Engineered moiré photonic and phononic superlattices

M Oudich, X Kong, T Zhang, C Qiu, Y Jing - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Recent discoveries of Mott insulating and unconventional superconducting states in twisted
bilayer graphene with moiré superlattices have not only reshaped the landscape of …

Topological phononic metamaterials

W Zhu, W Deng, Y Liu, J Lu, HX Wang… - Reports on Progress …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The concept of topological energy bands and their manifestations have been demonstrated
in condensed matter systems as a fantastic paradigm toward unprecedented physical …

Enhanced light–matter interaction in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

L Huang, A Krasnok, A Alú, Y Yu… - Reports on Progress …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) materials, such as
MoS 2, WS 2, MoSe 2, and WSe 2, have received extensive attention in the past decade due …

Extreme light confinement and control in low-symmetry phonon-polaritonic crystals

E Galiffi, G Carini, X Ni, G Álvarez-Pérez… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Polaritons are a hybrid class of quasiparticles originating from the strong and resonant
coupling between light and matter excitations. Recent years have witnessed a surge of …

Moiré quasibound states in the continuum

L Huang, W Zhang, X Zhang - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The novel physics of twisted bilayer graphene has motivated extensive studies of magic-
angle flat bands hosted by moiré structures in electronic, photonic, and acoustic systems. On …

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 …

Perspectives on spintronics with surface acoustic waves

J Puebla, Y Hwang, S Maekawa, Y Otani - Applied Physics Letters, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are elastic waves propagating on the surface of solids with
the amplitude decaying into the solid. The well-established fabrication of compact SAW …

Topological network modes in a twisted moiré phononic crystal

D Yao, L Ye, Z Fu, Q Wang, H He, J Lu, W Deng… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Twisted moiré materials, a new class of layered structures with different twist angles for
neighboring layers, are attracting great attention because of the rich intriguing physical …

Flat bands in magic-angle vibrating plates

M Rosendo López, F Peñaranda, J Christensen… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Twisted bilayer graphene develops quasiflat bands at specific “magic” interlayer rotation
angles through an unconventional mechanism connected to carrier chirality. Quasiflat bands …

Photonic analog of bilayer graphene

M Oudich, G Su, Y Deng, W Benalcazar, R Huang… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Drawing inspiration from bilayer graphene, this paper introduces its photonic analog
comprising two stacked graphenelike photonic crystals that are coupled in the near field …