Unfortunately, this book cant be printed from the openbook. Plasmonics applied albert polman applied physics center for nanophotonics, fominstitute amolf, kruislaan 407, 1098 sj amsterdam, netherlands. Pioneers of plasmonics and nanophotonics for photovoltaics. Prospects of subwavelength confinement and enhancement of optical fields near properly designed nanoscale objects has been a motivation to extensively investigate a variety of plasmonic optical phenomena in recent years. Publications news features products technologies media education careers webinars events. Albert polman, utrecht university, the netherlands annual reports. In particular, the frequency dispersion of a surface plasmon polariton spp.
Albert polman born 21 april 1961, groningen is a dutch physicist and former director of the. By engineering the plasmonic waveguide geometry, the plasmon dispersion can be dramatically varied. Atwater and polman receive the julius springer prize. Harry atwater and albert polman received the annual julius springer prize for applied physics. Harry atwater at the california institue of technology and albert polman at fom institute amolf in the netherlands will receive the julius springer prize for applied physics for their achievements in plasmonics and novel nanophotonic routes to ultrahighefficiency solar energy conversion. Electron beam lithography, focused ion beam milling, and selfassembly have provided routes to. Pascal melchior, deirdre kilbane, ernst jan vesseur, albert polman, and martin aeschlimann, photoelectron imaging of modal interference in plasmonic whispering gallery cavities, opt. Femius koenderink,1 andrea alu,1,2 albert polman1 the study of light at the nanoscale has become a vibrant field of research, as researchers now master the flow of light at length scales far below the optical wavelength, largely surpassing the classical limits imposed by diffraction. They can theoretically encode a lot of information, more than whats possible for conventional electronics.
Pdf version of 1991 publication on optical doping archived 20110724 at the wayback machine. Nanophotonic contacts, which increase the efficiency of ultrathin cuin 1. Pdf plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices scinapse. Congratulations to loza on her role as cochair of the gordon research seminar on plasmonics and nanophotonics, engineering nanoscale lightmatter interactions for energy, communication and biomedical applications to be held july 1112. Surface plasmon polaritons are electromagnetic waves that propagate at the interface between a metal and a dielectric. Now plasmonics researchers are turning their attention to photovoltaics, where design approaches based on plasmonics can be used to improve absorption in photovoltaic devices, permitting a considerable reduction in the physical thickness of solar photovoltaic absorber layers, and yielding new options for solarcell design. Ab initio phonon coupling and optical response of hot electrons in plasmonic metals. Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices materials. The field of plasmonics encompasses the science and engineering of optical interaction with nanostructures. The emerging field of plasmonics has yielded methods for guiding and localizing light at the nanoscale, well below the. Albert polman, collaborate to develop novel photovoltaic energy conversion concepts based on nanotechnology. In addition to the research itself, in july 2005, muri investigators albert polman and harry atwater founded a gordon research conference on plasmonics. Atwater,2 and albert polman1 1center for nanophotonics, fom institute amolf, science park 104, 1098 xg amsterdam, the netherlands 2thomas j. Dionne, and luke sweatlock mrs bulletin, may 2005, pp 385389.
Plasmonics enables photonic access to the nanoworld harry a. Mark brongersma, materials science and engineering, stanford university. T he ability to engineer metal surfaces and particles at the nanoscale has led to the rapid development of the field of plasmonics, the optical properties of metal structures at the nanoscale. Light trapping in ultrathin plasmonic solar cells vivian e. Optics at the nanoscale find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Osa plasmonics from nanoscale integrated circuits to. Atwater, thomas watson, california institute of technology. Numerical methods and device applications thesis by luke a.
In this thesis we explore the use of designed plasmonic nanostructures to. The programme focuses on the study of novel physical concepts and. Pdf plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices researchgate. Under her supervision i have practiced the art of developing abstract concepts into concrete research projects, mentored students, and collaborated widely with both. Optoelectronic and ultraviolet plasmonics by mark william knight. Pdf on jan 31, 2005, albert polman and others published plasmonics. If you need to print pages from this book, we recommend downloading it as a pdf. Davide pincini, claudio mazzoli, hendrik bernhardt, christian katzer, frank schmidl, ingo uschmann and carsten detlefs, crystallographic investigation of au nanoparticles embedded in a srtio3 thin film for plasmonics applications by means of synchrotron radiation, journal of applied physics, 117, 10, 105305, 2015. We are testing a new system for linking publications to authors. Atwater also served as principal editor for a special issue on plasmonics of the ieee journal of selected topics in quantum electronics. The 2006 gordon research conference on plasmonics will be held in keene, nh. Albert polman abstract the emerging field of plasmonics has yielded methods for guiding and localizing light at the nanoscale, well below the scale of the wavelength of light in free space.
Design guidelines for efficient plasmonic solar cells. Now plasmonics researchers are turning their attention to photovoltaics, where design approaches based on plasmonics can be used to improve absorption in photovoltaic devices, permitting a considerable reduction in the physical thickness of solar photovoltaic absorber layers, and yielding new options for. He is professor of photonic materials for photovoltaics at the university of amsterdam. Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices albert polmans. Tunable nanoscale localization of energy on plasmon particle arrays, r. However, the dense irregular nanoparticle np ensembles fabricated by molecularbeam epitaxy make optical measurements of individual particles challenging. Watson laboratories of applied physics, california institute of technology, pasadena, california 91125, usa. The emerging field of plasmonics has yielded methods for guiding and localizing light at the nanoscale, well below the scale of the wavelength of light in free space. Jen, michal and mark present at the acs national meeting in san diego. If you notice any inaccuracies, please sign in and mark papers as correct or incorrect matches.
Surface plasmons are optically induced oscillations of the free electrons at the surface of a metal. Plasmonicsplasmonics the newer technology that enables faster world 1 k. Plasmonics in atomically thin crystalline silver films. The new contact, consisting of a silica nanoparticle array on indium tin oxide, works by. Plasmonics enables photonic access to the nanoworld volume 30 issue 5 harry a. Albert polman is a group research leader at the fom institute amolf in amsterdam, the netherlands, where he heads the program light management in new photovoltaic materials. Osa photoelectron imaging of modal interference in. They can enhance the absorption and modify the external quantum efficiency of the coupled system. Using metallic and dielectric nanostructures precisely sculpted into twodimensional 2d and 3d nanoarchitectures, light can be scattered, refracted, confined.
Plasmonic hot carrier dynamics in solidstate and chemical. A photovoltaic device structure based on internal electron emission. Plasmonics is thought to embody the strongest points of both optical and electronic data transfer, allowing the fast transmission of information over very small wires. Now plasmonics researchers are turning their attention to photovoltaics, where design approaches based on plasmonics can be used to improve absorption in photovoltaic devices, permitting a considerable reduction in the physical. To evaluate the possibility of using plasmonics to enhance the light emission of a phosphorconverted led device and create an efficient directional light source, regular arrays of aluminium nanoparticles.
If you identify any major omissions or other inaccuracies in the publication list, please let us know. Here, we explore the emergence of spontaneous emission control by finitesized hexagonal arrays of nanoapertures milled in gold film. Plasmonic nanostructures are known to influence the emission of nearby emitters. Polman received his masters degree in physics 1985 and his ph. Atwater in photonics, metals are not usually thought of as being very useful, except perhaps as mirrors. Pdf on jan 31, 2005, albert polman and others published. Article views are the countercompliant sum of full text article downloads since november 2008 both pdf and html across all institutions and individuals. Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices nature. Albert polman, utrecht university, the netherlands annual reports 2012 progress report pdf.