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 …

A Review of Scalable Hexagonal Boron Nitride (h‐BN) Synthesis for Present and Future Applications

AE Naclerio, PR Kidambi - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hexagonal boron nitride (h‐BN) is a layered inorganic synthetic crystal exhibiting high
temperature stability and high thermal conductivity. As a ceramic material it has been widely …

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 …

Bandgap engineering of two-dimensional semiconductor materials

A Chaves, JG Azadani, H Alsalman… - npj 2D Materials and …, 2020 - nature.com
Semiconductors are the basis of many vital technologies such as electronics, computing,
communications, optoelectronics, and sensing. Modern semiconductor technology can trace …

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 …

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 …

Quo vadis, metasurfaces?

CW Qiu, T Zhang, G Hu, Y Kivshar - Nano letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
The full manipulation of intrinsic properties of electromagnetic waves has become the
central target in various modern optical technologies. Optical metasurfaces have been …

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 …

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 …