The future of humanity and the planet hinges upon our ability to generate clean, economically viable, and ecofriendly sources of energy. Flexible luminescent solar concentrators (FLSCs) have garnered significant inter...
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The future of humanity and the planet hinges upon our ability to generate clean, economically viable, and ecofriendly sources of energy. Flexible luminescent solar concentrators (FLSCs) have garnered significant interest owing to their wide range of potential applications, including, but not limited to, electric vehicle roof panels, camping tents, architectural structures, clothing, and outdoor equipment. In this study, a cheap commercially available polyamide-based epoxy resin was utilized to fabricate FLSCs without the incorporation of any additives (such as fluorescent dyes, quantum dots, etc. FLSCs, as fabricated, present several advantages, such as costeffectiveness, user-friendliness, stability in diverse environmental conditions, and a notable decrease in expense compared to alternative materials employed in LSC production. In comparison to a pure PMMA slab with the same dimensions, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) exhibited a significant improvement of 42.11 %. To investigate the bending effect, the FLSC was bent to a very small radius of curvature of 0.7 cm. The findings showed that the optimum curvature radius, which gives the highest power conversion efficiency, is 1.8 cm, especially for direct normal irradiation. Furthermore, the fabricated FLSCs exhibited 1700 damage-free bending cycles at 45 degrees C(800 bending cycles at room temperature). Also, the results showed that the presented FLSCs have good performance under indoor lighting. Our results show that this epoxy resin can be easily used in all conceivable applications for FLSCs.
This paper presents a novel dual-band waveguide-fed circularly polarised (CP) horn antenna for the feeder of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) onboard microsatellite. The proposed horn antenna consists of an asymmetric l...
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This paper presents a novel dual-band waveguide-fed circularly polarised (CP) horn antenna for the feeder of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) onboard microsatellite. The proposed horn antenna consists of an asymmetric linearly tapered slot and a waveguide feed. The C-/X-band left-hand circular polarisation (LHCP) design was simulated, and the 3D-printed prototype was fabricated to validate the simulation and measured in an anechoic chamber. The measured circularly polarised (CP) antenna can achieve dual-band operations with a 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth of 40% (5-6.5 GHz;8.5-10 GHz), VSWR less than 1.4 in the operating band and a peak gain of 13.6 dBic (5.3 GHz) and 18.5 dBic (9.4 GHz). The measured half-power beamwidth (HPBW) at C-band and X-band frequencies in the xz-plane and yz-plane are achieved at 26 degrees/37 degrees and 18 degrees/23 degrees, respectively. The proposed antenna offers several advantages over current CP antenna designs, including simpler design, low-cost manufacturing, better impedance matching, wider AR bandwidth and lower sidelobe levels.
Integrating metasurfaces on-chip offers a promising strategy for modulating and extracting guided waves, suggesting tremendous applications in compact wearable devices. However, despite the full acquisition of on-chip...
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Integrating metasurfaces on-chip offers a promising strategy for modulating and extracting guided waves, suggesting tremendous applications in compact wearable devices. However, despite the full acquisition of on-chip manipulation of optical parameters, including phase, amplitude, and polarization, the functionality of on-chip metasurfaces remains limited by the lack of wavelength selectivity. Here, an on-chip approach to differentiate wavelength components is proposed in the visible regime for wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). Through horizontally cascading on-chip meta-atoms with structural dimension variation and optimization, different wavelength components propagating along the waveguide would be selectively extracted, realizing meta-demultiplexing functionality. More intriguingly, color nanoprinting images or holographic displays can be correspondingly enabled. This approach surpasses conventional free-space meta-devices in terms of exhibiting improved wavelength-selective allocation and eliminating the energy waste caused by spatial multiplexing. We envision that such an on-chip cascading strategy paves the way for next-generation WDM devices in photonic integrated circuits and wearable miniature meta-displays.
Efficient light coupling into the fiber waveguides is important in numerous applications, while the low in-coupling coefficients of commercially available step-index fibers significantly narrow their application domai...
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Efficient light coupling into the fiber waveguides is important in numerous applications, while the low in-coupling coefficients of commercially available step-index fibers significantly narrow their application domains. It is recently introduced that well-defined periodic nanostructures, such as annulus gratings, allow to substantially boost in-coupling coefficients. In this study, the genetic algorithm is applied for the optimization of trapezoidal polymer gratings. The experimental data showcase multiply enhanced light coupling at preselected incident angles with respect to a bare fiber. As a breakthrough result, the development of an axial-asymmetric four-sector grating, reaching the percentage level of light coupling efficiency in a broad angular range from 0 degrees$<^>{\circ }$ to 70 degrees$<^>{\circ }$ that outperforms axial-symmetric gratings by about order of magnitude. Further, the high average light coupling efficiency is verified in the finite angular intervals at multiple wavelengths of 650, 1000, and 1550 nm. This solution highlights the enhancement of algorithm-designed structures axially-asymmetric systems for fiber-based highly efficient light collections, that will further benefit extensive applications such as wide-field endoscopies.
Plasmonic refractive index sensors are essential for detecting subtle variations in the ambient environment through surface plasmon interactions. Current efforts utilizing CMOScompatible, plasmo-photonic Mach-Zehnder ...
