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Journal articles (35)
- 2025
  - Giroux, M., Molesky, S., St-Gelais, R., & Krich, J. J. (2025). Radiator tailoring for enhanced performance in InAs-based Near-field thermophotovoltaics. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 292, 113804 (8 pages).
- 2024
  - Amaolo, A., Chao, P., Maldonado, T. J., Molesky, S., & Rodríguez, A. W. (2024). Can photonic heterostructures provably outperform single-material geometries? Nanophotonics, 13(3), 283-288.
  - Strekha, B., Amaolo, A., Mohajan, J., Chao, P., Molesky, S., & Rodríguez, A. W. (2024). Limitations on bandwidth-integrated passive cloaking. Physical review. A/Physical review, A, 110(6).
  - Amaolo, A., Chao, P., Maldonado, T. J., Molesky, S., & Rodríguez, A. W. (2024). Physical limits on Raman scattering: The critical role of pump and signal co-design. Physical review. A/Physical review, A, 110(6), -.
  - Strekha, B., Chao, P., Defo, R. K., Molesky, S., & Rodríguez, A. W. (2024). Suppressing electromagnetic local density of states via slow light in lossy quasi-one-dimensional gratings. Physical Review A, 109(4), 041501 (6 pages).
- 2023
  - Mohajan, J., Chao, P., Jin, W., Molesky, S., & Rodríguez, A. W. (2023). Fundamental limits on radiative χ<sup>(2)</sup> second harmonic generation. Optics Express, 31(26), 44212-44223.
  - Giroux, M., Stéphan, M., Brazeau, M., Molesky, S., Rodríguez, A. W., Krich, J. J., Hinzer, K., & St-Gelais, R. (2023). Measurement of Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer at Deep Sub-Wavelength Distances using Nanomechanical Resonators. Nano Letters, 8 pages.
- 2022
  - Forcade, G. P., Valdivia, C. E., Molesky, S., Lu, S., Rodríguez, A. W., Krich, J. J., St-Gelais, R., & Hinzer, K. (2022). Efficiency-optimized near-field thermophotovoltaics using InAs and InAsSbP. Applied Physics Letters, 121(19), 193903 (8 pages).
  - Chao, P., Defo, R. K., Molesky, S., & Rodriguez, A. (2022). Maximum electromagnetic local density of states via material structuring. Nanophotonics, 12(3), 549-557.
  - Chao, P., Strekha, B., Kuate Defo, R., Molesky, S., & Rodríguez, A. W. (2022). Physical limits in electromagnetism. Nature Reviews Physics, 4(8), 543-559.
  - Molesky, S., Chao, P., Mohajan, J., Reinhart, W., Chi, H., & Rodríguez, A. W. (2022). T-operator limits on optical communication: Metaoptics, computation, and input-output transformations. Physical Review Research, 4(1), 15 pages.
  - Strekha, B., Molesky, S., Chao, P., Krueger, M., & Rodríguez, A. W. (2022). Trace expressions and associated limits for nonequilibrium Casimir torque. Physical Review A, 106(4), 042222 (19 pages).
- 2020
  - Venkataram, P. S., Molesky, S., Cuevas, J. C., & Rodríguez, A. W. (2020). Channel-based algebraic limits to conductive heat transfer. Physical Review B, 102(8), 085405 (10 pages).
  - Venkataram, P. S., Molesky, S., Chao, P., & Rodríguez, A. W. (2020). Fundamental limits to attractive and repulsive Casimir-Polder forces. Physical Review A, 101(5), 052115 (10 pages).
  - Venkataram, P. S., Molesky, S., Jin, W., & Rodríguez, A. W. (2020). Fundamental limits to radiative heat transfer: The limited role of nanostructuring in the near-field. Physical Review Letters, 124(1), 013904 (6 pages).
  - Molesky, S., Venkataram, P. S., Jin, W., & Rodríguez, A. W. (2020). Fundamental limits to radiative heat transfer: Theory. Physical Review B, 101(3), 035408 (12 pages).
  - Molesky, S., Chao, P., Jin, W., & Rodríguez, A. W. (2020). Global T operator bounds on electromagnetic scattering: Upper bounds on far-field cross sections. Physical Review Research, 2(3), 033172 (24 pages).
  - Molesky, S., Chao, P., & Rodríguez, A. W. (2020). Hierarchical mean-field T operator bounds on electromagnetic scattering: Upper bounds on near-field radiative Purcell enhancement. Physical Review Research, 2(4), 043398 (12 pages).
  - Chakravarthi, S., Chao, P., Pederson, C., Molesky, S., Ivanov, A., Hestroffer, K., Hatami, F., Rodríguez, A. W., & Fu, K.-M. C. (2020). Inverse-designed photon extractors for optically addressable defect qubits. Optica, 7(12), 1805-1811.
- 2019
  - Molesky, S., & Jacob, Z. (2019). Definition of polaritonic fluctuations in natural hyperbolic media. Physical Review A, 99(3), 033833 (13 pages).
  - Jin, W., Molesky, S., Lin, Z., & Rodriguez, A. W. (2019). Material scaling and frequency-selective enhancement of near-field radiative heat transfer for lossy metals in two dimensions via inverse design. Physical Review B, 99(4), 041403 (6 pages).
  - Molesky, S., Jin, W., Venkataram, P. S., & Rodriguez, A. W. (2019). T operator bounds on angle-integrated absorption and thermal radiation for arbitrary objects. Physical Review Letters, 123(25), 257401 (6 pages).
- 2018
  - Starko-Bowes, R., Dai, J., Newman, W., Molesky, S., Qi, L., Satija, A., Tsui, Y., Gupta, M., Fedosejevs, R., Pramanik, S., Xuan, Y., & Jacob, Z. (2018). Dual-band quasi-coherent radiative thermal source. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 216, 99-104.
  - Molesky, S., Lin, Z., Piggott, A. Y., Jin, W., Vuckovic, J., & Rodriguez, A. W. (2018). Inverse design in nanophotonics. Nature Photonics, 12(11), 659-670.
  - Jin, W., Molesky, S., Lin, Z., Fu, K.-M. C., & Rodriguez, A. W. (2018). Inverse design of compact multimode cavity couplers. Optics Express, 26(20), 26713-26721.
- 2017
  - Lang, S., Sharma, G., Molesky, S., Kränzien, P. U., Jalas, T., Jacob, Z., Petrov, A. Y., & Eich, M. (2017). Dynamic measurement of near-field radiative heat transfer. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 13916 (8 pages).
  - Pendharker, S., Hu, H., Molesky, S., Starko-Bowes, R., Poursoti, Z., Pramanik, S., Nazemifard, N., Fedosejevs, R., Thundat, T., & Jacob, Z. (2017). Thermal graphene metamaterials and epsilon-near-zero high temperature plasmonics. Journal of Optics, 19(5), 055101 (10 pages).
- 2016
  - Dyachenko, P. N., Molesky, S., Yu Petrov, A., Störmer, M., Krekeler, T., Lang, S., Ritter, M., Jacob, Z., & Eich, M. (2016). Controlling thermal emission with refractory epsilon-near-zero metamaterials via topological transitions. Nature Communications, 7(1), 11809 (8 pages).
- 2015
  - Molesky, S., & Jacob, Z. (2015). Ideal near-field thermophotovoltaic cells. Physical Review B, 91(20), 205435 (7 pages).
- 2014
  - Cortes, C. L., Newman, W., Molesky, S., & Jacob, Z. (2014). Correction: Quantum nanophotonics using hyperbolic metamaterials (vol 14, 063001, 2012). Journal of Optics, 16(12), 129501 (1 page).
  - Guo, Y., Molesky, S., Hu, H., Cortes, C. L., & Jacob, Z. (2014). Thermal excitation of plasmons for near-field thermophotovoltaics. Applied Physics Letters, 105(7), 073903 (5 pages).
- 2013
  - Cocker, T. L., Jelic, V., Gupta, M., Molesky, S., Burgess, J. A. J., De Los Reyes, G., Titova, L. V., Tsui, Y. Y., Freeman, M. R., & Hegmann, F. A. (2013). An ultrafast terahertz scanning tunnelling microscope. Nature Photonics, 7(8), 620-625.
  - Molesky, S., Dewalt, C. J., & Jacob, Z. (2013). High temperature epsilon-near-zero and epsilon-near-pole metamaterial emitters for thermophotovoltaics. Optics Express, 21(1), A96-A110.
- 2012
  - Guo, Y., Cortes, C. L., Molesky, S., & Jacob, Z. (2012). Broadband super-Planckian thermal emission from hyperbolic metamaterials. Applied Physics Letters, 101(13), 131106 (5 pages).
  - Cortes, C. L., Newman, W., Molesky, S., & Jacob, Z. (2012). Quantum nanophotonics using hyperbolic metamaterials. Journal of Optics, 14(6), 063001 (15 pages).
Conference papers (10)
- 2023
  - Chao, P., Defo, R. K., Molesky, S., & Rodriguez, A. (2023, May). Fundamental Limits to Enhancing the Local Density of States Through Nanostructuring [Paper]. Fundamental Science 2023 (CLEO 2023), San Jose, CA, USA.
- 2020
  - Molesky, S., Venkataram, P. S., Jin, W., Chao, P., & Rodríguez, A. W. (2020, May). T-operator bounds on absorption, scattering and thermal emission for arbitrary objects [Paper]. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Washington, D.C..
- 2019
  - Starko-Bowes, R., Wang, X., Dai, J., Newman, W., Molesky, S., Qi, L., Satija, A., Tsui, Y., Gupta, M., Fedosejevs, R., Pramanik, S., Xuan, Y., & Jacob, Z. (2019, May). Dual-band quasi-coherent radiative thermal source [Paper]. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, Calif..
- 2016
  - Dyachenko, P. N., Molesky, S., Petrov, A. Y., Stoermer, M., Krekeler, T., Lang, S., Ritter, M., Jacob, Z., & Eich, M. (2016, April). Radiative engineering with refractory epsilon-near-zero metamaterials [Paper]. Conference on Metamaterials X, Brussels, Belgium.
- 2015
  - Jelic, V., Cocker, T. L., Nguyen, P. H., Rathje, C., Hornig, G. J., Hoffman, J. R., Sharum, H. M., Miller, R., Molesky, S., Gupta, M., Burgess, J. A. J., De los Reyes, G. B., Titova, L. V., Ropers, C., Tsui, Y. Y., Freeman, M. R., & Hegmann, F. A. (2015, August). Imaging ultrafast dynamics on the nanoscale with THz-STM [Paper]. 40th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), Hong Kong, China.
- 2014
  - Cocker, T. L., Jelic, V., Hoffman, J. R., Gupta, M., Miller, R., Molesky, S., Burgess, J. A. J., De Los Reyes, G., Titova, L. V., Tsui, Y. Y., Freeman, M. R., & Hegmann, F. A. (2014, February). Imaging ultrafast dynamics on the nanoscale with a THz-STM [Paper]. Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XVIII, San Francisco, CA.
  - Jelic, V., Cocker, T. L., Hoffman, J. R., Gupta, M., Miller, R., Molesky, S., Burgess, J. A. J., De Los Reyes, G. B., Titova, L. V., Tsui, Y. Y., Freeman, M. R., & Hegmann, F. A. (2014, February). Ultrafast THz-pulse-induced tunneling dynamics in an STM [Paper]. Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XVIII, San Francisco, CA.
- 2013
  - Molesky, S., & Jacob, Z. (2013, June). High temperature epsilon-near-zero and epsilon-near-pole metamaterial emitters for thermophotovoltaics [Paper]. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA.
  - Cocker, T. L., Jelic, V., Gupta, M., Molesky, S., Burgess, J. A. J., De Los Reyes, G., Titova, L. V., Tsui, Y. Y., Freeman, M. R., & Hegmann, F. A. (2013, May). Imaging ultrafast nanoscale dynamics with a THz-pulse-coupled STM [Paper]. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & International Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-IQEC), Munich, Germany.
- 2012
  - Molesky, S., & Jacob, Z. (2012, May). Metamaterial thermal antenna using the wolf effect [Paper]. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA.

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