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Alta Devices, Inc.

Intel Corporation

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University of California

Leland Stanford Junior University

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

University of Illinois

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University of Rochester

Aonex Technologies, Inc.

Harry A Atwater

Gang He

Andreas G Hegedus

Gregg Higashi

Melissa J Archer

Thomas J Gmitter

Isik C Kizilyalli

Seunghoon Han

Nathan S Lewis

Seyed Ali Hajimiri

Sergio Pellegrino

Ruzan Sokhoyan

Ragip Pala

James M Zahler

Duhyun Lee

Ghazaleh Kafaie Shirmanesh

Joshua M Spurgeon

Dennis Callahan

Ho Wai Lee

Emily C Warmann

Muhammad Alam

Yu-Jung Lu

Michael D Kelzenberg

Jeffrey P Bosco

Stewart Sonnenfeldt

Katherine Plass

Georgia Papadakis

Ali Naqavi

Robert H Grubbs

Byunghoon Na

Raymond Weitekamp

Ryan Morrow Briggs

Sean Olson

Manan Arya

Krishnan Thyagarajan

Nicolas Lee

Colton Bukowsky

Yao-Wei Huang

Gregory M Kimball

Phillip R Jahelka

Rebecca D Glaudell

Behrooz Abiri

Henry Ignatius Smith

Florian Bohn

Ruth Amy Brain

Mark Luitzen Brongersma

Michael W Geis

Thomas P Russell

Chanwook Baik

Richard C Flagan

Martin B Barmatz

Shannon W Boettcher

Kenneth A Diest

Eleftherios E Gdoutos

Sisir Yalamanchili

Philippe C Adell

Robert C Lindstedt

Luke Sweatlock

Matthew Sheldon

Axel Scherer

Stephen R Quake

Donald S Gardner

James C Stevens

Lionel Cooper Kimerling

Michal Lipson

Junghyun Park

Hui Nie

Demetri Psaltis

Armand Paul Alivisatos

Ralph G Nuzzo

Sozo Yokogawa

Khurshed Sorabji

Jurgen Michel

Young-Bae Park

Brendan M Kayes

Marty W DeGroot

George I Bourianoff

Chan-Wook Baik

Julia Rosolovsky Greer

Luca Dal Negro

Philippe M Fauchet

Adele Clare Tamboli

Sung Woo Hong

Christopher Scot Daeffler

Thomas L Koch

Henri Lezec

Kaushik Bhattacharya

Carlos Angulo Barrios

Shane Ardo

Garret M Miyake

Slobodan Mitrovic

Marty W Degroot

Guruswami Ravichandran

Roger Hamamjy

Victoria Piunova

Yann Gambin

Vladan Jankovic

Carl V Thompson

Rebekah K Feist

Yan Xia

A light modulating device for modulating incident light in a given wavelength band is provided. The light modulating device may include: a first semiconductor layer; an active layer provided on the first semiconductor layer and having a multiple quantum well structure and a refractive index that is variable according to an electric field applied thereto, and a second semiconductor layer provided on the active layer and including a grating pattern in which a plurality of gratings extending in a first direction are repeatedly arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The light modulating device may have high modulation efficiency owing to guided mode resonance by the grating pattern.

Light modulating device and electronic apparatus using the same

Systems and methods of non-epitaxial high Schottky barriers heterojunction solar cells are described. The high Schottky barriers heterojunction solar cells are formed using non-epitaxial methods to reduce fabrication costs and improve scalability.

Systems and methods for non-epitaxial high Schottky-barrier heterojunction solar cells

Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the invention provide a photovoltaic concentrator tile for a space-based solar power (SBSP) system including constituent components thereof. In a number of embodiments, the photovoltaic concentrator tile include a one photovoltaic cell, a reflector, a power transmitter and circuitry configured to perform a variety of control functions. Embodiments also provide compactible structures, materials for improving thermal emissivity, and methods and mechanisms for manufacturing and using these components.

Ultralight photovoltaic power generation tiles

A membrane for water collection may include a sheet having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a plurality of conical structures disposed on the top surface of the sheet, the conical structures comprising a hydrogel material. Each conical structure of the plurality of conical structures may have a height of 1 mm to 50 mm, wherein height is measured from the top surface of the sheet to an apex of a conical structure. Each conical structure of the plurality of conical structures may have an apex angle of 10 to 60 degrees.

Structured hydrogel membranes for fresh water harvesting

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) technology for the conversion of solar energy into chemicals may require cost-effective photoelectrodes to efficiently and stably drive anodic and/or cathodic half-reactions to complete the overall reactions for storing solar energy in chemical bonds. Apparatus and systems incorporating effectively transparent metal catalysts enable the design and/or implementation of PEC devices for light harvesting. Triple-junction photocathodes with the triangular catalyst grids are provided to improve the efficiency of the photocathodes to generate renewable fuel from sunlight.

Apparatus and systems for incorporating effective transparent catalyst for photoelectrochemical application

Provided are an optical modulating device and a system including the optical modulating device. The optical modulating device includes a substrate, and a phase modulator formed on the substrate and including a Fabry-Perot cavity. The Fabry-Perot cavity of the phase modulator includes a first reflective layer, a second reflective layer, and a tunable core formed between the first reflective layer and the second reflective layer, wherein the tunable core is formed of a semiconductor material and is configured to modulate a phase of light corresponding to modulation of a refractive index of the tunable core according to electrical control.

