Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) are promising low-cost solar cells: they can be stacked in multi-junctions, and they are compatible with roll-to-roll…
Singlet exciton fission may find application in more efficient solar cells. Fission can reduce thermalization losses because by splitting the…
Over the last decade, quantum information experiments with trapped ions have demonstrated essential steps towards quantum computing and quantum simulation…
Superconducting nanowire avalanche photodetectors (SNAPs) [1] are based on a parallel architecture that performs single-photon counting with higher signal-to-noise ratio…
The efficient absorption and emission of light is of fundamental importance to the operation of optoelectronic devices such as solid-state…
The strongly coupled states of light and matter in microcavities known as polaritons offer exciting possibilities for the study of…
The low energy density of solar illumination necessitates deployment of solar technologies over large surface areas in order to capture…
Colloidal quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (QD-LEDs) combine the thin film processability of organic materials with the tunable optical properties conferred by…
The non-destructive chemical mapping of surfaces with single-molecule sensitivity and sub-5-nm lateral resolution is an extraordinary challenge. Optical techniques such…
The terahertz frequency range (1-10 THz) has long remained undeveloped, mainly due to the lack of compact, coherent radiation sources….
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are excellent heat spreaders for packaging electronic/photonic devices due to their high thermal conductivity and good mechanical…
We are investigating the performance of low-noise, high-power optoelectronic oscillators (OEO) using all slab-coupled optical waveguide (SCOW) components. The optoelectronic…
Nonlinear optics comprises a rich body of physics that could enable a number of interesting functionalities in integrated silicon photonics…
Low propagation loss deposited waveguides are an important component to enable photonic integration in the majority of high-volume electronics processes….
We are investigating thermoelectric transport in light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Electro-luminescent cooling is a phenomenon in which the optical output power…
There exists great interest in the utilization of the human body as a possible power supply for running such electronics…
Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are optical waves that propagate at the interface between a metal and a dielectric, and can…
We have experimentally demonstrated a monolithically integrated ultra-compact optical isolator on silicon. This device uses a different design strategy from…
We maintain a thin-film laboratory that includes a pulsed-laser deposition (PLD) system and an ultra-high vacuum sputter system. The PLD…
Triblock terpolymers are interesting because they can form a much wider diversity of 3D structures than diblock copolymers, including rings…
A near-ultraviolet (UV) sensor based on zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires (NWs) that is sensitive to photo excitation at or below…
Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) [1] perform single-photon counting in the near‑infrared with outstanding performance. The main limitations of standard…
Luneburg lens is a gradient index (GRIN) element [1] known to produce diffraction-limited focus at the lens edge opposite to…
Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are electronically-quantized systems with promising applications in optoelectronic devices [1] . A key aspect of such…
Exciton transport is universal in every kind of organic optoelectronic devices – including organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and organic solar…
Many on-chip optical applications, including spectroscopy [1] ; sensing [2] [3] ; nonlinear optics [4] [5] [6] ; and optical…
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) are promising low-cost solar cells: they can be stacked in multi-junctions, and they are compatible with roll-to-roll…
In recent years there has been significant interest in broadband, omnidirectional antireflection (AR) nanostructures that minimize Fresnel reflection due to…
Our ongoing research integrating 1.55-µm III-V ridge waveguide gain elements (i.e., diode lasers and semiconductor optical amplifiers) co-axially aligned with…
Optogenetics is commonly used for precision modulation of the activity of specific neurons within neural circuits [1] , but assessing…
The use of magnetic forces to improve fluidic self-assembly of micro-components has been investigated using Maxwell 3D to model the…
Optoelectronic devices intimately integrated on silicon integrated circuits have long been sought for optical intercon-nect applications, optical communications modules, and–more…
Professor Ed Boyden uses light to precisely control neural activity. His lab has invented safe, effective ways to deliver light-gated…