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Metamaterial absorber

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Metamaterial graphene photodetector with bandwidth exceeding 500 gigahertz

Yesim Koyaz

Although graphene has met many of its initially predicted optoelectronic, thermal, and mechanical properties, photodetectors with large spectral bandwidths and extremely high frequency responses remain outstanding. In this work, we demonstrate a >500 gigah ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2023

500 GHz field-resolved detection in thin-film lithium niobate devices

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Alessandro Tomasino

In this work, we show the coherent reconstruction of terahertz (THz) transients in thin-film lithium niobate integrated photonics circuits. Our devices modulate the intensity of a probe beam guided through a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) structure, und ...

IEEE2023

Millimeter-wave to near-terahertz sensors based on reversible insulator-to-metal transition in VO2

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Teodor Rosca, Fatemeh Qaderi Rahaqi

In the quest for low power bio-inspired spiking sensors, functional oxides like vanadium dioxide are expected to enable future energy efficient sensing. Here, we report uncooled millimeter-wave spiking detectors based on the sensitivity of insulator-to-met ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

Generation and control of localized terahertz fields in photoemitted electron plasmas

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Simone Gargiulo, Francesco Barantani

Dense micron-sized electron plasmas, such as those generated upon irradiation of nanostructured metallic surfaces by intense femtosecond laser pulses, constitute a rich playground to study light-matter interactions, many-body phenomena, and out-of-equilibr ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Colloidal self-assembly of soft neural interfaces from injectable photovoltaic microdevices

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Zhangjun Huang, Murat Kaynak, Haiyan Jia

Biomimetic retinas with a wide field of view and high resolution are in demand for neuroprosthetics and robot vision. Conventional neural prostheses are manufactured outside the application area and implanted as a complete device using invasive surgery. He ...

2023

Dipole polarizability of time-varying particles

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Theodoros Koutserimpas, Mohammad Sajjad Mirmoosa

Invariance under time translation (or stationarity) is probably one of the most important assumptions made when investigating electromagnetic phenomena. Breaking this assumption is expected to open up novel possibilities and result in exceeding conventiona ...

2022

Integrated photonic circuits for terahertz applications

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

This talk will discuss recent advances in the nascent field of integrated photonic circuits for terahertz applications. This field explores photonic circuit technology to create miniaturized terahertz emitters and detectors by non-linear optical processes ...

IEEE2022

Ultrafast dynamic switching of optical response based on nonlinear hyperbolic metamaterial platform

Jiaye Wu

The pursuit of high-speed and on-chip optical communication systems has promoted extensive exploration of all-optical control of light-matter interactions via nonlinear optical processes. Here, we have numerically investigated the ultrafast dynamic switchi ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

Millimeter-wave to near-terahertz sensors based on reversible insulator-to-metal phase transition in Vanadium dioxide

Fatemeh Qaderi Rahaqi

Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) and terahertz (THz) detection has opened a significant research direction in imaging, sensing, spectroscopy, and ultrafast wireless communication. The sensitivity of the phase transition to electromagnetic waves in Vanadium dioxid ...

EPFL2022

Non-local oddities

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury

Introducing non-local effects to metamaterials increases the complexity of their dispersion relation, which allows carefully designed elastic structures to mimic the peculiar roton behaviour of correlated quantum superfluids. ...

2021

In-series sample methodology for permeability characterization demonstrated on carbon nanotube-grafted alumina textiles

Véronique Michaud, Baris Çaglar, Jacobus Gerardus Rudolph Staal

In-plane permeability of small area (100 × 50 mm) alumina fiber woven fabrics grafted with aligned carbon nanotubes (CNT) was quantified by placing them in series with a glass mat of known permeability during a flow experiment. The methodology was first va ...

2021

Novel Insights into Thin Film Instabilities: From Fundamentals to Metamaterial Applications

Louis Marie Philippe Martin-Monier

The advent of metamaterials, e.g. artificially structured materials with physical properties significantly distinct from their bulk counterparts, has ushered in new perspectives in materials science and photonics, and constitutes today a new research front ...

EPFL2021

Limitations of the Metasurface Diluted-Slab Model

Karim Achouri, Christophe Caloz

In this article, we investigate the possibility to model a metasurface, defined as a zero-thickness sheet of surface polarization currents and described by generalized sheet transition conditions (GSTCs), by a thin slab with a subwavelength thickness and u ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

From Polarizability to Effective Permittivity of Time-Varying Materials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Theodoros Koutserimpas, Mohammad Sajjad Mirmoosa

In this talk, we describe excitation of time-varying dipolar particles (time-modulated meta-atoms) by external time-varying fields from a nonstationary and causal perspective. For a time-harmonic excitation, we introduce a complex-valued function, called t ...

IEEE2020

Direct Observation of Worm‐Like Nanochannels and Emergent Magnon Motifs in Artificial Ferromagnetic Quasicrystals

Dirk Grundler, Sho Watanabe, Vinayak Shantaram Bhat

Quasicrystalline structures and aperiodic metamaterials find applications ranging from established consumer gadgets to potential high‐tech photonic components owing to both complex arrangements of constituents and exotic rotational symmetries. Magnonics is ...

2020

Polariton relaxation and polariton nonlinearities in nonresonantly cw-pumped III-nitride slab waveguides

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Gordon Jens Callsen, Joachim Armand Simonne Ciers

Polariton lasers are mostly based on planar cavities. Here we focus on an alternative configuration with slab waveguide modes strongly coupled to excitons confined in GaN/AlGaN quantum wells. We study experimentally and theoretically polariton relaxation a ...

2020

Analogue computing with metamaterials

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Farzad Zangeneh Nejad

Despite their widespread use for performing advanced computational tasks, digital signal processors suffer from several restrictions, including low speed, high power consumption and complexity, caused by costly analogue-to-digital converters. For this reas ...

2021

Spectrally Selective Mid-Wave Infrared Detection Using Fabry-Perot Cavity Enhanced Black Phosphorus 2D Photodiodes

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Wei Yan

Thin two-dimensional (2D) material absorbers have the potential to reduce volume-dependent thermal noise in infrared detectors. However, any reduction in noise must be balanced against lower absorption from the thin layer, which necessitates advanced optic ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Application of Fundamental In-Body Radiation Limitations to Practical Design of Antennas for Implantable Bioelectronics

Anja Skrivervik, Denys Nikolayev

Fundamental in-body limitations on achievable radiation efficiency could provide decision-making assistance to engineers working on antennas for implantable bioelectronics. In this study, proof-of-concept conformal microstrip antennas are proposed based on ...

IEEE2020

Ultrasensitive hyperspectral imaging and biodetection enabled by dielectric metasurfaces

Volkan Cevher, Hatice Altug, Filiz Yesilköy, Andreas Tittl, Yasaman Jahani, Eduardo Romero Arvelo

Metasurfaces based on resonant subwavelength photonic structures enable novel ways of wavefront control and light focusing, underpinning a new generation of flat-optics devices. Recently emerged all-dielectric asymmetric metasurfaces, composed of arrays of ...

Nature Publishing Group2019