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Malek Mahmoudi

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arXiv2026

Nanoparticle Arrays for Efficient Organic Light-Emitting Diode Emission Management

OLEDs are increasingly applied in illumination and displays because they offer excellent color quality, are mechanically flexible, and are self-emissive. However, their usage is limited by low external quantum efficiency (EQE) and efficiency roll-off at high driving voltages. These limitations, together with demands for smaller pixels and device sizes in emerging technologies, motivate innovations that increase efficiency and allow replacing external optical elements with embedded solutions. Here, we demonstrate enhanced outcoupling as well as directional and polarization control of OLED emission, based on collective surface lattice resonances of plasmonic nanoparticle arrays that are embedded in the active layers of four different state-of-the-art OLED structures. Both square arrays and more complex lattices producing flat bands are demonstrated to guide the light to directions and polarizations determined by their optical modes. We show that by the design of the array geometry and the OLED structure, spectral and angular enhancement of the electroluminescence (EL), up to 30 %, can be achieved. Our results verify that surface lattice resonances of nanoparticle arrays offer a robust and versatile embedded solution for tailoring the OLED emission, as well as exciting prospects for efficiency increase if combined with narrow-spectrum emitters.

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arXiv2026

Flat Bands from Diffraction in Periodic Systems

Periodic photonic structures enable precise control over the light-matter interaction through band structure engineering. Certain lattice geometries exhibit dispersionless flat bands, characterized by vanishing group velocity and diverging density of states, which present unique opportunities for applications such as slow light, nonlinear optical processes and controlling photoluminescence. However, thus far, flat bands have not been reported in systems where the lattice sites are radiatively coupled over a long range. Here we show that lattices consisting of superposed equispaced one dimensional chains exhibit flat bands with a purely diffractive origin, with the energies and angles of the flat bands controlled by the geometrical parameters of the lattice and the unit cell. The flat bands extend over all angles, can have linewidths on the order of a few nanometers, and are linearly polarized. We experimentally observe flat bands at predicted energies in lattices of gold nanoparticles at near-infrared frequencies using Fourier spectroscopy. Our results provide a general and efficient design strategy for lattices with flat, polarized dispersions for applications such as flat-band lasing, enhancing light-matter interaction, and controlling the emission or absorption of electromagnetic radiation over a wide spectral range.

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