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2026

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Opposite and reversible optical switching in soft-lattice halide perovskites using light and heat

Dubey, Mansha, Tristan J. Deppe, Andrii Kanak, Abigail R. Hering, Peifen Lyu, Declan Kopper, Paulina V. Escobar, Maksym V. Kovalenko, Jeremy N. Munday, and Marina S. Leite

Science Advances 12, eaeb1442 (2026) PDF

From Materials to Machine Learning: A Photonics-Based Design of Thermophotovoltaic Emitters

Declan Kopper, Paulina V. Escobar, Raymond Iacobacci, Jeremy N. Munday, and Marina S. Leite

ACS Photonics 13, 2302 (2026) PDF

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A simple mechanical cleaning method for colloidal probes

Calum Shelden and Jeremy N. Munday

Measurement Science and Technology 37, 135002 (2026) PDF

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Reinforcement Learning Approach to High-Efficiency Thermophotovoltaic Filter Design

Paulina V. Escobar, Hang Wang, Junshan Zhang, Jeremy N. Munday

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces‍ ‍18, 3705 (2026) PDF

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2025

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Mechanical power generation using Earth’s ambient radiation

Tristan Deppe and Jeremy N. Munday

Sci. Adv. 11, eadw6833 (2025) PDF

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Thermal Effects in the Casimir Torque between Birefringent Plates

Benjamin Spreng and Jeremy N. Munday

Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 013602 (2025) PDF

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Transition-Metal Nitrides for High-Temperature Structural Colors

Peifen Lyu, Tzu-Yu Peng, Declan Kopper, Calum Shelden, Jeremy N. Munday, Yu-Jung Lu, and Marina S. Leite

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 17, 35673 (2025) PDF

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Casimir Force Control Enabled by 3D Nanostructures

Calum Shelden, Benjamin Spreng, Joseph L. Garrett, Tahmid S. Rahman, Jongbum Kim, and Jeremy N. Munday

Nano Lett. 25, 9254 (2025) PDF

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2024

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Opportunities and challenges involving repulsive Casimir forces in nanotechnology

Calum Shelden, Benjamin Spreng, and Jeremy N. Munday

Appl. Phys. Rev. 11, 041325 (2024) PDF

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Thermoradiative Photovoltaics

Tristan Deppe and Jeremy N. Munday

Optics and Photonics News 35, 1047 (2024) PDF

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Casimir repulsion with biased semiconductors

Benjamin Spreng, Calum Shelden, Tao Gong, and Jeremy N. Munday

Optica Quantum 2, 266 (2024) PDF

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2023

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Photonics roadmap for ultra-high-temperature thermophotovoltaics

Mariama Rebello Sousa Dias, Tao Gong, Margaret A. Duncan, Stuart C. Ness, Scott J. McCormack, Marina S. Leite, and Jeremy N. Munday

Joule 7, 2209 (2023) PDF

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Enhanced repulsive Casimir forces between gold and thin magnetodielectric plates

Calum Shelden, Benjamin Spreng, and Jeremy N. Munday

Phys. Rev. A 108, 032817 (2023) PDF

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Broadband Superabsorber Operating at 1500 °C Using Dielectric Bilayers

Tao Gong, Margaret A. Duncan, Micah Karahadian, Marina S. Leite, and Jeremy N. Munday

ACS Appl. Opt. Mater.1, 1615-1619 (2023) PDF

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Effect of Epsilon-Near-Zero Modes on the Casimir Interaction between Ultrathin Films

Tao Gong, Iñigo Liberal, Benjamin Spreng, Miguel Camacho, Nader Engheta, and Jeremy N. Munday

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 196901 (2023) PDF

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Optical Tunability and Characterization of Mg–Al, Mg–Ti, and Mg–Ni Alloy Hydrides for Dynamic Color Switching Devices

Kevin J. Palm, Micah E. Karahadian, Marina S. Leite, and Jeremy N. Munday

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15, 1010-1020 (2023) PDF

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2022

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Near-perfect (>99%) dual-band absorption in the visible using ultrathin semiconducting gratings

Tao Gong and Jeremy N. Munday

Opt. Express 30, 36500-36508 (2022) PDF

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Radiative energy band gap of nanostructures coupled with quantum emitters around the epsilon-near-zero frequency

