Plasmon-enhanced light–matter interactions and applications

H Yu, Y Peng, Y Yang, ZY Li - npj Computational Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Surface plasmons are coherent and collective electron oscillations confined at the dielectric–
metal interface. Benefitting from the inherent subwavelength nature of spatial profile, surface …

A perspective of twisted photonic structures

J Chen, X Lin, M Chen, T Low, H Chen, S Dai - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Moiré superlattices—twisted van der Waals (vdW) structures with small angles—are
attracting increasing attention in condensed matter physics, due to important phenomena …

Light emission by free electrons in photonic time-crystals

A Dikopoltsev, Y Sharabi, M Lyubarov… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Photonic time-crystals (PTCs) are spatially homogeneous media whose electromagnetic
susceptibility varies periodically in time, causing temporal reflections and refractions for any …

Observation of 2D Cherenkov radiation

Y Adiv, H Hu, S Tsesses, R Dahan, K Wang, Y Kurman… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
For over 80 years of research, the conventional description of free-electron radiation
phenomena, such as Cherenkov radiation, has remained unchanged: classical three …

Collision-induced broadband optical nonreciprocity

C Liang, B Liu, AN Xu, X Wen, C Lu, K Xia, MK Tey… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Optical nonreciprocity is an essential property for a wide range of applications, such as
building nonreciprocal optical devices that include isolators and circulators. The realization …

A Brewster route to Cherenkov detectors

X Lin, H Hu, S Easo, Y Yang, Y Shen, K Yin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cherenkov detectors enable a valuable tool to identify high-energy particles. However, their
sensitivity and momentum coverage are limited by the refractive index of host materials …

Chiral plasmons with twisted atomic bilayers

X Lin, Z Liu, T Stauber, G Gómez-Santos, F Gao… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
van der Waals heterostructures of atomically thin layers with rotational misalignments, such
as twisted bilayer graphene, feature interesting structural moiré superlattices. Because of the …

Recent advances in acoustic metamaterials for simultaneous sound attenuation and air ventilation performances

S Kumar, HP Lee - Crystals, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the past two decades, acoustic metamaterials have garnered much attention owing to
their unique functional characteristics, which are difficult to find in naturally available …

Ultrathin, polarization-insensitive multi-band absorbers based on graphene metasurface with THz sensing application

S Barzegar-Parizi, A Ebrahimi - JOSA B, 2020 - opg.optica.org
This article presents multi-band plasmonic absorbers based on a graphene array at
terahertz frequencies. The absorbers are made of a very simple structure including a …

Near‐field coupling of Janus dipoles beyond polarization locking

C Wang, Y Zhong, X Chen, H Wang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Polarization, as a fundamental property of light, plays a key role in many phenomena of near‐
field coupling, namely the coupling of source's evanescent waves into some guided modes …