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Fabricating brightly fluorescent layers with nanometric thickness and digitally controlled lateral structuration remains a challenge for next-generation photonic devices, optical calibration standards, and biocompatible interfaces. Here, we…
High quality AlxGa1-xAs distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) were successfully monolithically grown on on-axis Si (100) substrates via a Ge layer formed by aspect ratio trapping (ART) technique. The GaAs/ART-Ge/Si-based DBRs have…
We demonstrate ink-jet printing as a viable method for large area fabrication of graphene devices. We produce a graphene-based ink by liquid phase exfoliation of graphite in N-Methylpyrrolidone. We use it to print thin-film transistors,…
We present experimental demonstration of a recently predicted path interference phenomenon [Nanophotonics 7, 1687 (2018)]. A SERS process becomes resonant when both incident and the converted frequencies match with two plasmon resonances --…
The sensitivity of perturbation sensing can be effectively enhanced with higher-order exceptional points due to the nonlinear response to frequency splitting. However, the experimental implementation is challenging since all the parameters…
Virtual substrates based on thin Ge layers on Si by direct deposition have achieved high quality recently. Their application to high efficiency III-V solar cells is analyzed in this work. Replacing traditional Ge substrates with Ge/Si…
A mechanism for additional enhancement of SERS in the nanoparticle-on-mirror scheme is proposed. This new mechanism is based on the use of a substrate made of material with a near-minus-one permittivity. The setup involves a plasmonic…
Coded aperture snapshot hyperspectral imaging (CASSI) system which captures 2-D spatial information and 1-D spectral information in just one or two shots has become a promising technology to capture hyperspectral image (HSI). However,…
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is enabled by local surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) in metallic nanogaps. When SERS is excited by direct illumination of the nanogap, the background heating of lattice and electrons can prevent…
Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene, are seen as potential candidates for fabricating electronic devices and circuits on flexible substrates. Inks or dispersions of 2D materials can be deposited on flexible substrates by…
In this letter, we investigate the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communications, under the assumption of generalized Gaussian noise (GGN), over Rayleigh fading channels. Specifically, we consider an RIS,…
Metamaterials--artificially structured materials with tailored electromagnetic response--can be designed to have properties difficult to achieve with existing materials. Here we present a structured metamaterial, based on conducting split…
Creating plasmonic nanoparticles on a tapered optical fiber tip enables a remote SERS sensing probe, ideal for challenging sampling scenarios like biological tissue, specific cells, on-site environmental monitoring, and deep brain…
Resonant cavity LEDs (RCLEDs) exhibit excellent temporal and spatial coherence with narrow spectral linewidth and small divergence angle, which is of great importance for micro-displays. In this paper, we demonstrate a novel method to…
Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) effects on tin dioxide in the form of bulk material, nanostructured thin films and colloidal solutions were investigated. Raman spectra are characterized by the three Raman scattering peaks at 478,…
Trisoctahedral (TOH) shaped Au nanocrystals (NCs) have emerged as a new class of metal nanoparticles (MNP) due to its superior catalystic and SERS activities caused by the presence of high density atomic steps and dangling bonds on their…
The presence of different transcripts of a gene across samples can be analysed by whole-transcriptome microarrays. Reproducing results from published microarray data represents a challenge due to the vast amounts of data and the large…
This paper reports the first study carried out by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) during the galvanostatic electrodeposition (ECD) of copper from an acidic sulphate solution, in the presence of polyethylene glycol (PEG),…
GaAs-based nanowires are among the most promising candidates for realizing a monolithical integration of III-V optoelectronics on the Si platform. To realize their full potential for applications as light absorbers and emitters, it is…
Microdisks and microstadium resonators were fabricated on erbium doped amorphous hydrogenated silicon (a-Si:H<Er>) layers sandwiched in air and native SiO2 on Si substrates. Annealing condition is optimized to allow large emission at 1550…