Publications

Matt Stein, Sam Keller, Yujie Luo, Ognjen Ilic

Shaping contactless radiation forces through anomalous acoustic scattering

Nature Communications, 13, 6533 (2022). [Top 25 Physics Articles of 2022]

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Featured in University of Minnesota News, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), KSTP Eyewitness News, Phys.Org, Tech Xplore, IMechE, Sciences et Avenir (in French), Donga Science (in Korean), and elsewhere.
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Mohammad Eslamisaray, Parker Wray, Yeonjoo Lee, Gunnar Nelson, Ognjen Ilic, Harry Atwater, Uwe Kortshagen

A single-step bottom-up approach for synthesis of highly uniform Mie-resonant crystalline semiconductor particles at visible wavelengths

Nano Letters, 23, 1930 (2023).



Ramon Gao, Michael Kelzenberg, Yonghwi Kim, Ognjen Ilic, Harry Atwater

Optical characterization of silicon nitride metagrating-based lightsails for self-stabilization

ACS Photonics, 9, 1965 (2022).



Parker Wray, Mohammad Eslamisaray, Gunnar Nelson, Ognjen Ilic, Uwe Kortshagen, Harry Atwater

Broadband, angle- and polarization-invariant antireflective and absorbing films by a scalable synthesis of monodisperse silicon nanoparticles

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 14, 23624 (2022).



Avinash Kumar, Daniel Kindem, Ognjen Ilic

Optomechanical self-stability of freestanding photonic metasurfaces

Phys. Rev. Applied, 16, 014053 (2021).



Ye Shi, Ognjen Ilic, Harry Atwater, Julia Greer

All-day fresh water harvesting by microstructured hydrogel membranes

Nature Communications, 12, 2797 (2021).



Megan Phelan, David Needell, Haley Bauser, Hanxiao Su, Michael Deceglie, San Theingi, Brent Kosher, Zach Nett, Colton Bukowsky, Ognjen Ilic, Paul Stradins, John Geisz, Ralph Nuzzo, A. Paul Alivisatos, Harry Atwater

Outdoor performance of a tandem InGaP/Si photovoltaic luminescent solar concentrator

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 223, 110945 (2021).



Ognjen Ilic

Nanophotonic materials for space applications

MRS Bulletin, 45(9), p.769 (2020).

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Invited article in the bulletin of the Materials Research Society. [arXiv]



Ognjen Ilic, Harry Atwater

Self-stabilizing photonic levitation and propulsion of nanostructured macroscopic objects

Nature Photonics, 13(4), p.289 (2019).

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Featured in Caltech News, also in Nature Photonics News & Views. Highlighted on the journal cover of the Apr. 2019 issue: “Optical Propulsion: Stable Flight”



David Needell, Colton Bukowsky, Sunita Darbe, Haley Bauser, Ognjen Ilic, Harry Atwater

Spectrally matched quantum dot photoluminescence in GaAs-Si tandem luminescent solar concentrators

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 9(2), p.397 (2019).



Ognjen Ilic, Cora Went, Harry Atwater

Nanophotonic heterostructures for efficient propulsion and radiative cooling of light sails

Nano Letters, 18(9), p.5583 (2018).



Harry Atwater, Artur Davoyan, Ognjen Ilic, Deep Jariwala, Michelle Sherrott, Cora Went, William Whitney, Joeson Wong

Materials challenges for the Starshot lightsail

Nature Materials, 17, p.861 (2018).

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Highlighted in the Editorial and selected as the journal cover of the Oct. 2018 issue; also in Scientific American, Ars Technica, Phys.Org, and elsewhere. [more info]



Ognjen Ilic, Nathan Thomas, Thomas Christensen, Michelle Sherrott, Marin Soljačić, Austin Minnich, Owen Miller, Harry Atwater

Active radiative thermal switching with graphene plasmon resonators

ACS Nano, 12(3), p.2474 (2018).



David Needell, Ognjen Ilic, Colton Bukowsky, Zachary Nett, Lu Xu, Junwen He, Haley Bauser, Benjamin Lee, John Geisz, Ralph Nuzzo, A. Paul Alivisatos, Harry Atwater

Micro-optical tandem luminescent solar concentrators

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 8(6), p.1560 (2018).



Duncan Wheeler, Yichen Shen, Yi Yang, Svetlana Boriskina, Yi Huang, Ognjen Ilic, Gang Chen, Marin Soljačić

Semi-transparent solar cell enabled by frequency selective light trapping

ArXiv:1802.01645 (2018).



Ognjen Ilic, Ido Kaminer, Bo Zhen, Owen Miller, H. Buljan, Marin Soljačić

Topologically enabled optical nanomotors

Science Advances, 3(6), e1602738 (2017).

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Featured in MIT News (front page Spotlight on 7/3/2017).



Owen Miller, Ognjen Ilic, Thomas Christensen, M.T. Homer Reid, Harry Atwater, J. D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić, S.G. Johnson

Limits to the optical response of graphene and two-dimensional materials

Nano Letters 17(9), p.5408 (2017).



Arny Leroy, B. Bhatia, Kyle Wilke, Ognjen Ilic, M. Soljačić, Evelyn Wang

Combined selective emitter and filter for high performance incandescent lighting

Applied Physics Letters 111, 094103 (2017).



Ido Kaminer, Y. Katan, Hrvoje Buljan, Y. Chen, Ognjen Ilic, Josue Lopez, L.J. Wong, J. D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić

Efficient plasmonic emission by the quantum Čerenkov effect from hot carriers in graphene

Nature Communications, 7, 11880 (2016).

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Featured in MIT News (6/13/2016).



Ognjen Ilic, Ido Kaminer, Yoav Lahini, Hrvoje Buljan, Marin Soljačić

Exploiting optical asymmetry for controlled guiding of particles with light

ACS Photonics, 3(2), p.197 (2016). [Video]



Ognjen Ilic, Peter Bermel, Gang Chen, John D. Joannopoulos, Ivan Celanovic, Marin Soljačić

Tailoring high-temperature radiation and the resurrection of the incandescent source

Nature Nanotechnology, 11, p.320 (2016).

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Featured in MIT News (front page Spotlight on 1/12/2016), The Economist, Science/AAAS, Science Friday, BBC News, NBC News, Physics Today, Optics & Photonics News, Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, and elsewhere. [more info]



L.J. Wong, Ido Kaminer, Ognjen Ilic, J. D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić

Towards graphene plasmon-based free-electron IR to X-ray sources

Nature Photonics, 10, p.46 (2016).

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Featured in MIT News (front page Spotlight on 11/25/2015), Nature Photonics News & Views.



Ognjen Ilic, Marin Soljačić

Thermal Emission: Ultrafast dynamic control

Nature Materials, 13, p.920 (2014).



Ognjen Ilic, Marinko Jablan, John D. Joannopoulos, Ivan Celanovic, Hrvoje Buljan, Marin Soljačić

Near-field thermal radiation transfer controlled by plasmons in graphene

Physical Review B, 85, 155422 (2012).



Ognjen Ilic, Marinko Jablan, John D. Joannopoulos, Ivan Celanovic, Marin Soljačić

Overcoming the black body limit in plasmonic and graphene near-field thermophotovoltaic systems

Optics Express, 20, A366-A384 (2012).



Alejandro Rodriguez, Ognjen Ilic, Peter Bermel, Ivan Celanovic, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić, Steven G. Johnson

Frequency-selective near-field radiative heat transfer between photonic-crystal slabs: a computational approach for arbitrary geometries and materials

Physical Review Letters, 107, 114302 (2011).