Incoherent light management

Approaches

Our group develops concepts based on micro and nanostructurions to allow the spectral and spatial control of incoherent or low coherence light. We develop a complete methodology based on theoretical predictions, multi-scale and multi-domain modeling (optical, thermal, electrical, etc.), design, production and experimental study of dedicated periodic or pseudo-disordered structures.

Topics

• Radiative cooling : optimization of the light-matter interaction in the thermal range of the spectrum, in particular to improve the cooling of photovoltaic modules by thermal radiation while maintaining enough visible absorption.
• Photocatalysis : confinement of photons and phonons in micronanostructures to remove pollution of water and air, production of solar fuels by hydrolysis or artificial photosynthesis.
• Photovoltaics : light trapping in singlejunction or tandem photovoltaics cells with ultra-thin layers.
• LEDs and µ-displays : control of the radiation (spectrum, directivity) of non-coherent sources, wavelength conversion (fluorescence, non-radiative transfer) assisted by the density of photonic states.

Recents and on-going projects

• IDEXLYON Scientific Breakthrough IPPON [2018-2021], Incoherent light and Phonon management in micro-nanopatterned materials for efficient depollution and artificial PhOtosyNthesis. Coordonné par l’INL, avec le Lab.HC, l’ILM et l’IRCELYON.
• ANR EMIPERO, Electrically pumped hybrid perovskites based light-emitting devices. Projet coordonné par l’ENS Saclay, avec l’INL et XLIM.

Publications

• Capitolis, J., Hamandi, M., Hochedel, M., El-Jallal, S., Drouard, E., Chevalier, C., Leclercq, J.-L., Penuelas, J., Dursap, T., Brottet, S., Devif, B., Nguyen, H.S., Berhault, G., Chovelon, J.-M., Ferronato, C., Guillard, C., Puzenat, E., Crespo-Monteiro, N., Reynaud, S., Jourlin, Y., Bugnet, M., Seassal, C. (2022) “Two-dimensional photonic metasurfaces for slow light-controlled photocatalysis<:a>.Nano Select, 3(1), 108-117.
• Ndiaye, A., Ghazouani, A., Seassal, C., Drouard, E., Olivier, N., Bakir, B.B. (2021). Enhanced light-extraction efficiency and emission directivity in compact photonic-crystal based AlGaInP thin-films for color conversion applications. Optics Express, 29(22), 35965-35979.
• Mermet-Lyaudoz, R., Combeau, P., Drouard, E., Julien-Vergonjanne, A., Seassal, C., Nguyen, H.S., Sahuguède, S. (2021), Multiscale Simulation for Visible Light Communication using Perovskite Metasurface, 2021 17th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS)
• Dumoulin, J., Drouard, E., Amara, M. (2021). Radiative sky cooling of solar cells: fundamental modelling and cooling potential of single-junction devices. Sustainable Energy & Fuels,7
• Hoang, N.-V., Pereira, A., Nguyen, H. S., Drouard, E., Moine, B., Deschamps, T. Seassal, C. (2017). Giant Enhancement of Luminescence Down-Shifting by a Doubly Resonant Rare-Earth-Doped Photonic Metastructure. ACS Photonics, 4(7), 1705–1712.
• Gaucher, A., Cattoni, A., Dupuis, C., Chen, W., Cariou, R., Foldyna, M., Lalouat, L., Drouard, E., Seassal, C., RocaCabarrocas, P., Collin, S. (2016) “Ultrathin Epitaxial Silicon Solar Cells with Inverted Nanopyramid Arrays for Efficient Light Trapping,” Nano Lett., vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 5358–5364, Sep. 2016
• Ding, H., Lalouat, L., Gonzalez-Acevedo, B., Orobtchouk, R., Seassal, C., & Drouard, E. (2016). Design rules for net absorption enhancement in pseudo-disordered photonic crystal for thin film solar cells. Optics Express, 24(6), A650.
• Depauw et al. Nanophotonics for Ultra-Thin Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaics: When Photons (Actually) Meet Electrons. 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference-EUPVSEC, 2015, Hamburg, Germany
• Benali, A., Michallon, J., Regreny, P., Drouard, E., Rojo, P., Chauvin, N., … Gendry, M. (2014). Optical simulation of multijunction solar cells based on III-V nanowires on silicon. Energy Procedia, 60 (2014).

Staff

• Coordinator : Emmanuel Drouard
• Permanents : Mohamed Amara, Christian Seassal
• PhD & Post-doc : Jérémy Dumoulin, Raphaël Mermet-Lyaudoz; Eirini Sarelli