Applications of bound states in the continuum in photonics

M Kang, T Liu, CT Chan, M **ao - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted attention in photonics owing to their
interesting properties. For example, BICs can effectively confine light in a counterintuitive …

Dielectric‐based metamaterials for near‐perfect light absorption

BX Wang, X Qin, G Duan, G Yang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of metamaterials and their continued prosperity have built a powerful
working platform for accurately manipulating the behavior of electromagnetic waves …

The rise and current status of polaritonic photochemistry and photophysics

R Bhuyan, J Mony, O Kotov, GW Castellanos… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The interaction between molecular electronic transitions and electromagnetic fields can be
enlarged to the point where distinct hybrid light–matter states, polaritons, emerge. The …

Intrinsic strong light-matter coupling with self-hybridized bound states in the continuum in van der Waals metasurfaces

T Weber, L Kühner, L Sortino, A Ben Mhenni… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs) provide a standout platform for strong light-
matter coupling with transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) but have so far mostly been …

Photonics of time-varying media

E Galiffi, R Tirole, S Yin, H Li, S Vezzoli… - Advanced …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Time-varying media have recently emerged as a new paradigm for wave manipulation, due
to the synergy between the discovery of highly nonlinear materials, such as epsilon-near …

Optical metasurfaces for energy conversion

E Cortés, FJ Wendisch, L Sortino, A Mancini… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Optical constants of several multilayer transition metal dichalcogenides measured by spectroscopic ellipsometry in the 300–1700 nm range: high index, anisotropy …

B Munkhbat, P Wróbel, TJ Antosiewicz… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) attract significant attention due to their remarkable
optical and excitonic properties. It was understood already in the 1960s and recently …

Quo vadis, metasurfaces?

CW Qiu, T Zhang, G Hu, Y Kivshar - Nano letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
The full manipulation of intrinsic properties of electromagnetic waves has become the
central target in various modern optical technologies. Optical metasurfaces have been …

Imaging with metamaterials

WJ Padilla, RD Averitt - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Metamaterials enable precise tailoring of light–matter interactions at the subwavelength
scale, permitting access to the full range of electromagnetic responses encoded in Maxwell's …

2D layered materials: synthesis, nonlinear optical properties, and device applications

B Guo, Q **ao, S Wang, H Zhang - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, 2D layered materials, including graphene, topological insulators, transition
metal dichalcogenides, black phosphorus, MXenes, graphitic carbon nitride, and metal …