Publications
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Books and book chapters
1. Planar plasmonic structures and nonlinear metal-dielectric subwavelength waveguides
A.R. Davoyan, I.V. Shadrivov, and Yu.S. Kivshar
In “Modern Problems of Optics and Photonics”, eds. G. Kryuchkyan, G. Gurzadyan, and A. Papoyan, pp. 182-196, World Scientific, Singapore (2010).
2. Active Guiding of Dirac Plasmons in Graphene
M. Yu. Morozov, A. R. Davoyan, I. M. Moiseenko, A. Satou, T. Otsuji, V. V. Popov
In “Graphene-Based Terahertz Electronics and Plasmonics”, eds. Vladimir Mitin, Taiichi Otsuji, Victor Ryzhii, pp. 12, Jenny Stanford Publishing, New York (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429328398
3. Plasmonic Terahertz Lasing in an Array of Graphene Nanocavities
V. V. Popov, O. V. Polischuk, A. R. Davoyan, V. Ryzhii, T. Otsuji, M. S. Shur
In “Graphene-Based Terahertz Electronics and Plasmonics”, eds. Vladimir Mitin, Taiichi Otsuji, Victor Ryzhii, pp. 12, Jenny Stanford Publishing, New York (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429328398
4. Graphene Surface Emitting Terahertz Laser: Diffusion Pumping Concept
A. R. Davoyan, M. Yu. Morozov, V. V. Popov, A. Satou, T. Otsuji
In “Graphene-Based Terahertz Electronics and Plasmonics”, eds. Vladimir Mitin, Taiichi Otsuji, Victor Ryzhii, pp. 12, Jenny Stanford Publishing, New York (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429328398
Preprints & white papers
7. Anomalous Reflection Under Ambient Sunlight: Accessing In-Plane Radiation Pressure for Solar Sailing.
T. Joly-Jehenne, A.R. Davoyan
arXiv:2307.09750
6. Exciton Assisted Deeply Subwavelength Nano-Photonics .
H. Ling, A. Manna, J. Shen, H.-T. Tung, D. Sharp, J. Fröch, S. Dai, A. Majumdar, A.R. Davoyan
arXiv:2302.06053
5. Solar Sail Propulsion by 2050: An Enabling Capability for Heliophysics Missions.
L. Johnson, N. Barnes, M. Ceriotti, T.Y. Chen, A. Davoyan, L. Friedman, D. Garber, R. Kezerashvili, K. Kobayashi, G. Matloff, C. McInnes, P. Mulligan, G. Swartzlander, S. G. Turyshev
arXiv:2301.01297
4. Non-Nuclear Exploration of the Solar System Study.
J. Brophy et al.
Keck Space Institute Study Report (2022)
3. A Mission to Nature’s Telescope for High-Resolution
Imaging of an Exoplanet.
L. D. Friedman, D. Garber, S.G. Turyshev, H. Helvajian, T. Heinshiemer, J. McVey, A.R. Davoyan
arXiv:2107.11473
S. G. Turyshev, H. Helvajian, L. D. Friedman, T. Heinsheimer, D. Garber, A. Davoyan, and V. T. Toth
arXiv:2007.05623
1. Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission.
S. G. Turyshev, M. Shao, V. T. Toth, L. D. Friedman, L. Alkalai, D. Mawet, J. Shen, M. R. Swain, H. Zhou, H. Helvajian, T. Heinsheimer, S. Janson, Z. Leszczynski, J. McVey, D. Garber, A.R. Davoyan, S. Redfield, J.R. Males
arXiv:2002.11871
News & Media coverage:
Phys.org: “The bold plan to see continents and oceans on another Earth”
NASA: “NASA Selects Early-Stage Technology Concepts for New, Continued Study.”
Futurism: “NASA Telescope Idea Could Spot Vegetation on Distant Exoplanets.”
Phys.org: “NASA selects early-stage technology concepts for new, continued study.”
Peer-reviewed journal publications
63. One-way light flow by spatio-temporal modulation.
M.A.A. Abouelatta, M.A. Swillam, A.R. Davoyan, and A.M. Mahmoud
Optics Express 31, 14278 (2023)
62. Atomic-Void van der Waals Channel Waveguides.
H. Ling, A. R. Davoyan
Nano Letters 22, 6254 (2022)
61. Light control with atomically thin magnets.
H. Ling, A. R. Davoyan
Nature Photonics 16, 259 (2022)
J. Digani, P. W.C. Hon, A. R. Davoyan
ACS Photonics 9, 432 (2022)
59. A Fast Response Mission to Rendezvous with an Interstellar Object.
D. Garber, L. D. Friedman, A. Davoyan, S. G. Turyshev, N. Melamed, J. McVey, T. F. Sheerin
Experimental Astronomy 53, 945 (2022)
News & Media coverage:
SyFy WIRE: “Solar-Sailing Cubesat Concept Could Give Better Look At Weird Objects Like ‘Oumuamua”
UNIVERSE TODAY: “A Small Satellite With a Solar Sail Could Catch up With an Interstellar Object”
NewScientist: “Solar sail spacecraft could be used to intercept interstellar objects”
58. Low-Power Laser Sailing for Fast-Transit Space Flight.
H.T. Tung and A.R. Davoyan
Nano Letters 22, 1108 (2022).