Tao Gong, Iñigo Liberal, Miguel Camacho, Benjamin Spreng, Nader Engheta, and Jeremy N. Munday

Physical Review B 106, 085422 (2022) PDF

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Electrically switchable Casimir forces using transparent conductive oxides

Tao Gong, Benjamin Spreng, Miguel Camacho, Iñigo Liberal, Nader Engheta, and Jeremy N. Munday

Phys. Rev. A 106, 062824 (2022) PDF

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Recent developments on the Casimir torque

Benjamin Spreng, Tao Gong and Jeremy N. Munday

International Journal of Modern Physics A 37, 2241011 (2022) PDF

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Achieving Scalable Near-Zero-Index Materials

Kevin J. Palm, Tao Gong, Calum Shelden, Ece Deniz, Lisa J. Krayer, Marina S. Leite, and Jeremy N. Munday

Advanced Photonics Research 3, 2200109 (2022) PDF

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Engineering Casimir interactions with epsilon-near-zero materials

Miguel Camacho, Tao Gong, Benjamin Spreng, Iñigo Liberal, Nader Engheta, and Jeremy N. Munday

Physical Review A 105, L061501 (2022) PDF

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Highly switchable absorption in a metal hydride device using a near-zero-index substrate

Kevin J. Palm, Lisa J. Krayer, and Jeremy N. Munday

Optics Express 30, 21977-21989 (2022) PDF

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2021

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Water-Induced and Wavelength-Dependent Light Absorption and Emission Dynamics in Triple-Cation Halide Perovskites

John M. Howard, Kevin J. Palm, Qiong Wang, Erica Lee, Antonio Abate, Jeremy N. Munday, and Marina S. Leite

Advanced Optical Materials 9, 2100710 (2021) PDF

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Photonic materials for interstellar solar sailing

Artur R. Davoyan, Jeremy N. Munday, Nelson Tabiryan, Grover A. Swartzlander Jr., and Les Johnson

Optica 8, 722-734 (2021) PDF

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Recent progress in engineering the Casimir effect – applications to nanophotonics, nanomechanics, and chemistry

Tao Gong, Matthew R. Corrado, Ahmed R. Mahbub, Calum Shelden and Jeremy N. Munday

Nanophotonics 10, 523-536 (2021) PDF

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2020

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Control of hot-carrier relaxation time in Au-Ag thin films through alloying

Sarvenaz Memarzadeh, Kevin J. Palm, Thomas E. Murphy, Marina S. Leite, and Jeremy N. Munday

Optics Express 28, 33528-33537 (2020) PDF

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Emergent Opportunities with Metallic Alloys: From Material Design to Optical Devices

Tao Gong, Peifen Lyu, Kevin J. Palm, Sarvenaz Memarzadeh, Jeremy N. Munday, and Marina S. Leite

Advanced Optical Materials 8, 2070091 (2020) PDF

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Correlated Electrical and Chemical Nanoscale Properties in Potassium‐Passivated, Triple‐Cation Perovskite Solar Cells

Elizabeth M Tennyson, Mojtaba Abdi‐Jalebi, Kangyu Ji, Joseph L Garrett, Chen Gong, Alison A Pawlicki, Olga S Ovchinnikova, Jeremy N Munday, Samuel D Stranks, Marina S Leite

Advanced Materials Interfaces 7 , 2000515 (2020) PDF

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Measuring the effect of electrostatic patch potentials in Casimir force experiments

Joseph L. Garrett, Jongbum Kim, and Jeremy N. Munday
Physical Review Research 2, 023355 (2020) PDF

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Enhanced near-Infrared Photoresponse from Nanoscale Ag-Au Alloyed Films

Lisa J Krayer, Kevin J Palm, Chen Gong, Alberto Torres, Cesar EP Villegas, Alexandre R Rocha, Marina S Leite, Jeremy N Munday

ACS Photonics 7, 1689-1698 (2020) PDF

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Surface plasmon assisted control of hot-electron relaxation time

Sarvenaz Memarzadeh, Jongbum Kim, Yigit Aytac, Thomas E. Murphy and Jeremy N. Munday

Optica 7, 608-612 (2020) PDF

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Nighttime photovoltaic cells: electrical power generation by optically coupling with deep space

