Browsing by Author "Lail, Brian A."
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Antenna coupled detectors for 2D staring focal plane arrays
Gritz, Michael A.; Kolasa, Borys P.; Lail, Brian A.; Burkholder, Robert J.; Chen, Leonard (2013-06-04)Millimeter-wave (mmW)/sub-mmW/THz region of the electro-magnetic spectrum enables imaging thru clothing and other obscurants such as fog, clouds, smoke, sand, and dust. Therefore considerable interest exists in developing ... -
Characterization of transmission lines at IR
Mandviwala, Tasneem A.; López-Alonso, José Manuel; Lail, Brian A.; Boreman, Glenn D. (2006-05-12)We demonstrate the first long wave infrared (LWIR) transmission line design and characterization. Two of the widely used transmission-lines: coplanar striplines (CPS) and microstrip (MS) lines are characterized at IR ... -
Circular polarized leaky wave surface
Manene, Franklin M.; Lail, Brian A.; Kinzel, Edward C. (2014-08-18)A circular polarized (CP) infrared (IR) leaky wave surface design is presented. The metasurface consists of an array of rectangular patches connected by microstrip and operating over the long-wave infrared (LWIR) spectrum ... -
Collection efficiency for millimeter and submillimeter wave antenna-coupled detection
Xu, Yuancheng; Lail, Brian A. (2015-04-20)The goal in the design of an efficient and low-noise antenna coupled receiver is to achieve a maximal capture cross section for the incident electromagnetic radiation compared to the dimensions of the sub-wavelength sized ... -
Determination of electric-field, magnetic-field, and electric-current distributions of infrared optical antennas: A near-field optical vector network analyzer
Olmon, Robert L.; Rang, Matthias; Krenz, Peter M.; Lail, Brian A.; Saraf, Laxmikant V.; Boreman, Glenn D.; Raschke, Markus B. (2010-10-15)In addition to the electric field E(r), the associated magnetic field H(r) and current density J(r) characterize any electromagnetic device, providing insight into antenna coupling and mutual impedance. We demonstrate the ... -
Directional thermal emission from a leaky-wave frequency-selective surface
Kinzel, Edward C.; Ginn, James C.; Tucker, Eric Z.; D'Archangel, Jeffrey A.; Florence, Louis A.; Lail, Brian A.; Boreman, Glenn D. (2013-09-11)We design, fabricate, and characterize a frequency-selective surface (FSS) with directional thermal emission and absorption for long-wave infrared wavelengths. The FSS consists of an array of patch antennas connected by ... -
First THz and IR characterization of nanometer-scaled antenna-coupled InGaAs/InP Schottky-diode detectors for room temperature infrared imaging
Kazemi, Hooman; Shinohara, Keisuke; Nagy, Gabor; Ha, Wonill; Lail, Brian A.; Grossman, E. N.; Zummo, Guy; Folks, William R.; Alda, Javier; Boreman, Glenn D. (2007-05-14)Nanometer high performance InP Schottky detectors are scaled to IR wavelengths. The increased cutoff frequency of the Schottky detector was accomplished by both reducing its capacitance to attofarad range and also by ... -
Frequency-selective surface coupled metal-oxide-metal diodes
Kinzel, Edward C.; Brown, Robert Laurent; Ginn, James Chris; Lail, Brian A.; Slovick, Brian A.; Boreman, Glenn D. (2013-06-11)Metal-Oxide-Metal diodes offer the possibility of directly rectifying infrared radiation. To be effective for sensing or energy harvesting they must be coupled to an antenna which produces intense fields at the diode. While ... -
Graphene Surface Plasmon Applications in Designing Novel Nano-Heterostructure Arrays
Mirniaharikandi, Seyededriss (2020-08)Graphene is the flat monolayer of carbon atoms constructing a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice with an exotic mechanic, electronic, magnetic, and optical properties. Interestingly, the graphene has been experimentally ... -
Hybrid long-range mid-infrared hyperbolic phonon polariton waveguide using hexagonal boron nitride
