US 11,807,950 B2
Solar thermoplasmonic nanofurnaces and method for making and using same
Vladimir M. Shalaev, West Lafayette, IN (US); Zhaxylyk Kudyshev, West Lafayette, IN (US); Alexandra Boltasseva, West Lafayette, IN (US); Alberto Naldoni, Olomouc (CZ); Alexander Kildishev, West Lafayette, IN (US); Luca Mascaretti, Olomouc (CZ); Stephán Kment, Olomouc (CZ); Radek Zboril, Olomouc (CZ); Jeong Eun Yoo, Erlangen (DE); and Patrik Schmuki, Erlangen (DE)
Assigned to Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US)
Filed by Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US); Palacky University, Olomouc (CZ); and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen (DE)
Filed on May 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/734,934.
Application 17/734,934 is a division of application No. 16/865,365, filed on May 3, 2020, granted, now 11,319,640.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/843,058, filed on May 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0333266 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. C25D 11/26 (2006.01); G02B 5/00 (2006.01); C01B 21/076 (2006.01)
CPC C25D 11/26 (2013.01) [C01B 21/076 (2013.01); G02B 5/008 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A thermoplasmonic device, comprising:
a titanium film;
a plurality of titanium nitride tube elements disposed on the titanium film, each of the titanium nitride tube elements having an open top, a titanium nitride bottom, and a titanium nitride tubular middle portion extending from the open top to the titanium nitride bottom;
wherein at least some of the plurality of titanium nitride tube elements have a length from the open top to the titanium nitride bottom of 150 nm to 200 nm.