Korsa Matiyas Tsegay, Petersen Søren, Rahmani Neda, Shabani Alireza, Mishra Yogendra Kumar, Adam Jost
Computational Materials Group, SDU Centre for Photonics Engineering, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense, Denmark.
Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, University of Southern Denmark, DK-6400 Sønderborg, Denmark.
Nanomaterials (Basel). 2022 Jul 28;12(15):2585. doi: 10.3390/nano12152585.
Recent advances in nanoscale fabrication and characterization further accelerated research on photonics and plasmonics, which has already attracted long-standing interest. Alongside morphological constraints, phenomena in both fields highly depend on the materials' optical properties, dimensions, and surroundings. Building up the required knowledge and experience to design next-generation photonic devices can be a complex task for novice and experienced researchers who intend to evaluate the impact of subtle material and morphology variations while setting up experiments or getting a general overview. Here, we introduce the Photonic Materials Cloud (PMCloud), a web-based, interactive open tool for designing and analyzing photonic materials. PMCloud allows identification of the subtle differences between optical material models generated from a database, experimental data input, and inline-generated materials from various analytical models. Furthermore, it provides a fully interactive interface to evaluate their performance in important fundamental (numerical) optical experiments. We demonstrate PMCloud's applicability to state-of-the-art research questions, namely the comparison of the novel plasmonic materials aluminium-doped zinc oxide and zirconium nitride and the design of an optical, dielectric thin-film Bragg reflector. PMCloud opens a rapid, freely accessible path towards prototyping optical materials and simple fundamental devices and may serve as an educational platform for photonic materials research.
纳米尺度制造与表征方面的最新进展进一步加速了对光子学和等离子体学的研究，而这两个领域早已备受长期关注。除了形态学限制外，这两个领域中的现象还高度依赖于材料的光学性质、尺寸和周围环境。对于想要在开展实验或进行总体概述时评估细微材料和形态变化影响的新手和经验丰富的研究人员而言，积累设计下一代光子器件所需的知识和经验可能是一项复杂的任务。在此，我们介绍光子材料云（PMCloud），这是一个基于网络的交互式开放工具，用于设计和分析光子材料。PMCloud能够识别从数据库生成的光学材料模型、实验数据输入以及来自各种分析模型的内联生成材料之间的细微差异。此外，它还提供了一个完全交互式的界面，用于评估它们在重要的基础（数值）光学实验中的性能。我们展示了PMCloud在前沿研究问题中的适用性，即新型等离子体材料掺铝氧化锌和氮化锆的比较以及光学介质薄膜布拉格反射器的设计。PMCloud为光学材料和简单基础器件的原型制作开辟了一条快速、免费获取的途径，并且可以作为光子材料研究的教育平台。