News & Media coverage:
Interesting Engineering: “Lightsails are becoming an even more powerful tool for space exploration”
EurekAlert!: “Tiny probes could sail to outer planets with the help of low-power lasers”
AZO optics: “Low-Power Lasers Propel Much Faster than Rocket Engines”
Science Daily: “Tiny probes could sail to outer planets with the help of low-power lasers”
Universe Today: “Laser-Powered Sails Would be Great for Exploring the Solar System too”
57. Light-Matter Coupling in Large Area Van der Waals Superlattices.
P. Kumar, J. Lynch, B. Song, H. Ling, F. Barrera, H. Zhang, S. B. Anantharaman, J. Digani, H. Zhu, T. H. Choudhury, C. McAleese, X. Wang, B. R. Conran, O. Whear, M. J. Motala, M. Snure, C. Muratore, J. M. Redwing, N. R. Glavin, E. A. Stach, A. R. Davoyan, D. Jariwala
Nature Nanotechnology 17, 182 (2022)
56. Spatiotemporal Imaging of Thickness-Induced Band Bending Junctions.
J. Wong, A. R. Davoyan, B. Liao, A. Krayev, K. Jo, E. Rotenberg, A. Bostwick, C. Jozwiak, D. Jariwala, A. Zewail, H. A. Atwater
Nano Letters 21, 5745 (2021).
55. Photonic Materials for Interstellar Solar Sailing.
A.R. Davoyan, J. Munday, N. Tabirian, G. Shwartzlander, L. Johnson
Optica 8, 722 (2021).
News & Media coverage:
UCLA SEAS News: “Reinventing Solar Sail Technology to Push Space Exploration Boundaries”
54. All van der Waals Integrated Nanophotonics with Bulk Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.
H. Ling, R. Li, A.R. Davoyan
ACS Photonics 8, 721 (2021).
53. A perimeter control architecture for optical phased arrays and metasurfaces.
A.R. Davoyan and H. Atwater
Physical Review Applied 14, 024038 (2020).
52. Optical beaming of electrical discharges.
V. Shvedov, E. Pivnev, A.R. Davoyan, W. Krolikowski, and A. E. Miroshnichenko
Nature Communications 11, 5306 (2020).
News & Media coverage:
Miragenews.com: “New tractor beam has potential to tame lightning.”
DHT world news: “Scientists develop laser pen ‘tractor beam’ which can CONTROL lightning & prevent forest fires.”
Naked-Science.ru: “Физики продемонстрировали технологию контроля за молниями.“
Tech Explorist: “New technology can potentially tame lightning.“
51. Hybrid Exciton-Plasmon-Polariton Modes in van der Waals Semiconductor Gratings.
H. Zhang, B. Abhiraman, Q. Zhang, J. Miao, K. Jo, S. Roccasecca, M. W. Knight, A. R. Davoyan, D. Jariwala
Nature Communications 11, 3552 (2020).
News & Media coverage:
Phys.org: “Engineers manipulate color on the nanoscale, making it disappear.”
50. Direct Multi-Pixel Imaging and Spatially-Resolved Spectroscopy of a Potentially Habitable Exoplanet with the Solar Gravitational Lens.
S. Turyshev, M. Shao, L. Friedman, V. Toth, L. Alkalai, J. Shen, H. Zhou, N. Arora, A.R. Davoyan, D.D. Garber, H. Helvajian, T. Heinsheimer, S.W. Janson, L. Johnson, J.R. Males, R. Nakagawa, S. Redfield, N. Strange, M.R. Swain, D. Van Buren.
Astro2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, science white papers, no. 23; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 51, Issue 3, id. 23 (2019).
49. Nonreciprocal emission in magnetized epsilon-near-zero metamaterials.
A.R. Davoyan and N. Engheta
ACS Photonics 6, 581 (2019).
48. Mimicking surface polaritons for unpolarized light with high-permittivity materials
G.T. Papadakis, A.R. Davoyan, P. Yeh, and H.A. Atwater
Phys. Rev. Materials 3, 0152020 (2019).
47. Nanoporous Gold as a Highly Selective and Active Carbon Dioxide Reduction Catalyst
A.J. Welch, J.S. DuChene, G. Tagliabue, A.R. Davoyan, W.-H. Cheng, and H.A. Atwater
ACS Applied Energy Materials 2, 164 (2018).
