This technique enabled them to design and create a novel optical polarizer that changes selectivity based on the temperature.
Scientists spanning the globe contributed to this research. The manuscript’s co-first authors, Jura Rensberg and Shuyan Zhang, are pursuing Ph.D.s in Ronning’s laboratory in Germany and in Professor Federico Capasso’s at Harvard University, respectively. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, also were instrumental to the project.
Funding for the research came from the Initiative and Networking Fund of the German Helmholtz Association, the German Academic Exchange Service, the U.S. Army and Air Force, Draper Laboratory, the Moore Foundation, the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network and the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research.
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