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Plasmonic refractive index sensors are essential for detecting subtle variations in the ambient environment through surface plasmon interactions. Current efforts utilizing CMOScompatible, plasmo-photonic Mach-Zehnder interferometers with active power balancing exhibit high sensitivities at the cost of fabrication and measurement complexity. Alternatively, passive bimodal plasmonic interferometers based on SU-8 waveguides offer cost-effectiveness and a smaller device footprint. However, their waveguides are exposed to ambient conditions and currently lack the necessary opto-mechanical isolation. In this work, we introduce the new SX AR LWL 2.0 polymer cladding material, which provides a high refractive index contrast to the SU-8 core, while ensuring compatibility with SU-8 waveguides. Our sensors consist of an aluminum plasmonic stripe and a bilayer SU-8 photonic waveguide core which is cladded with the SX AR LWL 2.0 polymer. They achieve a sensitivity of (6108 +/- 13) nm/RIU (refractive index unit), where the error indicates the data fitting tolerance, and a limit of detection of 1.6 x 10(-7)RIU, in aqueous solutions, surpassing both traditional and polymer-based bimodal plasmo-photonic sensors. This new cladding material paves the way for more efficient and integrated bimodal plasmonic refractive index sensing platforms for a wide range of applications.
This article presents the design, simulation, microfabrication, and characterization of broadband waveguide terminations intended as drop-in components in waveguide blocks. Two types of terminations were developed, fa...
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This article presents the design, simulation, microfabrication, and characterization of broadband waveguide terminations intended as drop-in components in waveguide blocks. Two types of terminations were developed, fabricated, and characterized. The first type employs a quartz-based E-probe to couple to a waveguide, integrating an on-substrate titanium nitride (Ti-N) alloy resistive absorber with broadband tuning circuitry. This design achieves a return loss of better than 20 dB over the 260-375 GHz frequency range. The second type features a finline to slotline transition, constructed from a 30 mu m thick Si membrane covered with high resistivity Ti-N alloy. This load demonstrates a return loss of better than 20 dB across the 210-380 GHz band. In order to ensure the required performance of the loads at cryogenic temperatures, the sheet resistance of the employed Ti-N resistive film was characterized from room temperature to 4K employing a closed-cycle cryostat and a four-probe measurement system. For comparative purposes, the room temperature performance of terminations employing a traditional Eccosorb material was measured and compared with the proposed waveguide terminations. Furthermore, the sideband rejection ratio of a 2SB superconductor-insulator-superconductor mixer was evaluated at cryogenic temperatures using the proposed finline-based terminations for LO directional couplers and 90 degrees RF hybrids in comparison with the Eccosorb made terminations. The measurements showed that the performance of the proposed terminations outperforms those achieved with Eccosorb absorbers at room temperature and is comparable at cryogenic temperatures.
An accurate technique leveraging conservative higher order time stepping is proposed to analyze electrostatically induced waveguides in graphene. These highly tunable 1-D electronic channels are a promising interconne...
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An accurate technique leveraging conservative higher order time stepping is proposed to analyze electrostatically induced waveguides in graphene. These highly tunable 1-D electronic channels are a promising interconnect alternative for graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to be used in future integrated circuits (ICs). A detailed discussion of the eigenmodes of these waveguides is presented and specific attention is paid to the orthogonality relationships, which are remarkably similar to their electromagnetic counterpart. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the addition of a vector potential does not affect the long-term properties of the time stepping scheme. To showcase the accuracy and applicability of the constructed technique, two practical electronic waveguide devices are simulated: a dot resonator and a 50/50 splitter containing no bends. The dot resonator exhibits frequency-selective behavior that proves to be tunable by both the scalar and vector potentials, while the desired output characteristic is obtained for the splitter after carefully tuning the confining potentials.
An oscillating bound state is a phenomenon where excitations mediated by the continuum modes oscillate persistently. Although it is generated by the superposition of two bound states in the continuum (BICs), such phen...
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An oscillating bound state is a phenomenon where excitations mediated by the continuum modes oscillate persistently. Although it is generated by the superposition of two bound states in the continuum (BICs), such phenomenon is said to be unique to giant atoms. The phenomenon of an oscillating bound state with an alternative waveguide QED system is presented, which is a one dimensional (1D) semi-infinite waveguide coupled to a point-like quantum emitter. This point-like quantum emitter is Lambda-type quantum system with one transition driven by a classical field.
We propose a metal film coated double-dielectric-slab waveguide for guiding THz wave. Detailed comparisons of transmission characteristics of the coated and uncoated double-dielectric-slab waveguides are given. The co...
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We propose a metal film coated double-dielectric-slab waveguide for guiding THz wave. Detailed comparisons of transmission characteristics of the coated and uncoated double-dielectric-slab waveguides are given. The comparisons of different slab materials are also given. We put forward using the measureable cut-off frequency of the coated waveguides for tunable filter. The tunable sensitivities to the thickness of the slab t and the air interval w are discussed. We find that for Polystyrene slab at t=0.0380 mm, the theoretical tunable sensitivity of cut-off frequency on w can be 7.65 THz/mm. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
We address the problem of acoustic propagation in waveguides with wall impedance, or Robin, boundary condition. Two improved multimodal methods are developed to remedy the problem of the low convergence of the series ...
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We address the problem of acoustic propagation in waveguides with wall impedance, or Robin, boundary condition. Two improved multimodal methods are developed to remedy the problem of the low convergence of the series in the standard modal approach. In the first improved method, the series is enriched with an additional mode, which is thought to be able to restore the right boundary condition. The second improved method consists in a reformulation of the expansions able to restore the right boundary conditions for any truncation, similar to polynomial subtraction technique. Surprisingly, the first improved method is found to be the most efficient. Notably, the convergence of the scattering properties is increased from N-1 in the standard modal method to N-3 in the reformulation and N-5 in the formulation with a supplementary mode: The improved methods are shown to be of particular interest when surface waves are generated near the impedance wall. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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