Applications of bound states in the continuum in photonics

M Kang, T Liu, CT Chan, M Xiao - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted attention in photonics owing to their
interesting properties. For example, BICs can effectively confine light in a counterintuitive …

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 …

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 …

Photonic flatband resonances for free-electron radiation

Y Yang, C Roques-Carmes, SE Kooi, H Tang, J Beroz… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Flatbands have become a cornerstone of contemporary condensed-matter physics and
photonics. In electronics, flatbands entail comparable energy bandwidth and Coulomb …

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 …

Reconfigurable moiré nanolaser arrays with phase synchronization

HY Luan, YH Ouyang, ZW Zhao, WZ Mao, RM Ma - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
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Far-field coupling between moiré photonic lattices

J Guan, J Hu, Y Wang, MJH Tan, GC Schatz… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Superposing two or more periodic structures to form moiré patterns is emerging as a
promising platform to confine and manipulate light. However, moiré-facilitated interactions …

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 …

Nonlinear physics of moiré superlattices

L Du, Z Huang, J Zhang, F Ye, Q Dai, H Deng… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Nonlinear physics is one of the most important research fields in modern physics and
materials science. It offers an unprecedented paradigm for exploring many fascinating …