Extraordinary Light-Trapping Enhancement in Silicon Solar Cell Patterned with Graded Photonic Super-Crystals (open access)

Extraordinary Light-Trapping Enhancement in Silicon Solar Cell Patterned with Graded Photonic Super-Crystals

This article explores light-trapping enhancement in newly discovered graded photonic super-crystals (GPSCs) with dual periodicity and dual basis.
Date: December 7, 2017
Creator: Hassan, Safaa; Lowell, David; Adewole, Murthada; George, David; Zhang, Hualiang & Lin, Yuankun
System: The UNT Digital Library
Efficient multiband and broadband cross polarization converters based on slotted Lshaped nanoantennas (open access)

Efficient multiband and broadband cross polarization converters based on slotted Lshaped nanoantennas

This article presents highly efficient reflective cross polarization converters based on metamaterials operating in the infrared regime.
Date: November 14, 2014
Creator: Ding, Jun; Arigong, Bayaner; Ren, Han; Zhou, Mi; Shao, Jin; Lin, Yuankun et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconfigurable Surface Plasmon Polariton Wave Adapter Designed by Transformation Optics (open access)

Reconfigurable Surface Plasmon Polariton Wave Adapter Designed by Transformation Optics

This article proposes a reconfigurable surface plasmon polariton (SPP) wave adapter designed by transformation optics, which can control the propagation of SPP waves on un-even surfaces.
Date: June 18, 2012
Creator: Arigong, Bayaner; Shao, Jin; Ren, Han; Zheng, Geng; Lutkenhaus, Jeffrey; Kim, HyoungSoo et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Holographic fabrication of 3D photonic crystals through interference of multi-beams with 4 + 1, 5 + 1 and 6 + 1 configurations (open access)

Holographic fabrication of 3D photonic crystals through interference of multi-beams with 4 + 1, 5 + 1 and 6 + 1 configurations

This article fabricates 3D photonic crystals or quasi-crystals through single beam and single optical element based holographic lithography.
Date: September 9, 2014
Creator: George, David; Lutkenhaus, Jeffrey; Lowell, David; Moazzezi, Mojtaba; Adewole, Murthada; Philipose, Usha et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simultaneous Direct Holographic Fabrication of Photonic Cavity and Graded Photonic Lattice With Dual Periodicity, Dual Basis, and Dual Symmetry (open access)

Simultaneous Direct Holographic Fabrication of Photonic Cavity and Graded Photonic Lattice With Dual Periodicity, Dual Basis, and Dual Symmetry

This article demonstrates the digital, holographic fabrication of graded, super-basis photonic lattices with dual periodicity, dual basis, and dual symmetry.
Date: June 15, 2017
Creator: Lowell, David; Lutkenhaus, Jeffrey; George, David; Philipose, Usha; Chen, Banglin & Lin, Yuankun
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tuneable complementary metamaterial structures based on graphene for single and multiple transparency windows (open access)

Tuneable complementary metamaterial structures based on graphene for single and multiple transparency windows

Article describes a study examining novel graphene-based tunable plasmonic metamaterials featuring single and multiple transparency windows.
Date: August 22, 2014
Creator: Ding, Jun; Arigong, Bayaner; Ren, Han; Zhou, Mi; Shao, Jin; Lu, Meng et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coupling of Surface Plasmon Polariton in Al-Doped ZnO with Fabry-Pérot Resonance for Total Light Absorption (open access)

Coupling of Surface Plasmon Polariton in Al-Doped ZnO with Fabry-Pérot Resonance for Total Light Absorption

This article presents finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations on total light absorption (TLA) resulting from the coupling of a surface plasmon polariton (SPP) with Fabry-Pérot (F-P) resonance in a three-layer structure consisting of an AZO square lattice hole array, a spacer, and a layer of silver.
Date: April 27, 2017
Creator: George, David; Adewole, Murthada; Hassan, Safaa; Lowell, David; Cui, Jingbiao; Zhang, Hualiang et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Photonic Band Structure and Unit Super-Cell Size in Graded Photonic Super-Crystal on Broadband Light Absorption in Silicon (open access)

Effects of Photonic Band Structure and Unit Super-Cell Size in Graded Photonic Super-Crystal on Broadband Light Absorption in Silicon

Examines the novel optical properties of a graded photonic super-crystal (GPSC) with a large size of unit cell.
Date: May 9, 2019
Creator: Hassan, Safaa; Alnasser, Khadijah; Lowell, David & Lin, Yuankun
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electrically tunable, sustainable, and erasable broadband light absorption in graphene sandwiched in Al2O3 oxides (open access)

Electrically tunable, sustainable, and erasable broadband light absorption in graphene sandwiched in Al2O3 oxides

This article is a study of graphene as an electrically tunable material for switchable devices. Graphene is obtained from graphene oxide during the atomic layer deposition of Al2O3, as confirmed by Raman spectrum.
Date: November 15, 2018
Creator: Adewole, Murthada; Cui, Jingbiao; Lowell, David; Hassan, Safaa; Jiang, Yan; Singh, Abhay et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Broadband light-matter interaction due to resonance cavities in graded photonic super-crystals (open access)

Broadband light-matter interaction due to resonance cavities in graded photonic super-crystals

This article reports the formation of resonance cavities within graded photonic super-crystals (GPSCs) with unit cells formed via a near-uniform central region with eight side graded regions.
Date: August 29, 2019
Creator: Lin, Yuankun; Hassan, Safaa; Sale, Oliver; Alnasser, Khadijah; Hurley, Noah; Zhang, Hualiang et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library