Publications

Shaping contactless radiation forces through anomalous acoustic scattering
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Featured in University of Minnesota News, ASME, KSTP Eyewitness News, Phys.Org, Tech Xplore, IMechE, Sciences et Avenir (in French), and elsewhere.
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Optical characterization of silicon nitride metagrating-based lightsails for self-stabilization

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

Optomechanical self-stability of freestanding photonic metasurfaces

All-day fresh water harvesting by microstructured hydrogel membranes

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

Nanophotonic materials for space applications
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Invited article in the bulletin of the Materials Research Society. [arXiv]

Self-stabilizing photonic levitation and propulsion of nanostructured macroscopic objects
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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”

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

Nanophotonic heterostructures for efficient propulsion and radiative cooling of light sails

Materials challenges for the Starshot lightsail
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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]

Active radiative thermal switching with graphene plasmon resonators

Micro-optical tandem luminescent solar concentrators

Semi-transparent solar cell enabled by frequency selective light trapping

Topologically enabled optical nanomotors

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

Combined selective emitter and filter for high performance incandescent lighting

Efficient plasmonic emission by the quantum Čerenkov effect from hot carriers in graphene
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Featured in MIT News (6/13/2016).

Exploiting optical asymmetry for controlled guiding of particles with light

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

Towards graphene plasmon-based free-electron IR to X-ray sources
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Featured in MIT News (front page Spotlight on 11/25/2015), Nature Photonics News & Views.

Thermal Emission: Ultrafast dynamic control

Near-field thermal radiation transfer controlled by plasmons in graphene

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

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