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 …

Carbon nanotube devices for quantum technology

A Baydin, F Tay, J Fan, M Manjappa, W Gao, J Kono - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Carbon nanotubes, quintessentially one-dimensional quantum objects, possess a variety of
electrical, optical, and mechanical properties that are suited for develo** devices that …

Tunable anisotropic van der Waals films of 2M-WS2 for plasmon canalization

Q **ng, J Zhang, Y Fang, C Song, T Zhao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In-plane anisotropic van der Waals materials have emerged as a natural platform for
anisotropic polaritons. Extreme anisotropic polaritons with in-situ broadband tunability are of …

Controlling thermal emission with metasurfaces and its applications

Q Chu, F Zhong, X Shang, Y Zhang, S Zhu, H Liu - Nanophotonics, 2024 - degruyter.com
Thermal emission caused by the thermal motion of the charged particles is commonly
broadband, un-polarized, and incoherent, like a melting pot of electromagnetic waves, which …

Tunable hyperbolic metamaterials based on self-assembled carbon nanotubes

JA Roberts, SJ Yu, PH Ho, S Schoeche, AL Falk… - Nano Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
We show that packed, horizontally aligned films of single-walled carbon nanotubes are
hyperbolic metamaterials with ultrasubwavelength unit cells and dynamic tunability. Using …

Optical properties and polaritons of low symmetry 2D materials

S Huang, C Wang, Y **e, B Yu, H Yan - Photonics Insights, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Low symmetry 2D materials with intrinsic in-plane anisotropic optical properties and high
tunability provide a promising platform to explore and manipulate light–matter interactions …

High-Speed Modulation of Polarized Thermal Radiation from an On-Chip Aligned Carbon Nanotube Film

S Matano, N Komatsu, Y Shimura, J Kono, H Maki - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Spectroscopic analysis with polarized light has been widely used to investigate molecular
structure and material behavior. A broadband polarized light source that can be switched on …

Near-Unity Light–Matter Interaction in Mid-Infrared van der Waals Metasurfaces

H Ling, M Nourbakhsh, VR Whiteside, JG Tischler… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Accessing mid-infrared radiation is of great importance for a range of applications, including
thermal imaging, sensing, and radiative cooling. Here, we study light interaction with …

Terahertz excitonics in carbon nanotubes: exciton autoionization and multiplication

FRG Bagsican, M Wais, N Komatsu, W Gao… - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Excitons play major roles in optical processes in modern semiconductors, such as single-
wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs), transition metal dichalcogenides, and 2D perovskite …

Confinement-induced nonlocality and casimir force in transdimensional systems

IV Bondarev, MD Pugh, P Rodriguez-Lopez… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We study within the framework of the Lifshitz theory the long-range Casimir force for in-plane
isotropic and anisotropic free-standing transdimensional material slabs. In the former case …