Prior to UCLA
A.R. Davoyan and H.A. Atwater
Optica 5, 608 (2018).
45. Quantifying the role of surface plasmon excitation and hot carrier transport in plasmonic devices
G. Tagliabue, A.S. Jermyn, R. Sundararaman, A.J. Welch, J.S. DuChene, R. Pala, A.R. Davoyan, P. Narang, and H.A. Atwater
Nature Communications 9, 3394 (2018).
44. Materials challenges for the Starshot lightsail
H.A. Atwater, A.R. Davoyan, O. Ilic, D. Jariwala, M.C. Sherrott, C.M. Went, W.S. Whitney, and J. Wong
Nature Materials 17, 861–867 (2018).
43. Optical magnetism in planar metamaterial heterostructures
G.T. Papadakis, D. Fleischman, A.R. Davoyan, P. Yeh, H.A. Atwater
Nature Communications 9 (1), 296 (2018).
Y.-J. Lu, R. Sokhoyan, W.-H. Cheng, G. Kafaie-Shirmanesh, A.R. Davoyan, R.A. Pala, K. Thyagarajan, and H.A Atwater
Nature Communications 8 (1), 1631 (2017).
41. Van der Waals materials for atomically-thin photovoltaics: Promise and outlook
D. Jariwala, A.R. Davoyan, J. Wong, and H.A. Atwater
ACS Photonics 4 , 2962-2970 (2017).
40. High Photovoltaic Quantum Efficiency in Ultrathin van der Waals Heterostructures
J. Wong, D. Jariwala, G. Tagliabue, K. Tat, A.R. Davoyan, M. Sherrott, and H.A. Atwater
ACS Nano 11, 7230–7240 (2017).
39. Gate-Variable Mid-Infrared Optical Transitions in a BiSbTe3 Electronic Topological Insulator
W.S. Whitney, V.W. Brar, Y. Ou, A.R. Davoyan, K. He, Q.K. Xue, H.A. Atwater
Nano Letters 17, 255 (2017).
38. Near-Unity Absorption in Van der Waals Semiconductors for Ultrathin Optoelectronics
D. Jariwala, A.R. Davoyan, G. Tagliabue, M.C. Sherrott, J. Wong, H.A. Atwater
Nano Letters, 16, 5482–5487 (2016).
37. Salient Features of Deeply Subwavelength Guiding of Terahertz Radiation in Graphene-Coated Fibers
A.R. Davoyan and N. Engheta
ACS Photonics 3, 737-742 (2016).
36. All-passive nonreciprocal metastructure
A.M. Mahmoud, A.R. Davoyan, N. Engheta
Nature Communications 6, 8359 (2015).
35. One-way surface states due to nonreciprocal light-line crossing
F. Abbasi, A.R Davoyan, N. Engheta
New Journal of Physics 17, 063014 (2015).
34. NEMS With Broken T Symmetry: Graphene Based Unidirectional Acoustic Transmission Lines
M.B. Zanjani, A.R. Davoyan, N. Engheta, J.R. Lukes
Scientific Reports 5, 9926 (2015).
33. Active guiding of Dirac plasmons in graphene
M.Y. Morozov, A.R. Davoyan, I.M. Moiseenko, A. Satou, T. Otsuji, V.V. Popov
Applied Physics Letters 106, 061105 (2015).
32. Extreme and quantized magneto-optics with graphene meta-atoms and metasurfaces
Y. Hadad, A.R. Davoyan, N. Engheta, and B. Steinberg
ACS Photonics 1, 1068-1073 (2014).
31. Electrically controlled one-way photon flow in plasmonic nanostructures
A.R. Davoyan and N. Engheta
Nature Communications 5, 5250 (2014).
30. A long-range polarization-controlled optical tractor beam
V.G. Shvedov, A.R. Davoyan, C. Gnatovsky, N. Engheta, and W. Krolikowski
Nature Photonics 8, 846-850 (2014).
29. One-Way Phonon Isolation in Acoustic Waveguides
M. Zanjani, A.R. Davoyan, A.M. Mahmoud, J. Lukes, and N. Engheta
Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 081905 (2014).
28. Hotspots from nonreciprocal surface waves
U. Chettiar, A.R. Davoyan, and N. Engheta
Optics Letters 39, 1760 (2014).
27. Nonreciprocal Optics within a Wavelength Fraction
A.R. Davoyan and N. Engheta
Optics and Photonics News 24, 36-36 (2013).
A.R. Davoyan and V.V. Popov
Optics Communications 315, 352 (2014).
25. Graphene surface-emitting terahertz laser: Diffusion pumping concept
A.R. Davoyan, M. Y. Morozov, A. Satou, V.V. Popov, and T. Otsuji
Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 251102 (2013).
A.R. Davoyan and N. Engheta
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 257401 (2013).