Tristan Deppe and Jeremy N Munday

ACS Photonics, 1, 1-9 (2020) PDF

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2019

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A new twist on the quantum vacuum

Jeremy N. Munday

Physics Today 72, 74-75 (2019) PDF

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The Effects of Incident Photon Energy on the Time-Dependent Voltage Response of Lead Halide Perovskites

Elizabeth M Tennyson, John M Howard, Bart Roose, Joseph L Garrett, Jeremy N Munday, Antonio Abate, Marina S Leite

Chemistry of Materials 31, 8969-8976 (2019) PDF

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In Situ Optical and Stress Characterization of Alloyed PdxAu1–x Hydrides

Kevin J. Palm, Joseph B. Murray, Joshua P. McClure, Marina S. Leite, and Jeremy N. Munday

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11, 45057-45067 (2019) PDF

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Interfacial Defect-Mediated Near-Infrared Silicon Photodetection with Metal Oxides

Jongbum Kim, Lisa J. Krayer, Joseph L. Garrett and Jeremy N. Munday

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11, 47516-47524 (2019) PDF

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Optoelectronic devices on index-near-zero substrates

Lisa J Krayer, Jongbum Kim, Joseph L Garrett, Jeremy N Munday

ACS Photonics, 6, 2238-2244 (2019) PDF

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Tackling Climate Change through Radiative Cooling

Jeremy N. Munday

Joule, 3, 2057-2060 (2019) PDF

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Sensitivity and accuracy of Casimir force measurements in air

J. L. Garrett, D. A. T. Somers, K. Sendgikoski, J. N. Munday

Physical Review A, 100, 022508 (2019) PDF

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Revisiting the cold case of cold fusion

Curtis P. Berlinguette, Yet-Ming Chiang, Jeremy N. Munday, Thomas Schenkel, David K. Fork, Ross Koningstein & Matthew D. Trevithick,

Nature 570, 45–51 (2019) PDF

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Alignment-dependent decay rate of an atomic dipole near an optical nanofiber

P. Solano, J. A. Grover, Y. Xu, P. Barberis-Blostein, J. N. Munday, L. A. Orozco, W. D. Phillips, and S. L. Rolston

Phys. Rev. A, 99, 013822 (2019) PDF

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Cesium-Incorporated Triple Cation Perovskites Deliver Fully Reversible and Stable Nanoscale Voltage Response

Elizabeth M. Tennyson, Bart Roose, Joseph L. Garrett, Chen Gong, Jeremy N. Munday, Antonio Abate, and Marina S. Leite,

ACS Nano, 13, 1538–1546 (2019) PDF

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Near-perfect absorption throughout the visible using ultra-thin metal films on index-near-zero substrates [Invited]

Lisa J. Krayer, Jongbum Kim, and Jeremy N. Munday

Optical Materials Express, 9, 330-338 (2019) PDF

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2018

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Near-IR Imaging Based on Hot Carrier Generation in Nanometer-Scale Optical Coatings

Lisa J. Krayer, Elizabeth M. Tennyson, Marina S. Leite, and Jeremy N. Munday

ACS Photonics, 5, 306–311 (2018) PDF

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Multiscale Functional Imaging of Interfaces through Atomic Force Microscopy Using Harmonic Mixing

Joseph L. Garrett, Marina S. Leite, and Jeremy N. Munday

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 10, 28850–28859 (2018) PDF

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Measurement of wavelength-dependent radiation pressure from photon reflection and absorption due to thin film interference

Dakang Ma and Jeremy N. Munday

Scientific Reports, 8, 15930 (2018) PDF

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Measurement of the Casimir force between two spheres

Joseph L. Garrett, David A. T. Somers and Jeremy N. Munday

Phys. Rev. Lett., 120, 040401 (2018) PDF

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Dynamic Optical Properties of Metal Hydrides

Kevin J. Palm, Joseph B. Murray, Tarun C. Narayan, and Jeremy N. Munday

ACS Photonics, 5, 4677–4686 (2018) PDF

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Apparatus for combined nanoscale gravimetric, stress, and thermal measurements

Joseph B. Murray, Kevin J. Palm, Tarun C. Narayan, David K. Fork, Seid Sadat, and Jeremy N. Munday

