Materials for hot carrier plasmonics [Invited]

Tao Gong and Jeremy N. Munday

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2501-2512 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical properties of transiently-excited semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterials

Salvatore Campione, Ting S. Luk, Sheng Liu, and Michael B. Sinclair

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2385-2394 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Gap plasmon-based phase-amplitude metasurfaces: material constraints [Invited]

Anders Pors and Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2448-2458 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Time-varying metasurfaces and Lorentz non-reciprocity

Amr Shaltout, Alexander Kildishev, and Vladimir Shalaev

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2459-2467 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Effective third-order nonlinearities in metallic refractory titanium nitride thin films

Nathaniel Kinsey, Akbar Ali Syed, Devon Courtwright, Clayton DeVault, Carl E. Bonner, Vladimir I. Gavrilenko, Vladimir M. Shalaev, David J. Hagan, Eric W. Van Stryland, and Alexandra Boltasseva

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2395-2403 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Wide tuning of the optical and structural properties of alternative plasmonic materials

Yu Wang, Antonio Capretti, and Luca Dal Negro

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2415-2430 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Sensitivity engineering in direct contact palladium-gold nano-sandwich hydrogen sensors [Invited]

Nikolai Strohfeldt, Jun Zhao, Andreas Tittl, and Harald Giessen

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2525-2535 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Bi-nanorod/Si-nanodot hybrid structure: surface dewetting induced growth and its tunable surface plasmon resonance

Ye Tian, Lianjun Jiang, Yangbao Deng, Shuguang Deng, Guangfu Zhang, and Xuejun Zhang

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2655-2666 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Nonlinear magneto-plasmonics

Wei Zheng, Xiao Liu, Aubrey T. Hanbicki, Berend T. Jonker, and Gunter Lüpke

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2597-2607 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Second harmonic generation with plasmonic metasurfaces: direct comparison of electric and magnetic resonances

Rohith Chandrasekar, Naresh K. Emani, Alexei Lagutchev, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Cristian Ciracì, David R. Smith, and Alexander V. Kildishev

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2682-2691 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Spasers with retardation and gain saturation: electrodynamic description of fields and optical cross-sections

Nikita Arnold, Klaus Piglmayer, Alexander V. Kildishev, and Thomas A. Klar

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2546-2577 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Dynamically controlled plasmonic nano-antenna phased array utilizing vanadium dioxide [Invited]

Gregory Kaplan, Koray Aydin, and Jacob Scheuer

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2513-2524 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Feature issue introduction: plasmonics

Alexandra Boltasseva and Jennifer Dionne

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2698-2701 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature dependent spectroscopic ellipsometry and Raman scattering of PbTiO₃-based relaxor ferroelectric single crystals around MPB region

X. L. Zhang, J. J. Zhu, G. S. Xu, J. Z. Zhang, L. P. Xu, Z. G. Hu, and J. H. Chu

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2478-2490 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication of optical fibers with palladium metallic particles embedded into the silica cladding

Stéphanie Leparmentier, Jean-Louis Auguste, Georges Humbert, Gaëlle Delaizir, and Sylvie Delepine-Lesoille

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2578-2586 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Photo-dynamic Burstein-Moss doping of PbS quantum dots in solution by single and two-photon optical pumping

B. Ullrich, P. Barik, A. K. Singh, E. V. García-Ramírez, and J. A. Reyes-Esqueda

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2431-2436 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Trifluoromethyl-substituted 9,9'-bianthracene derivative as host material for highly efficient blue OLED

Feng Gao, Jingkun Ren, Zhanfeng Li, Shuqing Yuan, Zhaoxin Wu, Yanxia Cui, Huayu Jia, Hua Wang, Fang Shi, and Yuying Hao

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2468-2477 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Luminescent properties of novel red-emitting phosphor: Gd₂O₂CN₂:Eu³⁺

Luting Wang, Shuanglong Yuan, Yunxia Yang, Francois Chevire, Franck Tessier, and Guorong Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2616-2624 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Columnar crystal of Yb:LuPO₄ for high-power miniature rod lasers

