Researchers from from China and Hong Kong have now developed an approach to shrinking Al nanoparticles.
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Flexible Bragg Reflectors for Optical Applications
Spanish group creates materials that combine the intense structural colour achievable with inorganic materials with the mechanical properties of polymers.
International Year of Light: Black Silicon Photovoltaics
This month’s International Year of Light article reviews the optoelectronic properties of black silicon and gives guidelines how to optimize the relevant physical parameters.
Advanced Optical Materials – February Issue Covers
Check out the articles highlighted on the covers of the latest issue of Advanced Optical Materials.
Advanced Optical Materials Top 5 – March 2015
The month’s top articles from the field of nanooptics, optoelectronics, optical devices, detectors & sensors, micro/nano resonators and more.
International Year of Light Article Series
Advanced Optical Materials is joining in the activities of the International Year of Light through publishing a special series of review articles.
Low-cost, large-area plasmonic perfect absorbers
Tunable, angle- and polarization independent absorber fabricated using a combination of colloidal lithography, with disordered arrangement, and dry-etching.
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Researchers have developed a microscale powermeter that directly measures light absorption and heat transfer in individual nanowires.
Modified monolayer graphene interacts strongly with terahertz waves
Confining light into ultra-small metallic gaps dramatically boosts light interaction with graphene.
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