Researchers at Rice University's Laboratory
for Nanophotonics (LANP), with colleagues at Princeton University, have developed a new method for uniting light - capturing photonic nanomaterials and high - efficiency metal catalysts, creating an «antenna - reactor» plasmonic catalyst.
- Naomi Halas, Director, Rice Laboratory
for Nanophotonics (LANP)
In a find that could transform some of the world's most energy - intensive manufacturing processes, researchers at Rice University's Laboratory
for Nanophotonics have unveiled a new method for uniting light - capturing photonic nanomaterials and high - efficiency metal catalysts.
The innovation, the latest from Rice's Laboratory
for Nanophotonics (LANP), is described online in a paper in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters.
Further discoveries found these breakthroughs could have an impact in areas such as enhanced infrared or molecular spectroscopy, improved functionality
for nanophotonic circuits and devices for use in infrared cameras, detectors and weapons guidance systems, and tailored thermal emission sources.
These results provide the first foray into natural hyperbolic materials as building blocks
for nanophotonic devices in the mid-infrared to terahertz (THz) spectral range.
Scientists from Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), ITMO - University St. Petersburg, Menoufia Uni-versity, University of York, University of St. Andrews, Tyndall - Institute Cork, Sun Yat - sen University Guang - zhou, and Helmholtz - Zentrum Geesthacht realized a novel effect in silicon based optical waveguide chips which were particularly designed and fabricated
for this nanophotonic experiment.
Not exact matches
This could enable frequency selective operation and
nanophotonic circuits, as well as provide an operational material
for mid-infrared imaging of nanoscale objects.
The layered nature also offers an advantage over some other single - photon emitters
for feasible and effective integration into
nanophotonic circuits.
«A
nanophotonic comeback
for incandescent bulbs?
This idyll has now been heavily shaken up by a team of physicists led by Matthias Kling, the leader of the Ultrafast
Nanophotonics group in the Department of Physics at Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, and various research institutions, including the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN - CNR) in Milan, the Institute of Physics at the University of Rostock, the Max Born Institute (MBI), the Center
for Free - Electron Laser Science (CFEL) and the University of Hamburg.
For sustained contributions to the field of biophotonics, spanning over thirty years and encompassing outstanding research, technology development, clinical translation and training and education, in the areas of light dosimetry, photodynamic therapy fluorescence and Raman endoscopy, microscopy and
nanophotonics
The discovery brings the worlds of spintronics and
nanophotonics closer together and might lead to the development of an energy - efficient way of processing data, in data centres,
for example.
We use the power of DNA self - assembly to build and test
nanophotonic devices such as plasmonic waveguides
for application in optical near - field communication, or
for medical diagnostics and therapeutics.
Applications are invited
for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with Professor Marko Loncar on nonlinear and quantum
nanophotonics (http://nano-optics.seas.harvard.edu/).
Joint American - Belarusian Laboratory
for Fundamental and Biomedical
Nanophotonics, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77005, USA; 2.
Researchers are also investigating such
nanophotonic devices as nanoscale lasers, quantum dots
for solar cells and optical materials
for quantum computing.
Silicon photonics, inventor of GHz silicon modulator, novel on - chip
nanophotonics devices, novel micron - size photonic structures
for light manipulation, light confining structures to slow down, enhance, and manipulate light