Stanford researchers in the Fan Lab have developed a method that dramatically accelerates and optimizes metamaterial design with little computational resource and time using generative neural networks.
Stanford researchers in the Fan Lab have developed a photonic device optimizer that generates designs with hard geometric constraints to guarantee device fabricability.
Stanford researchers have developed an optical coating that steers infrared and visual light in different paths while suppressing the typical undesired rainbow effect.
Stanford researchers patented a method to design, computationally optimize and fabricate efficient optical devices using semiconducting and dielectric nanostructures.
Solar cells containing halide perovskite absorbers have shown large improvements in power conversion efficiency over the last eight years and now exceed 20%. This makes them competitive with many commercial technologies like polycrystalline silicon and CdTe.