The ability to characterize periodic nanostructures in the laboratory gains more attention as nanotechnology is widely utilized in a variety of application fields. Scanning-free grazing-emission X-ray...

Interfacing light from solid-state single-photon sources with scalable and robust room-temperature quantum memories has been a long-standing challenge in photonic quantum information technologies due ...

A differentiable T-matrix-based inverse design framework is presented to tailor the optical response of dispersive time-varying nanostructures. The framework can handle time-varying spheres and spati...

Solid-state quantum light sources based on semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are increasingly employed in photonic quantum information applications. Especially when moving towards real-world scenarios ...

Scatterometry is a tested method for measuring periodic semiconductor structures. As modern semiconductor structures have reached the nanoscale, determining their shape with sub-nanometer accuracy has...

JEOS:RP: Rapid progress in optics and photonics has broadened its application enormously into many branches, including information and communication technology, ...

Photonic resonances frequently arise from the interaction among multiple scatterers. It is shown how prior knowledge of such constituents can be used to compute resonances in nanophotonic systems eff...

Humanity is currently on the cusp of the second quantum revolution, which promises a disruptive increase in the capabilities of quantum technologies. Semiconductor quantum dot-based single-photon sour...

Periodic lattices of high refractive index materials manipulate light in exceptional manners. Resulting remarkable properties range from photonic band gaps to chiral active matter, which critically depend on parameters of crystal lattices such as the unit cell, lattice type, and periodicity. In self-assembled materials, the lattice properties are inherited by the geometry and size of the macromolecules or colloidal particles assembling the unit cell. DNA origami allows for excellent control over the size and shape of assembled macromolecules while simultaneously allowing control over the interaction between them and ultimately the crystal’s structure. Here, we present the assembly of chiral, rhombohedral crystals in one, two, and three dimensions built by a DNA origami tensegrity triangle. Subsequent modification of the lattice with gold nanorods converts the lattices into chiral plasmonic metamaterials active in the visible and near-infrared spectral range. We demonstrate their chiral activity and corroborate the experimental results with simulated data.

Nanotextures improve the optical performance of all-perovskite tandem solar cells. Front textures reduce reflective losses. “Pronounced” textures (750 nm period and 405 nm height) in-between wide-ban...

This study demonstrates that orientational disorder in all-dielectric chiral bilayer metasurfaces suppresses linear birefringence and enables robust circular eigenpolarizations across wide angular an...

Exceptional points are spectral degeneracies in open systems, which have attracted considerable attention in recent years. One reason for the attention is that physical systems with an exceptional poi...