It is shown that the resolution of virtual images of dye-doped dielectric nanospheres obtained through dielectric microspheres can be increased beyond the classical diffr[...]

In this Dissertation our work on `enhanced thermally managed packaging of high power semiconductor light sources for solid state lighting (SSL)' is presented. The motivat[...]

Progress in nanofabrication made possible development of metamaterials and nanoplamonics two decades ago. The area of mesoscale photonics where the characteristic dimensi[...]

Raman and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy are two of the major spectroscopic techniques that are currently used in studies on solid state materials. Raman spectroscop[...]

Microspherical photonics emerged in recent years in the context of fundamentally new optical properties of structures formed by coupled dielectric microspheres. These inc[...]

In this thesis we investigated the spatial and spectral mode profiles, and the optical transport properties of single and multiple coupled cavities. We performed numerica[...]

In this work, the in vitro characterization profiles of delivery vehicles, specifically polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers, are assessed to investigate their impact on pre[...]

Recently, there is an increasing demand for III-nitride semiconductor based optoelectronic devices, and especially for ultraviolet (UV) and Deep UV sources and sensors; h[...]

In this study, we used scattering-scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) to experimentally characterize several structures relevant to infrared (IR) antenna tech[...]

With the advent of microsphere assisted microscopy in 2011, this technique emerged as a simple and easy way to obtain optical super-resolution. Although the possible mech[...]