Marcel W. Pruessner, Nathan F. Tyndall, Kyle J. Walsh, Todd H. Stievater
{"title":"Enhanced thermo-optic effects in silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits via polymer claddings","authors":"Marcel W. Pruessner, Nathan F. Tyndall, Kyle J. Walsh, Todd H. Stievater","doi":"10.1117/1.jnp.17.046001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jnp.17.046001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16449,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nanophotonics","volume":"40 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135933830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiband topological states from band fold of photonic crystals","authors":"Fan Bu, Yun-Tuan Fang","doi":"10.1117/1.jnp.17.036014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jnp.17.036014","url":null,"abstract":"To find more simple and universal method to realize the topological photonic crystals (PCs), we use the fold effect of bands of PCs and the Su–Schrieffer–Heeger model. Through the change of structure parameters, a lattice can undergo the transformation from topologically trivial to nontrivial states. The fold effect of bands leads to the multiple topological edge bands, which increase the band width of topological states. Furthermore, the topological corner states can be formed in the designed structure.","PeriodicalId":16449,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nanophotonics","volume":"206 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135437332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance enhancement of thin film solar cells using silver triangular and rectangular grating on the back electrode","authors":"Safa Saminezhad, G. Kiani, Amir Asgharian","doi":"10.1117/1.JNP.17.036002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.17.036002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Thin film solar cells, which are the second generation of solar cells, have recently attracted much attention due to their low cost and abundance of fabrication materials. But due to the reduction in the thickness of the absorber layer in this generation to <0.5 μm, the amount of absorption is greatly reduced and the short circuit current density (Jsh) decreased due to the reduction of the light path length in the semiconductor. Therefore, light trapping is challenging in this generation to compensate for the reduced short circuit current. In this work, crystalline and amorphous silicon thin film solar cells, which are types of thin film solar cells have been investigated. In this study, using silver metal gratings with triangular and rectangular shapes on the back electrode of the solar cell, we investigated the effect of the grating structure on increasing absorption of the solar cell. Crystalline silicon (c-Si) and amorphous silicon (a-Si) have been used as absorber layer material due to their unique characteristics, such as low cost, abundance, and well established. The results show that by applying the optimal structure of grating in crystalline silicon solar cells, compared with the simple solar cell, the efficiency and short current of the cell increased from 8.87% and 16.81 (mA / cm2) to 13.34% and 24.78 (mA / cm2), respectively. And for the solar cell with amorphous silicon absorber layer, this increase in efficiency and short circuit current has reached from 14.75% and 28.74 (mA / cm2) to 15.22% and 29.6 (mA / cm2), respectively. This increase in electrical parameters of solar cells illustrates the positive effects of back grating structures in improvement of solar cell performance.","PeriodicalId":16449,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nanophotonics","volume":"17 1","pages":"036002 - 036002"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44722488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Majid Ghadrdan, Mojtaba Shahraki, Mohammad Ali Mansouri-Birjandi
{"title":"Plasmonic switch based on asymmetric cavities with embedding square of gold inside the cavities","authors":"Majid Ghadrdan, Mojtaba Shahraki, Mohammad Ali Mansouri-Birjandi","doi":"10.1117/1.jnp.17.036004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jnp.17.036004","url":null,"abstract":"We proposed an all-optical plasmonic switch based on metal-insulator-metal structures. We used the intrinsic nonlinear properties of gold to implement the switch. The proposed switch consists of a bus waveguide side coupled with a pair of asymmetric vertical cavities. We obtained the transmission spectrum of the structure for low input intensities. The results showed that a sharp dip occurs at the wavelength of 860 nm. Due to the nonlinear properties of gold and the nonlinear Kerr effects, the proposed switch has a high transmission ratio of about 0.8 mW / μm2 and a low threshold power of 0.07 mW / μm2. The threshold power of the structure with and without using the gold nanostructure shows a reduction of 50%. The result showed that the proposed switch has the potential to be applied in the plasmonic integration circuits.","PeriodicalId":16449,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nanophotonics","volume":"21 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138508907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sandwich heterostructure of transition metal dichalcogenide/graphene as tunable lateral reflection shifter","authors":"Maryam Zoghi","doi":"10.1117/1.JNP.17.036012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.17.036012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. The advent of nanotechnology has led to the inevitable need for miniaturization in optoelectronic devices. To achieve this goal, materials with low thickness, conductivity, and transparency, as well as a larger active area, must be developed. Experiments have proven that the opto-electrical properties of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD)/graphene combinations are highly tunable. On the other hand, a notable feature of light when reflecting from an interface is its spatial and angular displacements. The “lateral shift” in the incident plane, referred to as the Goos–Hanchen (GH) shift, has garnered significant interest among researchers owing to its extensive range of applications. In our work, an atomically thin TMD/graphene/TMD sandwich heterostructure is proposed, and its spatial and angular GH shifts are investigated. The theoretical analysis includes various TMD materials such as MoSe2, MoS2, WSe2, and WS2. A detailed study of the effects of wavelength, polarization, incident angle, and number of TMD layers in symmetric and asymmetric structures suggests that this hybrid can serve as an ultrathin broadband tunable sensor in optical devices.","PeriodicalId":16449,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nanophotonics","volume":"17 1","pages":"036012 - 036012"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46066978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Soumyashree S. Panda, Sushil Kumar, D. Tripathi, R. Hegde