Junhai Liu, Xiaowen Chen, Wenjuan Han, Degao Zhong, Shiming Zhang, and Bing Teng

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2437-2442 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Growth, thermal properties, and LD-pumped 1066 nm laser performance of Nd³⁺ doped Gd/YTaO₄ mixed single crystal

Fang Peng, Huajun Yang, Qingli Zhang, Jianqiao Luo, Dunlu Sun, Wenpeng Liu, Guihua Sun, Renqin Dou, Xiaofei Wang, and Xue Xing

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2536-2544 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication of long-period fiber gratings through periodic ablation using a focused CO₂-laser beam

Wenhua Guo, Patrik Holmberg, Fredrik Laurell, and Michael Fokine

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2702-2714 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Hybrid anchoring for a color-reflective dual-frequency cholesteric liquid crystal device switched by low voltages

Yu-Cheng Hsiao, Ivan V. Timofeev, Victor Ya. Zyryanov, and Wei Lee

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2715-2720 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Lithium-rich vapor transport equilibration in single-crystal lithium niobate thin film at low temperature

Huangpu Han, Lutong Cai, Bingxi Xiang, Yunpeng Jiang, and Hui Hu

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2634-2641 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Bend and twist intramolecular charge transfer and emission for selective metal ion sensing

John Canning, Sandra Ast, Md. Arafat Hossain, Hazel Chan, Peter J. Rutledge, and Abbas Jamalipour

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2675-2681 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Scattering suppression in epsilon-near-zero plasmonic fractal shells

Vashista C. de Silva, Piotr Nyga, and Vladimir P. Drachev

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2491-2500 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Surface plasmon enhanced third-order optical nonlinearity of silver nanocubes

Kun Zhang, Zhu-Lin Huang, Hong-Wei Dai, Zong-Wei Ma, Jun-Bo Han, Hong-Mei Gong, and Yi-Bo Han

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2648-2654 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Second harmonic generation microscopy for label-free imaging of fibrillar-like mesostructured polysulfone biomaterials

Ming Ni and Shuangmu Zhuo

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2692-2697 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Electric field induced optical anisotropy of P3HT nanofibers in a liquid solution

G. S. Lobov, Y. Zhao, A. Marinins, M. Yan, J. Li, M.S. Toprak, A. Sugunan, L. Thylen, L. Wosinski, M. Östling, and S. Popov

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2642-2647 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Giant photosensitivity of a-C:Co/GaAs/Ag p-n-metal junctions

Zhangyin Zhai, Ligang Ma, Yucheng Jiang, Qiyun Xie, Fengming Zhang, Xiaoshan Wu, and Ju Gao

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2667-2674 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Nd:YAG optical electronic nonlinearity and energy transfer upconversion studied by the Z-scan technique

D. N. Messias, V. Pilla, A. A. Andrade, and T. Catunda

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2588-2596 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Quantum confinement dependence of exciton localization in a-plane GaN/AlGaN multiquantum wells investigated by temperature dependent photoluminescence

Feng Wu, Jun Zhang, Shuai Wang, Hanling Long, Jiangnan Dai, Zhe Chuan Feng, Zheng Gong, and Changqing Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2608-2615 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Structural and optical properties of Ca_xBa_1-xNb₂O₆ thin films deposited by radio frequency magnetron sputtering

S. Vigne, N. Hossain, S.M. Humayun Kabir, J. Margot, K. Wu, and M. Chaker

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2404-2414 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Morphology, structure and optical properties in TiO₂ nanostructured films annealed at various temperatures: publisher’s note

Bin Wang, Hongji Qi, Hu Wang, Yanyan Cui, Jiaoling Zhao, Jialu Guo, Yun Cui, Youchen Liu, Kui Yi, and Jianda Shao

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2545-2545 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Effective third-order nonlinearities in metallic refractory titanium nitride thin films: publisher’s note

Nathaniel Kinsey, Akbar Ali Syed, Devon Courtwright, Clayton DeVault, Carl E. Bonner, Vladimir I. Gavrilenko, Vladimir M. Shalaev, David J. Hagan, Eric W. Van Stryland, and Alexandra Boltasseva

Opt. Mater. Express 5(11), 2587-2587 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF