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).
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Sean Molesky (45)
- 2025 (1)
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- 2024 (4)
Journal article 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.Journal article 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).Journal article 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), -.Journal article 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 (3)
Journal article 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.Conference paper 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.Journal article 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 (5)
Journal article 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).Journal article Chao, P., Defo, R. K., Molesky, S., & Rodriguez, A. (2022). Maximum electromagnetic local density of states via material structuring. Nanophotonics, 12(3), 549-557.Journal article Chao, P., Strekha, B., Kuate Defo, R., Molesky, S., & Rodríguez, A. W. (2022). Physical limits in electromagnetism. Nature Reviews Physics, 4(8), 543-559.Journal article 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.Journal article 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 (8)
Journal article 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).Journal article 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).Journal article 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).Journal article 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).Journal article 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).Journal article 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).Journal article 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.Conference paper 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 (4)
Journal article Molesky, S., & Jacob, Z. (2019). Definition of polaritonic fluctuations in natural hyperbolic media. Physical Review A, 99(3), 033833 (13 pages).Conference paper 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..Journal article 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).Journal article 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 (3)
Journal article 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.Journal article 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.Journal article 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 (2)
Journal article 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).Journal article 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 (2)
Journal article 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).Conference paper 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 (2)
Journal article Molesky, S., & Jacob, Z. (2015). Ideal near-field thermophotovoltaic cells. Physical Review B, 91(20), 205435 (7 pages).Conference paper 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 (4)
Journal article 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).Conference paper 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.Journal article 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).Conference paper 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 (4)
Journal article 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.Conference paper 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.Journal article 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.Conference paper 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 (3)
Journal article 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).Conference paper Molesky, S., & Jacob, Z. (2012, May). Metamaterial thermal antenna using the wolf effect [Paper]. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA.Journal article Cortes, C. L., Newman, W., Molesky, S., & Jacob, Z. (2012). Quantum nanophotonics using hyperbolic metamaterials. Journal of Optics, 14(6), 063001 (15 pages).
