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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Science and technology roadmap for graphene, related two-dimensional crystals, and hybrid systems

AC Ferrari, F Bonaccorso, V Fal'Ko, KS Novoselov… - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We present the science and technology roadmap for graphene, related two-dimensional
crystals, and hybrid systems, targeting an evolution in technology, that might lead to impacts …

Two-dimensional material nanophotonics

F **a, H Wang, D **ao, M Dubey… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Two-dimensional materials exhibit diverse electronic properties, ranging from insulating
hexagonal boron nitride and semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides such as …

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 …

Phase-change materials for non-volatile photonic applications

M Wuttig, H Bhaskaran, T Taubner - Nature photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Phase-change materials (PCMs) provide a unique combination of properties. On
transformation from the amorphous to crystalline state, their optical properties change …

Ultralight, ultrastiff mechanical metamaterials

X Zheng, H Lee, TH Weisgraber, M Shusteff, J DeOtte… - Science, 2014 - science.org
The mechanical properties of ordinary materials degrade substantially with reduced density
because their structural elements bend under applied load. We report a class of …

Polaritons in layered two-dimensional materials

T Low, A Chaves, JD Caldwell, A Kumar, NX Fang… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
In recent years, enhanced light–matter interactions through a plethora of dipole-type
polaritonic excitations have been observed in two-dimensional (2D) layered materials. In …

Efficient organic solar cell with 16.88% efficiency enabled by refined acceptor crystallization and morphology with improved charge transfer and transport properties

L Zhu, M Zhang, G Zhou, T Hao, J Xu… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐layered organic solar cells (OSCs) using nonfullerene acceptors have reached 16%
efficiency. Such a breakthrough has inspired new sparks for the development of the next …

Multifunctional terahertz device with active switching between bimodal perfect absorption and plasmon-induced transparency

T Liu, Y Liu, L Ling, Z Sheng, Z Yi, Z Zhou… - Materials Research …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a terahertz (THz) micronano device that can actively switch
between bimodal absorption and plasmon-induced transparency (PIT). The device mainly …