23. Nanoscale plasmonic circulator
A.R. Davoyan and N. Engheta
New Journal of Physics 15, 083054 (2013).
22. Nonreciprocal rotating power flow within plasmonic nanostructures
A.R. Davoyan and N. Engheta
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 047401 (2013).
21. Self-similar parabolic plasmonic beams
A.R. Davoyan, S.K. Turitsyn, and Y.S. Kivshar
Opt. Lett. 38, 428 (2013).
20. Optical isolation with epsilon-near-zero metamaterials
A.R. Davoyan, A.M. Mahmoud, and N. Engheta
Opt. Express 21, 3279 (2013).
19. Plasmonic terahertz lasing in an array of graphene nanocavities
V.V. Popov, O.V. Polischuk, A.R. Davoyan, V. Ryzhii, T. Otsuji, and M.S. Shur
Phys. Rev. B 86, 195437 (2012).
18. Tailoring Terahertz Near-Field Enhancement via Two-Dimensional Plasmons
A.R. Davoyan, V.V. Popov, and S.A. Nikitov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 127401 (2012).
17. Multifrequency tapered plasmonic nanoantennas
I.S. Maksymov, A.R. Davoyan, A.E. Miroshnichenko, C. Simovski, P. Belov, and Y.S. Kivshar
Opt. Commun. 285, 821-824 (2012).
16. An arrayed nanoantenna for broadband light emission and detection
A.E. Miroshnichenko, I.S. Maksymov, A.R. Davoyan, C. Simovski, P. Belov, and Y.S. Kivshar
Phys. Stat. Solidi RRL, 5, 347-349 (2011).
15. Enhanced emission and light control with tapered plasmonic nanoantennas
I.S. Maksymov, A.R. Davoyan, and Y.S. Kivshar
Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 083304 (2011).
14. Mode transformation in waveguiding plasmonic structures
A.R. Davoyan, W. Liu, A.E. Miroshnichenko, I.V. Shadrivov, Y.S. Kivshar, and S.I. Bozhevolnyi
Photon. and Nanostruct. 9, 207-212 (2011).
12. Symmetry breaking in plasmonic waveguides with metal nonlinearities
A.R. Davoyan, I.V. Shadrivov, and Y.S. Kivshar
Opt. Lett. 36, 930-932 (2011).
11. Nonlinear nanofocusing in tapered plasmonic waveguides
A.R. Davoyan, I.V. Shadrivov, A.A. Zharov, D.K. Gramotnev, and Yu.S. Kivshar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 116804 (1-4) (2010).
10. Optimal tapers for compensating losses in plasmonic waveguides
A.R. Davoyan, I.V. Shadrivov, Y.S. Kivshar, and D.K. Gramotnev
Phys. Status Solidi RRL 4, 277279 (2010).
9. Backward and forward modes guided by metal-dielectric-metal plasmonic waveguides
A.R. Davoyan, I.V. Shadrivov, S.I. Bozhevolnyi, and Y.S. Kivshar
J. of Nanophotonics 4, 043509-10 (2010).
8. Propagation of Compound Signals via a Nonlinear Magnetostatic Wave Transmission Line
S.V. Grishin, A.R. Davoyan, and Y.P. Sharaevsky
J. Commun.Techn. and Electron. 55, 88-97 (2010).
7. Self-focusing and spatial plasmon-polariton solitons
A.R. Davoyan, I.V. Shadrivov, and Y.S. Kivshar
Opt. Express 17, 21732-21737 (2009).
6. Quadratic phase matching in nonlinear plasmonic nanoscale waveguides
A.R. Davoyan, I.V. Shadrivov, and Y.S. Kivshar
Opt. Express 17, 20063-20068 (2009).
5. Beam oscillations and curling in chirped periodic structures with metamaterials
A.R. Davoyan, I.V. Shadrivov, A.A. Surkhorukov, and Y.S. Kivshar
Phys. Rev. A 79, 013820-8 (2009).
4. Plasmonic Bloch oscillations in chirped metal-dielectric structures
A.R. Davoyan, I.V. Shadrivov, A.A. Surkhorukov, and Y.S. Kivshar
Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 161105-3 (2009).
3. Nonlinear plasmonic slot waveguides
A.R. Davoyan, I.V. Shadrivov, and Y.S. Kivshar
Opt. Express 16, 21209-21214 (2008).
2. Bloch oscillations in chirped layered structures with metamaterials
A.R. Davoyan, I.V. Shadrivov, A.A. Surkhorukov, and Y.S. Kivshar
Opt. Express 16, 3299-3304 (2008).
1. Nonlinear model of interaction of various power level signals in resonance transmission line on magnetostatic waves
S.V. Grishin, A.R. Davoyan, and Y.P. Sharaevsky
Nonlinear Appl. Dynamics 13, 123-134 (2005) [in Russian].