Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials

Y Wu, J Duan, W Ma, Q Ou, P Li… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Polaritons, originating from the interactions between photons and material excitations, have
attracted attention because of their strong field compression and deeply subdiffractional …

Optical refractive index sensors with plasmonic and photonic structures: promising and inconvenient truth

Y Xu, P Bai, X Zhou, Y Akimov, CE Png… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Optical sensors are widely used for refractive index measurement in chemical, biomedical,
and food processing industries. Due to specific field distribution of the resonances, optical …

Carbon‐based photothermal actuators

B Han, YL Zhang, QD Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Actuators that can convert environmental stimuli into mechanical work are widely used in
intelligent systems, robots, and micromechanics. To produce robust and sensitive actuators …

Modern scattering‐type scanning near‐field optical microscopy for advanced material research

X Chen, D Hu, R Mescall, G You, DN Basov… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Infrared and optical spectroscopy represents one of the most informative methods in
advanced materials research. As an important branch of modern optical techniques that has …

[HTML][HTML] Graphene nanoribbons: Current status and challenges as quasi-one-dimensional nanomaterials

C Tian, W Miao, L Zhao, J Wang - Reviews in Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
The electronic structure of quasi-one-dimensional graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) is closely
related to their width, boundary configuration and heteroatomic doping because of the …

2D III‐Nitride Materials: Properties, Growth, and Applications

J Ben, X Liu, C Wang, Y Zhang, Z Shi, Y Jia… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D III‐nitride materials have been receiving considerable attention recently due to
their excellent physicochemical properties, such as high stability, wide and tunable …

Edge-oriented and steerable hyperbolic polaritons in anisotropic van der Waals nanocavities

Z Dai, G Hu, G Si, Q Ou, Q Zhang, S Balendhran… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Highly confined and low-loss polaritons are known to propagate isotropically over graphene
and hexagonal boron nitride in the plane, leaving limited degrees of freedom in …

[HTML][HTML] Graphene plasmon for optoelectronics

L Cui, J Wang, M Sun - Reviews in Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) can achieve light transmission beyond the diffraction
limit due to their special dispersion relationship. As a novel two-dimensional material …

A review on the development of tunable graphene nanoantennas for terahertz optoelectronic and plasmonic applications

Z Ullah, G Witjaksono, I Nawi, N Tansu, M Irfan Khattak… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Exceptional advancement has been made in the development of graphene optical
nanoantennas. They are incorporated with optoelectronic devices for plasmonics application …

Sculpting nanoparticle dynamics for single-bacteria-level screening and direct binding-efficiency measurement

YZ Shi, S Xiong, Y Zhang, LK Chin, YY Chen… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Particle trapping and binding in optical potential wells provide a versatile platform for various
biomedical applications. However, implementation systems to study multi-particle contact …