Fabry-Perot cavity phase modulator including a tunable core, an optical modulating device including the same, and a lidar apparatus including the optical modulating device

The disclosed technology generally relates to characterization of semiconductor structures, and more particularly to optical characterization of high-k dielectric materials. A method includes providing a semiconductor structure comprising a semiconductor and a high-k dielectric layer formed over the semiconductor, wherein the dielectric layer has electron traps formed therein. The method additionally includes at least partially transmitting an incident light having an incident energy through the high-k dielectric layer and at least partially absorbing the incident light in the semiconductor. The method additionally includes measuring a nonlinear optical spectrum resulting from the light having the energy different from the incident energy, the nonlinear optical spectrum having a first region and a second region, wherein the first region changes at a different rate in intensity compared to the second region. The method further includes determining from the nonlinear optical spectrum one or both of a first time constant from the first region and a second time constant from the second region, and determining a trap density in the high-k dielectric layer based on the one or both of the first time constant and the second time constant.

Optical systems and methods of characterizing high-k dielectrics

Electrically tunable metasurfaces including an array of subwavelength metasurface unit elements are presented. The unit elements include a stacked metal-insulator-metal structure within which an active phase change layer is included. A purely insulator, metal, or coexisting metal-insulator phase of the active layer can be electrically controlled to tune an amplitude and phase response of the metasurfaces. In combination with the subwavelengths dimensions of the unit elements, the phase and amplitude response can be controlled in a range from optical wavelengths to millimeter wavelength of incident light. Electrical control of the unit elements can be provided via resistive heating produced by flow of current though a top metal layer of the unit elements. Alternatively, electrical control of the unit elements can be provided via electrical field effect produced by applying a voltage differential between the top and bottom metal layers of the unit elements.

Electrically tunable metasurfaces incorporating a phase change material

Multi-functional coilable thin-walled structures that can be implemented within space-based satellite modules, and methods for their manufacture are provided. Multi-functional coilable thin-walled structures are comprised of at least one longeron that is capable of rolling and collapsing upon itself. In some embodiments, the coilable thin-walled longeron is a flange longeron. The flange longeron contains at least two major regions: a web and a plurality of flanges. The web region comprises portions of flanges that are bonded to one another. The plurality of flanges separate from one another on the same end of the web region. The plurality of flanges are similar in thickness and shape.

Coilable thin-walled longerons and coilable structures implementing longerons and methods for their manufacture and coiling

Systems and methods of three-terminal tandem solar cells are described. Three-terminal metal electrodes can be formed to contact subcells of the tandem solar cell. The three-terminal tandem cell can improve the device efficiency to at least 30%.

Systems and methods for three-terminal tandem solar cells

Fabry-Perot cavity phase modulator including a tunable core between reflective layers, an optical modulating device including the same, and a LIDAR apparatus including the optical modulating device

Resonant optical cavities incorporating black phosphorus to enable electrically tunable control of light are disclosed. Methods and devices are described that use black phosphorus as an electrically tunable optical material to control phase, amplitude and/or polarization of light from visible to mid-infrared wavelengths. The operating wavelength of the optical cavities depends on the thickness of the embedded black phosphorous. Tunable control of light is performed by adjusting the doping level of black phosphorous.

Black phosphorus optical modulators for phase, amplitude and polarization control

Photovoltaics configured to be manufactured without epitaxial processes and methods for such manufacture are provided. Methods utilize bulk semiconducting crystal substrates, such as, for example, GaAs and InP such that epitaxy processes are not required. Nanowire etch and exfoliation processes are used allowing the manufacture of large numbers of photovoltaic cells per substrate wafer (e.g., greater than 100). Photovoltaic cells incorporate electron and hole selective contacts such that epitaxial heterojunctions are avoided during manufacture.

Epitaxy-free nanowire cell process for the manufacture of photovoltaics

A space-based solar power station, a power generating satellite module and/or a method for collecting solar radiation and transmitting power generated using electrical current produced therefrom is provided. Each solar power station includes a plurality of satellite modules. The plurality of satellite modules each include a plurality of modular power generation tiles including a photovoltaic solar radiation collector, a power transmitter and associated control electronics. Numerous embodiments relate to efficient power generation tiles. In one embodiment, an efficient power generation tile includes: at least one photovoltaic material; and at least one concentrator that redirects incident solar radiation towards a photovoltaic material such that the photovoltaic material experiences a greater solar flux relative to the case where the photovoltaic material experiences unaltered solar radiation.

Large-scale space-based solar power station: efficient power generation tiles

Luminescent solar concentrators in accordance with various embodiments of the invention can be designed to minimize photon thermalization losses and incomplete light trapping using various components and techniques. Cadmium selenide core, cadmium sulfide shell (CdSe/CdS) quantum dot ('QD') technology can be implemented in such devices to allow for near-unity QDs and sufficiently large Stokes shifts. Many embodiments of the invention include a luminescent solar concentrator that incorporates CdSe/CdS quantum dot luminophores. In further embodiments, anisotropic luminophore emission can be implemented through metasurface/plasmonic antenna coupling. In several embodiments, red-shifted luminophores are implemented. Additionally, top and bottom spectrally-selective filters, such as but not limited to selectively-reflective metasurface mirrors and polymeric stack filters, can be implemented to enhance the photon collection efficiency. In some embodiments, luminescent solar concentrator component is optically connected in tandem with a planar Si subcell, forming a micro-optical tandem luminescent solar concentrator.

Luminescent solar concentrators and related methods of manufacturing

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Harry A Atwater