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纳米光子学,产生于纳米技术和光子学的交界处,处理光和物质在纳米尺度的相互作用,可以被用来产生新的效果和发展纳米尺度的器件。世界在迎接未来能源需求方面正面临巨大挑战。纳米光子学为太阳能转换提供了新的进展。在太阳能转换领域,我们正加速开展新的基于纳米光子学让太阳光子在整个光谱范围从紫外到红外有效率地被吸收和转换,并且有效率地转换为电能方面的研究(比如直接或者电化学的转换)。纳米技术也为热电和能量储存方面的研究提供了新的途径,我们正追求把它们和太阳能获取整合在一起从而提供广泛的能源解决方案。
Nanophotonics, produced at the junction of nanotechnology and photonics, deals with the interaction of light and matter at the nanoscale and can be used to create new effects and develop nanoscale devices. The world is facing huge challenges in meeting the energy needs of the future. Nanophotonics has provided new advances in solar energy conversion. In the field of solar energy conversion, we are accelerating the development of new nanophotonics-based systems that allow sunlight to be efficiently absorbed and converted from ultraviolet to infrared over the entire spectral range and efficiently converted to electricity (such as direct or electrochemical Conversion). Nanotechnology also offers new avenues for research in thermoelectric and energy storage and we are pursuing their integration with solar energy harvesting to provide a wide range of energy solutions.