Photonic van der Waals integration from 2D materials to 3D nanomembranes

Y Meng, J Feng, S Han, Z Xu, W Mao, T Zhang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The integration of functional nanomaterials and heterostructures with photonic architectures
has laid the foundation for important photonic and optoelectronic applications. The advent of …

Optical metasurfaces for energy conversion

E Cortés, FJ Wendisch, L Sortino, A Mancini… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Hyperbolic polaritonic crystals with configurable low-symmetry Bloch modes

J Lv, Y Wu, J Liu, Y Gong, G Si, G Hu, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Photonic crystals (PhCs) are a kind of artificial structures that can mold the flow of light at
will. Polaritonic crystals (PoCs) made from polaritonic media offer a promising route to …

Wireless power transfer based on novel physical concepts

M Song, P Jayathurathnage, E Zanganeh… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Wireless power transfer—the transmission of electromagnetic energy without physical
connectors such as wires or waveguides—typically exploits electromagnetic field control …

Hyperbolic metamaterials: fusing artificial structures to natural 2D materials

D Lee, S So, G Hu, M Kim, T Badloe, H Cho, J Kim… - ELight, 2022 - Springer
Optical metamaterials have presented an innovative method of manipulating light.
Hyperbolic metamaterials have an extremely high anisotropy with a hyperbolic dispersion …

Topological metamaterials

X Ni, S Yves, A Krasnok, A Alu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The topological properties of an object, associated with an integer called the topological
invariant, are global features that cannot change continuously but only through abrupt …

Ghost hyperbolic surface polaritons in bulk anisotropic crystals

W Ma, G Hu, D Hu, R Chen, T Sun, X Zhang, Q Dai… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Polaritons in anisotropic materials result in exotic optical features, which can provide
opportunities to control light at the nanoscale,,,,,,,,–. So far these polaritons have been …

Real-space nanoimaging of hyperbolic shear polaritons in a monoclinic crystal

G Hu, W Ma, D Hu, J Wu, C Zheng, K Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Various optical crystals possess permittivity components of opposite signs along different
principal directions in the mid-infrared regime, exhibiting exotic anisotropic phonon …

Experimental probe of twist angle–dependent band structure of on-chip optical bilayer photonic crystal

H Tang, B Lou, F Du, M Zhang, X Ni, W Xu, R Jin… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Recently, twisted bilayer photonic materials have been extensively used for creating and
studying photonic tunability through interlayer couplings. While twisted bilayer photonic …

Doping-driven topological polaritons in graphene/α-MoO3 heterostructures

H Hu, N Chen, H Teng, R Yu, Y Qu, J Sun… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Control over charge carrier density provides an efficient way to trigger phase transitions and
modulate the optoelectronic properties of materials. This approach can also be used to …