Owen Miller

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Miller Group
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering
Room / Office: 141 ESC II
Office Address:
520 West Campus Drive
West Haven, CT 06516
Mailing Address:
300 Heffernan Drive
West Haven, CT 06516
Phone: (203) 737-6680
Email: owen.miller@yale.edu

Interests:

The Miller Group specializes in design and optimization of wave systems at the micro and nanoscales. We use computation and theory, aiming to open the design space–in photonics, elastodynamics, and more general wave systems–through two approaches:  (1) efficiently exploring high-dimensional spaces via large-scale computational optimization, and (2) developing analytical techniques to model new phenomena and discover fundamental response limits. We apply these techniques to application areas including photovoltaics, near-field optics, nanoparticle scatterers, thermal radiation, and more. Our goal is to describe and discover fundamental device performance limits, and to design devices approaching those limits.

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Selected Publications:

  • “Fundamental limits to optical response in absorptive systems,” O. D. Miller, A. G. Polimeridis, M. T. Homer Reid, C. W. Hsu, B. G. DeLacy, J. D. Joannopoulos, M. Soljačić, and S. G. Johnson, Opt. Express 24, 3329 (2016)

  • “Shape-independent limits to near-field radiative heat transfer,” O. D. Miller, S. G. Johnson, and A. W. Rodriguez, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 204302 (2015)

  • “Strong internal and external luminescence as solar cells approach the Shockley–Queisser limit,” O. D. Miller, E. Yablonovitch, and S. R. Kurtz, IEEE J. Photovoltaics 2, 303–311 (2012)

  • “Light trapping textures designed by electromagnetic optimization for subwavelength thick solar cells,” V. Ganapati, O. D. Miller, and E. Yablonovitch, IEEE J. Photovoltaics 4, 175–182 (2014)

  • “Fundamental limits to extinction by metallic nanoparticles,” O. D. Miller, C. W. Hsu, M. T. H. Reid, W. Qiu, B. G. DeLacy, J. D. Joannopoulos, M. Soljačić, and S. G. Johnson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 123903 (2014)

  • “Effectiveness of thin films in lieu of hyperbolic metamaterials in the near field,” O. D. Miller, S. G. Johnson, and A. W. Rodriguez, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 157402 (2014)

  • “Efficient broad- and tunable-bandwidth optical extinction via aspect-ratio-tailored silver nanodisks,” E. Anquillare, O. D. Miller, C. W. Hsu, B. G. DeLacy, J. D. Joannopoulos, S. G. Johnson, and M. Soljačić, Opt. Express 24, 10806–16 (2016)

  • “Optimization of sharp and viewing-angle-independent structural color,” C. W. Hsu, O. D. Miller, S. G. Johnson, and M. Soljačić, Opt. Express 23, 9516 (2015)