A new dielectric metamaterial building block based on high refractive index silicon spherical nanocavities with Mie resonances appearing in the near infrared optical region is prepared and characterized. It is demonstrated ...
Xifre Perez, Elisabet; Doménech Gómez, José David; Fenollosa Esteve, Roberto; Muñoz Muñoz, Pascual; Capmany Francoy, José; Meseguer Rico, Francisco Javier(Optical Society of America, 2011)
A coupler based on silicon spherical microcavities coupled to silicon waveguides for telecom wavelengths is presented. The light scattered by the microcavity is detected and analyzed as a function of the wavelength. The ...
Garín Escrivá, Moisés; Fenollosa Esteve, Roberto; Alcubilla, Ramón; Shi, Lei; Marsal, L. F.; Meseguer Rico, Francisco Javier(Nature Publishing Group, 2014-03)
[EN] Silicon is the material of choice for visible light photodetection and solar cell fabrication. However, due to the intrinsic band gap properties of silicon, most infrared photons are energetically useless. Here, we ...
Shi, Lei; Fenollosa Esteve, Roberto; TUZER, TURAN UMUT; MESEGUER RICO, FRANCISCO JAVIER(American Chemical Society, 2014)
[EN] Semiconductor photonic microcavities are currently very important elements in the field of photonics. We here report the light-trapping ability of 3D silicon spherical micrometer-sized photonic cavities, which are ...
Rodriguez, Isabelle; Fenollosa Esteve, Roberto; RAMIRO MANZANO, FERNANDO; García-Aboal, Rocío; Atienzar Corvillo, Pedro Enrique; MESEGUER RICO, FRANCISCO JAVIER(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019-09-01)
[EN] High refractive index nanowires are very attractive because of their waveguiding properties and their multiple applications. In this sense, metal halide perovskites, an emerging and appealing optoelectronic
material, ...
[EN] Silicon microspheres produced in gas-phase by hot-wall CVD offer unique quality in terms of sphericity, surface smoothness, and size. However, the spheres produced are polydisperse in size, which typically range from ...
Xifre Perez, Elisabet; Fenollosa Esteve, Roberto; Meseguer Rico, Francisco Javier(Optical Society of America, 2011-02-14)
[EN] Silicon colloids based microcavities, with sphere size between 1 and 3 micrometers, have been synthesized and optically characterized. Due to both the small cavity volume and the high refractive index of silicon we ...
Manjavacas, Alejandro; Fenollosa Esteve, Roberto; Rodriguez, Isabelle; Jiménez Molero, María Consuelo; Miranda Alonso, Miguel Ángel; Meseguer Rico, Francisco Javier(The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017)
[EN] Most optical processes occurring in nature are based on the well-known selection rules for opticaltransitions between electronic levels of atoms, molecules, and solids. Since in most situations themagnetic component ...
Shabir, Q.; Pokale, A.; Loni, A.; Johnson, D. R.; Canham, L.T.; Fenollosa Esteve, Roberto; Tymczenko, Michal Konrad; Rodríguez, Marie-Isabelle; Meseguer Rico, Francisco Javier; Cros, Ana; Cantarero, Andrés(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2011-10)
[EN] Hydrogenated amorphous silicon colloids of low surface area (<5 m(2)/g) are shown to exhibit complete in-vitro biodegradation into orthosilicic acid within 10-15 days at 37 degrees C. When converted into polycrystalline ...
Reflection in a mirror changes the handedness of the real world, and right-handed objects turn left-handed and vice versa (M. Gardner, The Ambidextrous Universe, Penguin Books, 1964). Also, we learn from electromagnetism ...
[EN] It is generally accepted that the magnetic component of light has a minor role in the light-matter interaction. The recent discovery of metamaterials has broken this traditional understanding, as both the electric and ...
[EN] Silicon microsphere photodiodes constitute optoelectronic devices able to provide resonance-enhanced photo -current not only in the visible but also in the near infrared range by virtue of their associated Mie resonances. ...
[EN] Single crystals built up from octahedral Mo-6 cluster units, with appropriate geometry and size, constitute Fabry-Perottype optical microcavities with well-defined resonances. Such resonances appear in the VIS-NIR ...
RAMIRO MANZANO, FERNANDO; García-Aboal, Rocío; Fenollosa Esteve, Roberto; Biasi, Stefano; Rodriguez, Isabelle; Atienzar Corvillo, Pedro Enrique; MESEGUER RICO, FRANCISCO JAVIER(The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020-09-28)
[EN] A precise knowledge of the optical properties, specifically the refractive index, of organic/inorganic perovskites, is essential for pushing forward the performance of the current photovoltaic devices that are being ...
Segura-Sanchis, Elena; Ramiro Manzano, Fernando; Moreno Muñoz, Ana; Fenollosa Esteve, Roberto; Feliz Rodriguez, Marta; Atienzar Corvillo, Pedro Enrique(The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2023-11-09)
[EN] The determination of the photocurrent and photoluminescence properties of single crystals composed by an H-bonded network of hydroxo Mo6X8 (X = Br, Cl) clusters, makes these materials promising in optoelectronics, ...
[EN] We have recently developed a new type of porous silicon we name as porous silicon colloids. They consist of almost perfect spherical silicon nanoparticles with a very smooth surface, able to scatter (and also trap) ...
Meseguer Rico, Francisco Javier; Fenollosa Esteve, Roberto; Rodríguez, Marie-Isabelle; Xifre Perez, Elisabet; Ramiro Manzano, Fernando; Garin, M.; Tymczenko, Michal Konrad(AIP Publishing, 2011-05-15)
We have recently developed a new type of silicon structure that we refer to as a silicon colloid. This new material consists of almost perfectly spherical silicon micro- and nanoparticles with a very smooth surface. They ...
Fenollosa Esteve, Roberto; Garcia-Rico, Eduardo; Alvarez, Susana; Alvarez, Rosana; Yu, Xiang; Rodriguez, Isabel; Carregal-Romero, Susana; Villanueva, Carlos; Garcia-Algar, Manuel; Rivera-Gil, Pilar; de Lera, Angel R.; Parak, Wolfgang J.; Meseguer Rico, Francisco Javier; Alvarez-Puebla, Ramon A.(BioMed Central, 2014-09-16)
[EN] Background: Porous silicon particles (PSiPs) have been used extensively as drug delivery systems, loaded with chemical species for disease treatment. It is well known from silicon producers that silicon is characterized ...
García-Aboal, Rocío; Fenollosa Esteve, Roberto; Ramiro Manzano, Fernando; Rodriguez, Isabelle; Messeguer Rico, Francisco Javier; Atienzar Corvillo, Pedro Enrique(American Chemical Society, 2018-05)
[EN] Synthesis and studies of single crystals of hybrid perovskite are important for achieving a better understanding of the optoelectronic phenomena occurring in this material and for improving ongoing applications. Here, ...
[EN] Shaping silicon as a spherical object is not an obvious task, especially when the object size is in the micrometer range. This has the important consequence of transforming bare silicon material in a microcavity, so ...