Ognjen Ilic and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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 and Marin Soljačić

    Thermal Emission: Ultrafast dynamic control

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

    Ognjen Ilic, Marinko Jablan, John D. Joannopoulos, Ivan Celanovic, Hrvoje Buljan, and 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, and 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, and 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).