Photonics with hexagonal boron nitride

JD Caldwell, I Aharonovich, G Cassabois… - Nature Reviews …, 2019‏ - nature.com
For more than seven decades, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been employed as an
inert, thermally stable engineering ceramic; since 2010, it has also been used as the optimal …

Plasmon-enhanced light–matter interactions and applications

H Yu, Y Peng, Y Yang, ZY Li - npj Computational Materials, 2019‏ - nature.com
Surface plasmons are coherent and collective electron oscillations confined at the dielectric–
metal interface. Benefitting from the inherent subwavelength nature of spatial profile, surface …

Superscattering emerging from the physics of bound states in the continuum

A Canós Valero, HK Shamkhi, AS Kupriianov… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
We study the Mie-like scattering from an open subwavelength resonator made of a high-
index dielectric material, when its parameters are tuned to the regime of interfering …

[HTML][HTML] Hyperbolic metamaterials: From dispersion manipulation to applications

Z Guo, H Jiang, H Chen - Journal of Applied Physics, 2020‏ - pubs.aip.org
Manipulating the properties of the isofrequency contours (IFCs) of materials provides a
powerful means of controlling the interaction between light and matter. Hyperbolic …

Anomalies in light scattering

A Krasnok, D Baranov, H Li, MA Miri… - Advances in Optics …, 2019‏ - opg.optica.org
The scattering of electromagnetic waves lies at the heart of most experimental techniques
over nearly the entire electromagnetic spectrum, ranging from radio waves to optics and x …

A perspective on the next generation of invisibility cloaks—Intelligent cloaks

C Qian, H Chen - Applied Physics Letters, 2021‏ - pubs.aip.org
Invisibility has been a long-standing topic, owing to its crucial importance in both academia
and industry. At the close of the last century, the advent of metamaterials unprecedentedly …

Experimental observation of superscattering

C Qian, X Lin, Y Yang, X **ong, H Wang, E Li… - Physical review …, 2019‏ - APS
Superscattering, induced by degenerate resonances, breaks the fundamental single-
channel limit of the scattering cross section of subwavelength structures; in principle, an …

[HTML][HTML] A review on metamaterials for device applications

N Suresh Kumar, KCB Naidu, P Banerjee, T Anil Babu… - Crystals, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Metamaterials are the major type of artificially engineered materials which exhibit naturally
unobtainable properties according to how their microarchitectures are engineered. Owing to …

Zero-index and hyperbolic metacavities: fundamentals and applications

Z Guo, H Jiang, H Chen - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
As a basic building block, optical resonant cavities (ORCs) are widely used in light
manipulation. They can confine electromagnetic waves and improve the interaction between …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances of transition radiation: Fundamentals and applications

R Chen, Z Gong, J Chen, X Zhang, X Zhu… - Materials Today …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Transition radiation is a fundamental process of light emission and occurs whenever a
charged particle moves across an inhomogeneous region. One feature of transition radiation …