Van der Waals heterostructures

A Castellanos-Gomez, X Duan, Z Fei… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The integration of dissimilar materials into heterostructures has become a powerful tool for
engineering interfaces and electronic structure. The advent of 2D materials has provided …

Moiré photonics and optoelectronics

L Du, MR Molas, Z Huang, G Zhang, F Wang, Z Sun - Science, 2023 - science.org
Moiré superlattices, the artificial quantum materials, have provided a wide range of
possibilities for the exploration of completely new physics and device architectures. In this …

Interface nano-optics with van der Waals polaritons

Q Zhang, G Hu, W Ma, P Li, A Krasnok, R Hillenbrand… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Polaritons are hybrid excitations of matter and photons. In recent years, polaritons in van der
Waals nanomaterials—known as van der Waals polaritons—have shown great promise to …

Moiré heterostructures as a condensed-matter quantum simulator

DM Kennes, M Claassen, L Xian, A Georges, AJ Millis… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Twisted van der Waals heterostructures have latterly received prominent attention for their
many remarkable experimental properties and the promise that they hold for realizing …

WS2 moiré superlattices derived from mechanical flexibility for hydrogen evolution reaction

L Xie, L Wang, W Zhao, S Liu, W Huang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The discovery of moiré superlattices (MSLs) opened an era in the research of 'twistronics'.
Engineering MSLs and realizing unique emergent properties are key challenges. Herein, we …

Direct Bottom-Up In Situ Growth: A Paradigm Shift for Studies in Wet-Chemical Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles

GA Vinnacombe-Willson, Y Conti, A Stefancu… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic gold nanoparticles have been used increasingly in solid-state systems because
of their applicability in fabricating novel sensors, heterogeneous catalysts, metamaterials …

Topological polaritons and photonic magic angles in twisted α-MoO3 bilayers

G Hu, Q Ou, G Si, Y Wu, J Wu, Z Dai, A Krasnok… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Twisted two-dimensional bilayer materials exhibit many exotic electronic phenomena.
Manipulating the 'twist angle'between the two layers enables fine control of the electronic …

Photonics with hexagonal boron nitride

JD Caldwell, I Aharonovich, G Cassabois… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
For more than seven decades, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been employed as an
inert, thermally stable engineering ceramic; since 2010, it has also been used as the optimal …

Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials

Y Wu, J Duan, W Ma, Q Ou, P Li… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Polaritons, originating from the interactions between photons and material excitations, have
attracted attention because of their strong field compression and deeply subdiffractional …

Light–matter interactions with photonic quasiparticles

N Rivera, I Kaminer - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Interactions between light and matter play an instrumental role in spectroscopy, sensing,
quantum information processing and lasers. In most of these applications, light is considered …