Applications
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Enhanced magnetic dipole emission with Mie-resonant dielectric metasurfaces
Mie-resonant high-index dielectric nanoparticles and metasurfaces can enhance fluorescence from emitters in the near field. This opens opportunities for new, bright nanoscale light sources. JCMsuite has been used in this study to simulating magnetic dipole emission.
A. Vaskin, et al. Manipulation of Magnetic Dipole Emission from Eu3+ with Mie-Resonant Dielectric Metasurfaces. Nano Lett. 19, 1015 (2019).
2019 DOI
Light Sources, Metamaterials, optical resonators and antennas, Light Scattering Computation
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Backscattering suppression in solar cells
Antireflection performance of nanoparticle arrays on top of solar cell stacks has been investigated numerically.
E. Slivina, et al. Insights into Backscattering Suppression in Solar Cells from the Helicity-Preservation Point of View. Phys. Rev. Appl. 12, 054003 (2019).
2019 DOI
Metamaterials, Photovoltaics, optical chirality, Light Scattering Computation
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Optimize rough backreflectors of solar cells
Full wave FEM simulations are used to reliably design light-trapping surface textures.
S. Nanz, et al. Strategy for tailoring the size distribution of nanospheres to optimize rough backreflectors of solar cells. Opt. Express 26, A111 (2018).
2018 DOI Publication link
Metamaterials, Photovoltaics, Light Scattering Computation
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Optimization of free-form shapes using a global optimization method
Optimizing free-form shapes of photonic nanostructures is a high-dimensional problem. A Bayesian optimization algorithm with a hyper-parameter learning routine is applied to optimize the shape of a reflecting meta-surface.
X. Garcia-Santiago, et al. Shape design of a reflecting surface using Bayesian Optimization. J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 963, 012003 (2018).
2018 DOI Publication link
Metamaterials, diffractive optics, Optimization and Parameter Retrieval Methods
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Enhanced Directional Emission from Monolayer WSe2 Integrated onto a Multiresonant Silicon-Based Photonic Structure
Enhanced and directional emission from a WSe2 monolayer integrated onto a silicon photonic structure is demonstrated. FEM simulations support the design of the photonic structure.
H. Chen, et al. Enhanced Directional Emission from Monolayer WSe2 Integrated onto a Multiresonant Silicon-Based Photonic Structure. ACS Photonics 4, 3031 (2017).
2017 DOI
Light Sources, Metamaterials, integrated optics, photonic crystals, quantum optics, Light Scattering Computation
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Negative-permeability electromagnetically induced transparent and magnetically active metamaterials
FEM simultions used in the analysis of optical metamaterials.
K. Tsakmakidis, et al. Negative-permeability electromagnetically induced transparent and magnetically active metamaterials. Phys. Rev. B 81, 195128 (2010).
2010 DOI
Metamaterials, Light Scattering Computation
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Gold helix photonic metamaterials
The dependence of gold helix metamaterial’s chiral optical properties on helix pitch, helix radius, two-dimensional lattice constant, wire radius, number of helix pitches, and angle of incidence are studied systematically using numerical methods.
J. K. Gansel, et al. Gold helix photonic metamaterials: A numerical parameter study. Opt. Express 18, 1059 (2010).
2010 DOI Publication link
Metamaterials, optical chirality, plasmonics, Light Scattering Computation
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Metamaterials at telecommunication and visible frequencies
Excitation of resonances in arrays of gold split ring resonators. Comparison with FEM simulation results gives good agreement and also shows that the structures allow for a negative magnetic permeability.
C. Enkrich, et al. Magnetic metamaterials at telecommunication and visible frequencies. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 203901 (2005).
2005 DOI Publication link
Metamaterials, plasmonics, Light Scattering Computation