Liquid crystal-templated chiral nanomaterials: from chiral plasmonics to circularly polarized luminescence

X Zhang, Y Xu, C Valenzuela, X Zhang… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Chiral nanomaterials with intrinsic chirality or spatial asymmetry at the nanoscale are
currently in the limelight of both fundamental research and diverse important technological …

Thermal photonics with broken symmetries

T Liu, C Guo, W Li, S Fan - ELight, 2022 - Springer
Nanophotonic engineering provides an effective platform to manipulate thermal emission on-
demand, enabling unprecedented heat management superior to conventional bulk …

Chiral emission from resonant metasurfaces

X Zhang, Y Liu, J Han, Y Kivshar, Q Song - Science, 2022 - science.org
Ultracompact sources of circularly polarized light are important for classical and quantum
optical information processing. Conventional approaches for generating chiral emission are …

Observation of intrinsic chiral bound states in the continuum

Y Chen, H Deng, X Sha, W Chen, R Wang, YH Chen… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Photons with spin angular momentum possess intrinsic chirality, which underpins many
phenomena including nonlinear optics, quantum optics, topological photonics and …

A magnetic assembly approach to chiral superstructures

Z Li, Q Fan, Z Ye, C Wu, Z Wang, Y Yin - Science, 2023 - science.org
Colloidal assembly into chiral superstructures is usually accomplished with templating or
lithographic patterning methods that are only applicable to materials with specific …

Circularly polarized luminescence in chiral orientationally ordered soft matter systems

J Liu, ZP Song, LY Sun, BX Li, YQ Lu… - Responsive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Circularly polarized luminescent (CPL) materials have received significant attention in the
field of fundamental science recently. These materials offer substantial advancement of …

Geometric filterless photodetectors for mid-infrared spin light

J Wei, Y Chen, Y Li, W Li, J **e, C Lee… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Free-space circularly polarized light (CPL) detection, requiring polarizers and wave plates,
is well established, but such a spatial degree of freedom is unfortunately absent in …

Arbitrarily polarized bound states in the continuum with twisted photonic crystal slabs

H Qin, Z Su, M Liu, Y Zeng, MC Tang, M Li… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Arbitrary polarized vortex beam induced by polarization singularity offers a new platform for
both classical optics and quantum entanglement applications. Bound states in the …

Compact spin-valley-locked perovskite emission

Y Chen, J Feng, Y Huang, W Chen, R Su, S Ghosh… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Circularly polarized light sources with free-space directional emission play a key role in
chiroptics, spintronics, valleytronics and asymmetric photocatalysis. However, conventional …

Robust generation of intrinsic C points with magneto-optical bound states in the continuum

W Lv, H Qin, Z Su, C Zhang, J Huang, Y Shi, B Li… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
C points, circular polarization in momentum space, play crucial roles in chiral wave
manipulations. However, conventional approaches of achieving intrinsic C points using …