{"title":"Deep learning aids simultaneous structure–material design discovery: a case study on designing phase change material metasurfaces","authors":"Soumyashree S. Panda, Sushil Kumar, D. Tripathi, R. Hegde","doi":"10.1117/1.JNP.17.036006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.17.036006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. The capabilities of modern precision nanofabrication and the wide choice of materials [plasmonic metals, high-index dielectrics, phase change materials (PCM), and 2D materials] make the inverse design of nanophotonic structures such as metasurfaces increasingly difficult. Deep learning is becoming increasingly relevant for nanophotonics inverse design. Although deep learning design methodologies are becoming increasingly sophisticated, the problem of the simultaneous inverse design of structure and material has not received much attention. In this contribution, we propose a deep learning-based inverse design methodology for simultaneous material choice and device geometry optimization. To demonstrate the utility of the proposed method, we consider the topical problem of active metasurface design using PCMs. We consider a set of four commonly used PCMs in both fully amorphous and crystalline material phases for the material choice and an arbitrarily specifiable polygonal meta-atom shape for the geometry part, which leads to a vast structure/material design space. We find that a suitably designed deep neural network can achieve good optical spectrum prediction capability in an ample design space. Furthermore, we show that this forward model has a sufficiently high predictive ability to be used in a surrogate-optimization setup resulting in the inverse design of active metasurfaces of switchable functionality.","PeriodicalId":16449,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nanophotonics","volume":"17 1","pages":"036006 - 036006"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44357234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sudipta Kumari Panigrahy, Preeti Das, S. K. Tripathy
{"title":"Agricultural soil health monitoring using photonic crystal fiber based on combined principles of surface plasmon resonance and interferometry for lead ion detection","authors":"Sudipta Kumari Panigrahy, Preeti Das, S. K. Tripathy","doi":"10.1117/1.JNP.17.036013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.17.036013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. To monitor the health of agricultural soil, lead (Pb2 + ) ion measurement is essential. The various sensors for lead ion detection reported in the literature earlier are either expensive or have complicated designs. This inspired us to propose a fiber optic sensor that is simple in design, less expensive, and more efficient. A photonic crystal fiber (PCF)-unclad single mode fiber (SMF)-PCF hybrid configuration makes up the suggested sensor, and the sensing mechanism is based on a synergistic application of surface plasmon resonance and interferometry. It is shown that the suggested structure is easy to use for Pb2 + ion detection, in addition to other advantages in limit of detection (LOD) and sensitivity. The proposed structure is optimized to attain a LOD of 8.32 mg / kg, which is much less than the permissible limit of Pb2 + ions permitted in healthy agricultural soil, i.e., 100 to 400 mg / kg. Additionally, a polymer that is attached atop the gold layer and to which only Pb2 + ions can adhere ensures the sensor’s specificity. To the best of our knowledge, our proposed optical fiber-based sensor design and approach adopted to detect lead ions in agricultural soil are the first of their kind.","PeriodicalId":16449,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nanophotonics","volume":"17 1","pages":"036013 - 036013"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43400233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ricardo A. Fiallo, Chengzhi Li, A. Lakhtakia, M. Horn
{"title":"On temporally periodic physical vapor deposition on random rough surfaces (Erratum)","authors":"Ricardo A. Fiallo, Chengzhi Li, A. Lakhtakia, M. Horn","doi":"10.1117/1.jnp.17.039901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jnp.17.039901","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Publisher’s note corrects a typographical error in a figure.","PeriodicalId":16449,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nanophotonics","volume":"17 1","pages":"039901 - 039901"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44572488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Babak Moeinimaleki, Kaveh Moeinimaleki, Z. Mardani, S. Karamzadeh
{"title":"Design and simulation of refractive index sensor based on suspended composite hybrid plasmonic waveguide for sensing mass density of polarizable hydrogen gas","authors":"Babak Moeinimaleki, Kaveh Moeinimaleki, Z. Mardani, S. Karamzadeh","doi":"10.1117/1.JNP.17.036003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.17.036003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Hybrid plasmonic waveguides (HPWs) are capable of supporting subwavelength optical modes. In a composite HPW (CHPW), the propagation loss can be minimized by adjusting the geometrical parameters of its component layers to reduce field flux inside its lossy metal layer. A ring resonator-based plasmonic sensor based on a waveguide structure of suspended CHPW (SCHPW) is designed for gas sensing applications. SCHPWs are applied for the introduced sensor’s 200-nm-wide bus waveguide and 1-μm-radius ring resonator. The operational parameters of the sensor, such as sensitivity and figure of merit (FOM), are investigated in the near-infrared region using a three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain method. For two considered resonances of the proposed sensor, sensitivities of 236.2 and 270 nm / RIU with FOMs of 67.4 and 37.5 RIU − 1 are achieved, respectively. Additionally, for the proposed sensor, a straightforward mechanism for sensing the mass density of the polarizable hydrogen gas is introduced using the theoretical index–density relation of Lorentz–Lorenz. The mass density sensitivities of 358.2 and 409.3 nm / ( g / cm3 ) are achieved for the two considered resonances for the hydrogen gas at the range of 0 to 0.05 g / cm3.","PeriodicalId":16449,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nanophotonics","volume":"17 1","pages":"036003 - 036003"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46462949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}