The growing maturity of nanofabrication has ushered massive sophisticated optical
structures available on a photonic chip. The integration of subwavelength-structured …

Nanowires supporting propagating surface plasmons can function as nanowaveguides to
realize the light guiding with field confinement beyond the diffraction limit, providing …

The research on emerging layered two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, such as
molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), reveals unique optical properties generating significant …

Plasmonics has developed for decades in the field of condensed matter physics and optics.
Based on the classical Maxwell theory, collective excitations exhibit profound light‐matter …

Among two dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) layered materials such as graphene,
which is used like a metal, and transition metal chalcogenides (TMdCs), which are used as …

Monolayer 2H-phase MoS2-based photodetectors exhibit high photon absorption but suffer
from low photoresponse, which severely limits their applications in optoelectronic fields. The …

Nanolasers, with small footprint and ultralow threshold, are promising for applications in
data communication, on‐chip optical computing, and optical interconnects. In addition to the …

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) monolayer as one of the atomic thickness two-dimensional
materials has remarkable electronic and optical properties, which is an ideal candidate for a …

Transition metal dichalcogenides are two-dimensional semiconductors with strong in-plane
covalent and weak out-of-plane interactions, resulting in exfoliation into monolayers with …

One of the unique features of atomically thin two-dimensional materials is strong Coulomb
interactions due to the reduced dielectric screening effect; this feature enables the study of …