Rev. Sci. Instr., 89, 085106 (2018) PDF

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Active Control of Photon Recycling for Tunable Optoelectronic Materials

Yunlu Xu, Elizabeth M. Tennyson, Jehyung Kim, Sabyasachi Barik, Joseph Murray, Edo Waks, Marina S. Leite, Jeremy N. Munday

Adv. Optical Mater., 6, 1701323 (2018) PDF

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Measurement of the Casimir torque

David A. T. Somers, Joseph L. Garrett, Kevin J. Palm & Jeremy N. Munday

Nature, 564, 386–389 (2018) PDF

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2017

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Real-Time Nanoscale Open-Circuit Voltage Dynamics of Perovskite Solar Cells

Joseph L. Garrett, Elizabeth M. Tennyson, Miao Hu, Jinsong Huang, Jeremy N. Munday, and Marina S. Leite

Nano Lett., 17, 2554–2560 (2017) PDF

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Electrically Controllable Light Trapping for Self-Powered Switchable Solar Windows

Joseph Murray, Dakang Ma, and Jeremy N. Munday

ACS Photonics, 4, 1–7, (2017) PDF

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Effect of lateral tip motion on multifrequency atomic force microscopy

Joseph L. Garrett, Lisa J. Krayer, Kevin J. Palm, and Jeremy N. Munday

Appl. Phys. Lett., 111, 043105 (2017) PDF

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Controllable Propulsion by Light: Steering a Solar Sail via Tunable Radiation Pressure

Dakang Ma, Joseph Murray and Jeremy N. Munday

Adv. Opt. Mat., 5, 1600668 (2017) PDF

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Conditions for repulsive Casimir forces between identical birefringent materials

David A. T. Somers and Jeremy N. Munday

Phys. Rev. A, 95, 022509 (2017) PDF

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Casimir-Lifshitz Torque Enhancement by Retardation and Intervening Dielectrics

David A. T. Somers and Jeremy N. Munday

Phys. Rev. Lett., 119, 183001 (2017) PDF

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Aluminum-based hot carrier plasmonics

Tao Gong and Jeremy N. Munday

Appl. Phys. Lett., 110, 021117 (2017) PDF

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2016

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Nanophotonic resonators for InP solar cells

Daniel A. Goldman, Joseph Murray, and Jeremy N. Munday

Opt. Express, 24, A925-A934 (2016) PDF

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Mid-infrared time-resolved photoconduction in black phosphorus

Ryan J Suess, Edward Leong, Joseph L Garrett, Tong Zhou, Reza Salem, Jeremy N Munday, Thomas E Murphy, and Martin Mittendorff

2D Materials, 3, 041006 (2016) PDF

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Fast, high-resolution surface potential measurements in air with heterodyne Kelvin probe force microscopy

Joseph L Garrett and Jeremy N Munday

Nanotechnology, 27, 245705 (2016) PDF

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Experimental demonstration and modeling of the internal light scattering profile within solar cells due to random dielectric scatterers

Joseph Murray and Jeremy N. Munday

J. Appl. Phys., 119, 023104 (2016) PDF

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Design concepts for hot carrier-based detectors and energy converters in the near ultraviolet and infrared

Tao Gong, Lisa Krayer, and Jeremy N Munday

Journal of Photonics for Energy, 6, 042510-042510 (2016) PDF

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Demonstration of Resonance Coupling in Scalable Dielectric Microresonator Coatings for Photovoltaics

Dongheon Ha, Chen Gong, Marina S Leite, and Jeremy N Munday

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 8, 24536-24542 (2016) PDF

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A highly sensitive, highly transparent, gel-gated MoS2 phototransistor on biodegradable nanopaper

Qing Zhang, Wenzhong Bao, Amy Gong, Tao Gong, Dakang Ma, Jiayu Wan, Jiaqi Dai, Jeremy N. Munday, Jr-Hau He, Liangbing Hu and Daihua Zhang

Nanoscale, 8, 14237-14242 (2016) PDF

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A generalized approach to modeling absorption and photocurrent in solar cells with light scattering structures

Joseph Murray and Jeremy N. Munday

J. Appl. Phys., 120, 165304 (2016) PDF

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2015

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The generalized Shockley-Queisser limit for nanostructured solar cells

