PECASE: New material and design approaches for integrated nano-optical systems
Abstract
Nano-optical devices are playing a major role in physical hardware solutions for the nextgeneration of computational, imaging, sensing, and display technologies. While many of thesetechnologies are showing promise in academic settings, significant improvements in the materials,design, and systems integration of nano-optical components are still required for successfultranslation to industry. We propose to transform the nano-optical system landscape byimplementing new and general routes to optical materials processing and device design. Our focuswill be on three specific topics. First, we will explore the use of single crystal metal-on-insulatorgrowth processes to produce high performance integrated plasmonic systems. Second, we willinvestigate the application of metal-induced-crystallized silicon for visible light metasurfaces.Third, we will implement topology optimization schemes for metagrating, metasurface, and opticalantenna design. These research thrusts represent major paradigm shifts from the current state-of- the-art, where devices are currently designed using inferior starting materials and physicallyintuitive layouts. Our preliminary results yield metrics that already far exceed the current stateof-the-art. We anticipate that the advances from this proposed work will play a significant role inpushing the performance of nano-optical systems to their material and design limits.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Apr 09, 2018
- Source ID
- FA95501810070
Entities
People
- Jonathan A. Fan
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Stanford University
- United States Air Force