nanophotonics – TechConnect Briefs

Indium Nitride Nanowire Growth by Chemical Vapor Deposition and Electrical Characterization

Teker K., Moussa O., Ali Y.A., Otto J., Istanbul Sehir University, TR

The III-nitrides have been intensely studied due to their wide range of applications from high efficiency solid-state lighting and photovoltaics to high-power and high temperature electronics. InN has received great attention due to its unique [...]

Silicon Photonic Temeprature Sensors

Ahmed Z., NIST, US

For the past century, industrial temperature measurements have relied on resistance measurement of a thin metal wire or filament whose resistance varies with temperature. Though resistance thermometers can routinely measure industrial temperatures with uncertainties of [...]

Plasmonic nanophotonics and its applications

Chen K.R., Hong J.S., Goncharenko A.V., National Cheng Kung University, TW

Study of surface plasmnon polariton (SPP) effect is a fundamental scientific cross-disciplinary research area with academic importance and critical application potential. We discuss methods for the manipulation of light and plasmonic properties with nanostructures. With [...]

Mid-IR integrated nanophotonics for chip-scale quantum optics applications

Buchwald W., University of Massachusetts Boston, US

A mid-IR nanophotonic architecture based on inter-sub-band transitions, along with experimental verification of the use of surface depletion as a means to control the host materials absorption properties is presented. Finite element simulations suggest this [...]

Novel Plasmon Coupled Nanophotonic Devices and Sensors Based on Encapsulated 2-D Silver Nanoparticle arrays

Tzeng Y., Liu C-Y, Chui H.C., Huang C., Tu C-H, Chen G.W.L., Chen S., Chen G.W.L., Chen S., Liang K-C, Chu Y., Chui H.C., National Cheng Kung University, TW

2-D silver nanoparticle arrays are encapsulated in transparent materials such as aluminum oxide, diamond, and graphene for applications to plasmonic coupling based optoelectronic devices and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) sensor for detection and identification [...]

Optical Nanotrapping Using Illuminated Metallic Nanostructures: Analysis and Applications

Furlani E.P., Baev A., Prasad P.N., University at Buffalo, US

The interest in optical particle manipulation has grown steadily in recent years especially for applications in the biological sciences where the manipulated objects include cells, organelles, and larger molecules. While micron and sub-micron bioparticles can [...]

Nanoparticle optical memory function

Soares B.F., Bashevoy M.V., MacDonald K.F., Jonsson F., Zheludev N.I., University of Southampton, UK

Light and electron-beam induced structural transformations in nanoparticles of polymorphic metals provide a paradigm for achieving resonator-less optical memory functionality with picojoule energy requirements. We demonstrate optical memory function with gallium nanoparticles grown by light-assisted [...]

Electrical and Optical Nanosensors

Koeck A., Hainberger R., Heer R., Kast M., Maier T., Stepper C., ARC Seibersdorf Research GmbH, AT

Electrical and optical nanosensors for biomedical diagnostics and biochemical analytics are developed. The electrical and optical nanosensors employ nanobelt, nanowire and nanogap structures fabricated on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers. In SOI wafers, a thin silicon layer [...]

Demonstration of Pulsed Silicon Raman Laser

Boyraz O., Jalali B., University of California, Los Angeles, US

Recently, Raman effect in silicon has been pursued for light generation and amplification by utilizing high Raman gain coefficient of silicon. However, free carrier generation due to two photon absorption limited the achieving high Raman [...]