AVS 58th Annual International Symposium and Exhibition
    Energy Frontiers Focus Topic Tuesday Sessions
       Session EN+NS-TuA

Invited Paper EN+NS-TuA7
Photonic and Plasmonic Crystals for Thermophotonics and Energy Conversion

Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 4:00 pm, Room 103

Session: Nanostructured Materials for Thermophotovoltaics, Thermoelectrics & Plasmonics
Presenter: Rana Biswas, Iowa State University & Ames Laboratory - US DOE
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Photonic and plasmonic crystals that have various energy-related applications will be discussed. Metallic plasmonic crystals consisting of an array of nano-holes or nano-pillars on common substrates, with pitch at infrared length scales, have very sharp absorption properties at infrared wavelengths. Such arrays have diverse applications to sensors and thermophotonic applications. The absorption, thermal emission, and angular characteristics from these plasmonic arrays will be described with rigorous scattering matrix simulations and compared to measurements. I will also survey the rich physics underlying plasmonic nano-arrays at optical length scales, and a few energy related applications.