Nanocavity enhancement for ultra-thin film optical absorber.

Song, Haomin; Guo, Luqing; Liu, Zhejun; Liu, Kai; Zeng, Xie; Ji, Dengxin; Zhang, Nan; Hu, Haifeng et al. · Adv Mater · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A fundamental strategy is developed to enhance the light-matter interaction of ultra-thin films based on a strong interference effect in planar nanocavities, and overcome the limitation between the optical absorption and film thickness of energy harvesting/conversion materials. This principle is quite general and is applied to explore the spectrally tunable absorption enhancement of various ultra-thin absorptive materials including 2D atomic monolayers.