Scientists / Open questions
Vladimir M. Shalaev
Nanophotonics; metamaterials
7 questions
Localized optical excitations of fractal metal colloid clusters: light trapping, mode quality factors, absolute field enhancement, and the limits of the near-zone theory
Resonant plasmonic-organic-hybrid electro-optic ring modulators: verifying the terahertz intrinsic bandwidth and realizing the low-loss-metal, system-integrated and reliability-qualified device
Quantitative hot-carrier extraction in TiN/TiO2 plasmonic photoelectrodes: connecting calculated over-barrier generation rates to measured photocurrents and extending to other plasmonic transition-metal nitrides
Experimental validation of titanium nitride broadband metamaterial absorbers for long-term, high-temperature solar-thermophotovoltaic operation: durability, oxidation protection, at-temperature optics, failure modes, and thermal gradients
Quantitative completion of the scale-invariant theory of Raman enhancement in fractal metal clusters
Practical bounds and active loss compensation of photonic density-of-states enhancement in hyperbolic metamaterials
Quantitative electromagnetic validation and geometry optimization of resonant field enhancement in periodic metal nanoparticle arrays for SERS