Materials for chiral light control

J Crassous, MJ Fuchter, DE Freedman… - Nature Reviews …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Solution-processable semiconductors based on small molecules, polymers or halide
perovskites combine sustainable manufacturing with exceptional optoelectronic properties …

Topological phonons and thermoelectric conversion in crystalline materials

ZK Ding, YJ Zeng, W Liu, LM Tang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Topological phononics, a fascinating frontier in condensed matter physics, holds great
promise for advancing energy‐related applications. Topologically nontrivial phonons …

Phonon thermal transport and its tunability in GaN for near-junction thermal management of electronics: A review

DS Tang, BY Cao - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The heat dissipation issue has now become one of the most important bottlenecks for power
electronics due to the rapid increase in power density and working frequency. Towards the …

Observation of interplay between phonon chirality and electronic band topology

FGG Hernandez, A Baydin, S Chaudhary, F Tay… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
The recently demonstrated chiral modes of lattice motion carry angular momentum and
therefore directly couple to magnetic fields. Notably, their magnetic moments are predicted …

Topological phononics: from fundamental models to real materials

Y Liu, X Chen, Y Xu - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Effective manipulation of phonons is crucial to modern energy‐information science and
technologies but limited by the charge neutral and spinless nature of phonons. Recently …

Direct observation of topological phonons in graphene

J Li, J Li, J Tang, Z Tao, S Xue, J Liu, H Peng… - Physical Review Letters, 2023‏ - APS
Phonons, as the most fundamental emergent bosons in condensed matter systems, play an
essential role in the thermal, mechanical, and electronic properties of crystalline materials …

Emerging theory and phenomena in thermal conduction: a selective review

J Chen, J He, D Pan, X Wang, N Yang, J Zhu… - Science China Physics …, 2022‏ - Springer
Recently, emerging phonon phenomena have been discovered and rapidly developed,
which have become an active hot research topic. In this review article, we present state-of …

Experimental evidence of chiral symmetry breaking in Kekulé-ordered graphene

C Bao, H Zhang, T Zhang, X Wu, L Luo, S Zhou, Q Li… - Physical Review Letters, 2021‏ - APS
The low-energy excitations of graphene are relativistic massless Dirac fermions with
opposite chiralities at valleys K and K′. Breaking the chiral symmetry could lead to gap …

Computation and data driven discovery of topological phononic materials

J Li, J Liu, SA Baronett, M Liu, L Wang, R Li… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The discovery of topological quantum states marks a new chapter in both condensed matter
physics and materials sciences. By analogy to spin electronic system, topological concepts …

Edge states of topological acoustic phonons in graphene zigzag nanoribbons

ZK Ding, YJ Zeng, H Pan, N Luo, J Zeng, LM Tang… - Physical Review B, 2022‏ - APS
The tight-binding method is an effective way to study topological insulators. However, an
intrinsic element, ie, the acoustic sum rule (ASR) in phonon systems, has often been …