Van der Waals heterostructures

A Castellanos-Gomez, X Duan, Z Fei… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The integration of dissimilar materials into heterostructures has become a powerful tool for
engineering interfaces and electronic structure. The advent of 2D materials has provided …

Interface nano-optics with van der Waals polaritons

Q Zhang, G Hu, W Ma, P Li, A Krasnok, R Hillenbrand… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Polaritons are hybrid excitations of matter and photons. In recent years, polaritons in van der
Waals nanomaterials—known as van der Waals polaritons—have shown great promise to …

Electromagnetic absorber converting radiation for multifunction

M Zhang, MS Cao, JC Shu, WQ Cao, L Li… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Electromagnetic (EM) absorbers drive the development of EM technology and advanced EM
equipment. The utilization of EM energy conversion of the EM absorber to design a variety of …

Perspectives of 2D materials for optoelectronic integration

J An, X Zhao, Y Zhang, M Liu, J Yuan… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D materials show wide‐ranging physical properties with their electronic bandgaps
varying from zero to several electronvolts, offering a rich platform to explore novel electronic …

Nanoscale terahertz scanning probe microscopy

TL Cocker, V Jelic, R Hillenbrand, FA Hegmann - Nature Photonics, 2021 - nature.com
Terahertz radiation has become an important diagnostic tool in the development of new
technologies. However, the diffraction limit prevents terahertz radiation (λ≈ 0.01–3 mm) …

Efficient organic solar cell with 16.88% efficiency enabled by refined acceptor crystallization and morphology with improved charge transfer and transport properties

L Zhu, M Zhang, G Zhou, T Hao, J Xu… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐layered organic solar cells (OSCs) using nonfullerene acceptors have reached 16%
efficiency. Such a breakthrough has inspired new sparks for the development of the next …

Hyperbolic polaritonic crystals with configurable low-symmetry Bloch modes

J Lv, Y Wu, J Liu, Y Gong, G Si, G Hu, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Photonic crystals (PhCs) are a kind of artificial structures that can mold the flow of light at
will. Polaritonic crystals (PoCs) made from polaritonic media offer a promising route to …

Light–matter interactions in hybrid material metasurfaces

J Guan, JE Park, S Deng, MJH Tan, J Hu… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
This Review focuses on the integration of plasmonic and dielectric metasurfaces with
emissive or stimuli-responsive materials for manipulating light–matter interactions at the …

Thermal camouflaging metamaterials

R Hu, W Xi, Y Liu, K Tang, J Song, X Luo, J Wu… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermal camouflage technologies, which aim at blending the infrared (IR) signature of
targets into the background to counter the IR detection, have witnessed increasing …

Polariton panorama

DN Basov, A Asenjo-Garcia, PJ Schuck, X Zhu… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
In this brief review, we summarize and elaborate on some of the nomenclature of polaritonic
phenomena and systems as they appear in the literature on quantum materials and …