Van der Waals heterostructures

A Castellanos-Gomez, X Duan, Z Fei… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The integration of dissimilar materials into heterostructures has become a powerful tool for
engineering interfaces and electronic structure. The advent of 2D materials has provided …

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 …

A progress review on solid‐state LiDAR and nanophotonics‐based LiDAR sensors

N Li, CP Ho, J Xue, LW Lim, G Chen… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors enable precision sensing of an object in 3D.
LiDAR technology is widely used in metrology, environment monitoring, archaeology, and …

High-power portable terahertz laser systems

A Khalatpour, AK Paulsen, C Deimert… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Terahertz (THz) frequencies remain among the least utilized in the electromagnetic
spectrum, largely due to the lack of powerful and compact sources. The invention of THz …

Electrically pumped topological laser with valley edge modes

Y Zeng, U Chattopadhyay, B Zhu, B Qiang, J Li, Y Jin… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Quantum cascade lasers are compact, electrically pumped light sources in the
technologically important mid-infrared and terahertz region of the electromagnetic spectrum …

An overview of lidar imaging systems for autonomous vehicles

S Royo, M Ballesta-Garcia - Applied sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Lidar imaging systems are one of the hottest topics in the optronics industry. The need to
sense the surroundings of every autonomous vehicle has pushed forward a race dedicated …

Portable spectroscopy

RA Crocombe - Applied spectroscopy, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Until very recently, handheld spectrometers were the domain of major analytical and security
instrument companies, with turnkey analyzers using spectroscopic techniques from X-ray …

Layer-by-layer assembly of two-dimensional materials into wafer-scale heterostructures

K Kang, KH Lee, Y Han, H Gao, S Xie, DA Muller… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
High-performance semiconductor films with vertical compositions that are designed to
atomic-scale precision provide the foundation for modern integrated circuitry and novel …

All-dielectric metamaterials

S Jahani, Z Jacob - Nature nanotechnology, 2016 - nature.com
The ideal material for nanophotonic applications will have a large refractive index at optical
frequencies, respond to both the electric and magnetic fields of light, support large optical …

Infrared laser-absorption sensing for combustion gases

CS Goldenstein, RM Spearrin, JB Jeffries… - Progress in Energy and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Infrared laser-absorption spectroscopy (IR-LAS) sensors play an important role in
diagnosing and characterizing a wide range of combustion systems. Of all the laser …