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    Area of Science:

    • Nanophotonics
    • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces

    Background:

    • High-performance light trapping is crucial for integrating multifunctional photonic components at subwavelength scales.
    • Reducing optical losses in nanodevices remains a significant challenge in nanophotonics.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To design and fabricate aluminum-shell-dielectric gratings for high-performance light trapping.
    • To achieve broadband and large angular tuning of light absorption with reduced optical losses.
    • To develop an ultrasensitive nonlinear optical method for quantifying energy transfer.

    Main Methods:

    • Fabrication of aluminum-shell-dielectric gratings using low-loss aluminum and metal-dielectric-metal designs.
    • Investigation of substrate-mediated plasmon hybridization as the light-trapping mechanism.
    • Development and application of plasmon-enhanced second-harmonic generation (PESHG) for energy transfer quantification.

    Main Results:

    • Demonstrated nearly perfect light absorption with broadband and large angular tuning ranges.
    • Identified substrate-mediated plasmon hybridization as the key mechanism for energy trapping and redistribution.
    • Successfully quantified energy transfer from metal to dielectric components using PESHG.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed aluminum-shell-dielectric gratings offer high-performance light trapping with minimized optical losses.
    • Substrate-mediated plasmon hybridization is a viable mechanism for engineered light absorption.
    • The PESHG technique provides an ultrasensitive method for analyzing energy dynamics in nanophotonic devices.