Xiong, Di (2019-05)For any photonic-on-chip applications long propagation waveguides are critical. The use of plasmon polaritons for near-infrared and optical networks has been extensively studied for the purpose of achieving long propagation ... -
HYBRID PHONON POLARITONS MIMIC TE SURFACE WAVE ENHANCED SUPERCOUPLING
Rebello, Delroy Dominic (2017-05)The study and excitation of surface plasmon polaritons SPhPs modes in polar dielectrics have attracted the interest of a wide range of research in various fields such as biology, physics and engineering. The excitation ... -
A hybrid phononic waveguide using multilayer structure at mid-infrared
Al-Amri, Asma; Finch, Michael F.; Barreto Saunders Filho, Claudio Augusto; Lail, Brian A. (2017)Surface phonon polaritons, SPhPs, result from the coupling or interaction of light with a phonon resonance. There has been extensive research into utilizing surface plasmon polaritons, SPPs, for subwavelength confinement ... -
Impedance-matching analysis in IR leaky-wave antennas
Premkumar, Navaneeth; Xu, Yuancheng; Lail, Brian A. (2015-08-09)Planar leaky-wave antennas (LWA) that are capable of full-space scanning have long since been the pursuit for applications including, but not limited to, integration onto vehicles and into cameras for wide-angle of view ... -
Infrared Detection and Waveguiding Using Metasurfaces
Premkumar, Navaneeth (2020-05)The goal of this work is to be able to detect thermal radiation in the long-wave and mid-infrared spectrum to a reasonable efficiency. In order to aid this effort, antenna arrays with large collection apertures are coupled ... -
Infrared Resonant-Coupled Metamaterial Sensing and Phonon-Polariton-Enhanced Infrared Interconnects
Finch, Michael Francis (2018-05)Coupled-mode theory has been applied to various fields of endeavor from waveguide splitters/combiners and molecular sensing to light-matter interactions. Metamaterials, engineered periodic or aperiodic structures, are ... -
Infrared surface phonon polariton waveguides on SiC Substrate
Yang, Yuchen; Manene, Franklin M.; Lail, Brian A. (2015-08-09)Surface plasmon polariton (SPP) waveguides harbor many potential applications at visible and near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths. However, dispersive properties of the metal in the waveguide yields weakly coupled and lossy ... -
Mode splitting and resonant coupling between a slot metasurface and PMMA
Finch, Michael F.; Lail, Brian A. (2014-08-18)A slot metasurface (metascreen) designed to have resonance that couples with the 1733 cmˉ¹ absorption peak of the C=O molecular bond of PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate) is presented. The metasurface is made of a gold layer ... -
Multi-coupled resonant splitting with a nano-slot metasurface and PMMA phonons
Finch, Michael F.; Lail, Brian A. (2015-08-09)Coupled-resonances can be used in applications that include, but are not limited to, surface-enhanced infrared spectroscopy (SEIRS), surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), biosensing, and index sensing. Fano resonance ... -
Numerical modeling of scattering type scanning near-field optical microscopy
Ravichandran, Arvindvivek T.; Kinzel, Edward C.; Ginn, James C.; D'Archangel, Jeffrey A.; Tucker, Eric Z.; Lail, Brian A.; Raschke, Markus B.; Boreman, Glenn D. (2013-09-20)Apertureless scattering-type Scanning Near-field Optical Microscopy (s-SNOM) has been used to study the electromagnetic response of infrared antennas below the diffraction limit. The ability to simultaneously resolve the ... -
Optical directional coupler and Mach-Zehnder interferometer enhanced via 4H-SiC phonons
Finch, Michael F.; Saunders Filho, Claudio A B; Lail, Brian A. (2016-08-28)Surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs), similar to it cousin phenomenon surface plasmon polaitons (SPPs), are quasi-neutral particles resulting from light-matter coupling that can provide high modal confinement and long propagation ...