Yunlu Xu, Tao Gong & Jeremy N. Munday

Scientific Reports 5, Article number: 13536 (2015) PDF

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The effect of patch potentials in Casimir force measurements determined by heterodyne Kelvin probe force microscopy

Joseph L Garrett, David Somers, Jeremy N Munday

J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 27, 214012 (2015) PDF

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Surface/Interface Effects on High-Performance Thin-Film All-Solid-State Li-Ion Batteries

Chen Gong, Dmitry Ruzmetov, Alexander Pearse, Dakang Ma, Jeremy N. Munday, Gary Rubloff, A. Alec Talin, and Marina S. Leite

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 7, 26007-26011 (2015) PDF

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Rotation of a liquid crystal by the Casimir torque

David A. T. Somers and Jeremy N. Munday

Phys. Rev. A, 91, 032520 (2015) PDF

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Quantitative measurement of radiation pressure on a microcantilever in ambient environment

Dakang Ma, Joseph L. Garrett and Jeremy N. Munday

Appl. Phys. Lett., 106, 091107 (2015) PDF

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Nanoimaging of Open-Circuit Voltage in Photovoltaic Devices

Elizabeth M. Tennyson, Joseph L. Garrett, Jesse A. Frantz, Jason D. Myers, Robel Y. Bekele, Jasbinder S. Sanghera, Jeremy N. Munday, and Marina S. Leite

Adv. Energy Mater., 5, 1501142 (2015) PDF

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Materials for hot carrier plasmonics [Invited]

Tao Gong and Jeremy N. Munday

Optical Materials Express, 5, 2501-2512 (2015) PDF

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Improving photovoltaic performance through radiative cooling in both terrestrial and extraterrestrial environments

Taqiyyah S. Safi and Jeremy N. Munday

Opt. Express 23 (19), A1120-A1128 (2015) PDF

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Angle-Independent Hot Carrier Generation and Collection Using Transparent Conducting Oxides

Tao Gong and Jeremy N. Munday

Nano Lett., 15, 147–152 (2015) PDF

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Advanced Broadband Antireflection Coatings Based on Cellulose Microfiber Paper

Dongheon Ha, Joseph Murray, Zhiqiang Fang, Liangbing Hu, and Jeremy N. Munday

IEEE J. of PV, 5, 577-583 (2015) PDF

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2014

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Silver nanowire transparent conducting paper-based electrode with high optical haze

Colin Preston, Zhiqiang Fang, Joseph Murray, Hongli Zhu, Jiaqi Dai, Jeremy N. Munday and Liangbing Hu

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2, 1248-1254 (2014) PDF

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Photonic structured solar cells to enhance current and voltage

Jeremy Munday

SPIE Newsroom. DOI: 10.1117/2.1201405.005471 PDF

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Paper-Based Anti-Reflection Coatings for Photovoltaics

Dongheon Ha, Zhiqiang Fang, Liangbing Hu and Jeremy N. Munday

Adv. Energy Mater., 4, 1301804 (2014) PDF

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Novel Nanostructured Paper with Ultrahigh Transparency and Ultrahigh Haze for Solar Cells

Zhiqiang Fang, Hongli Zhu, Yongbo Yuan, Dongheon Ha, Shuze Zhu, Colin Preston, Qingxia Chen, Yuanyuan Li, Xiaogang Han, Seongwoo Lee, Gang Chen, Teng Li, Jeremy Munday, Jinsong Huang, and Liangbing Hu

Nano Lett., 14, 765–773 (2014) PDF

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Light trapping in a polymer solar cell by tailored quantum dot emission

Yunlu Xu and Jeremy N. Munday

Opt. Exp., 22, A259-A267 (2014) PDF

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Designing Photonic Materials for Effective Bandgap Modification and Optical Concentration in Photovoltaics

Yunlu Xu and Jeremy N. Munday

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 4, 233 - 236 (2014) PDF

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Approaching the limits of transparency and conductivity in graphitic materials through lithium intercalation

Wenzhong Bao, Jiayu Wan, Xiaogang Han, Xinghan Cai, Hongli Zhu, Dohun Kim, Dakang Ma, Yunlu Xu, Jeremy N. Munday, H. Dennis Drew, Michael S. Fuhrer & Liangbing Hu

Nature Communications, 5, 4224, (2014) PDF

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2013

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