao ◽  
Chee Ming Lim ◽  
Hung Ji Huang ◽  
Hai-Pang Chiang
Keyword(s):  
Near Infrared ◽  
Perfect Absorber ◽  
Nanorod Arrays ◽  
Metal Shell

scholarly journals Temperature-dependent optical and vibrational properties of PtSe2 thin films

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Desman P. Gulo ◽  
Han Yeh ◽  
Wen-Hao Chang ◽  
Hsiang-Lin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Band Gap ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Phonon Modes ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Infrared Frequency Range ◽  
Indirect Band Gap

Abstract PtSe2 has received substantial research attention because of its intriguing physical properties and potential practical applications. In this paper, we investigated the optical properties of bilayer and multilayer PtSe2 thin films through spectroscopic ellipsometry over a spectral range of 0.73–6.42 eV and at temperatures between 4.5 and 500 K. At room temperature, the spectra of refractive index exhibited several anomalous dispersion features below 1000 nm and approached a constant value in the near-infrared frequency range. The thermo-optic coefficients of bilayer and multilayer PtSe2 thin films were (4.31 ± 0.04) × 10−4/K and (–9.20 ± 0.03) × 10−4/K at a wavelength of 1200 nm. Analysis of the optical absorption spectrum at room temperature confirmed that bilayer PtSe2 thin films had an indirect band gap of approximately 0.75 ± 0.01 eV, whereas multilayer PtSe2 thin films exhibited semimetal behavior. The band gap of bilayer PtSe2 thin films increased to 0.83 ± 0.01 eV at 4.5 K because of the suppression of electron–phonon interactions. Furthermore, the frequency shifts of Raman-active Eg and A1g phonon modes of both thin films in the temperature range between 10 and 500 K accorded with the predictions of the anharmonic model. These results provide basic information for the technological development of PtSe2-based optoelectronic and photonic devices at various temperatures.

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