Transparent Hybrid Opals with Unexpected Strong Resonance-Enhanced Photothermal Energy Conversion.

ABSTRACT: Photothermal energy conversion is of fundamental importance to applications ranging from drug delivery to microfluidics and from ablation to fabrication. It typically originates from absorptive processes in materials that-when coupled with non-radiative dissipative processes-allow the conversion of radiative energy into heat. Microstructure design provides versatile strategies for controlling light-matter interactions. In particular, the deliberate engineering of the band structure in photonic materials is known to be an effective approach to amplify absorption in materials. However, photonic amplification is generally tied to high optical contrast materials which limit the applicability of the concept to metamaterials such as microfabricated metal-air hybrids. This contribution describes

SUBMITTER: Cang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11468544 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature