Artificial flat band systems: from lattice models to experiments

D Leykam, A Andreanov, S Flach - Advances in Physics: X, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Certain lattice wave systems in translationally invariant settings have one or more spectral
bands that are strictly flat or independent of momentum in the tight binding approximation …

Engineered moiré photonic and phononic superlattices

M Oudich, X Kong, T Zhang, C Qiu, Y Jing - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Recent discoveries of Mott insulating and unconventional superconducting states in twisted
bilayer graphene with moiré superlattices have not only reshaped the landscape of …

Diffractive nonlocal metasurfaces

A Overvig, A Alù - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Metasurfaces are ushering in an era of multifunctional control over optical wavefronts
realized with ultrathin planarized devices. Recent advances have been enabling …

Extended bound states in the continuum with symmetry‐broken terahertz dielectric metasurfaces

S Han, P Pitchappa, W Wang… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Excitation of the non‐radiative eigenmodes in photonics and metamaterials above their light
cone, that is, the bound states in the continuum (BICs), has drawn fundamental and …

Leaky-wave metasurfaces for integrated photonics

H Huang, AC Overvig, Y Xu, SC Malek, CC Tsai… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metasurfaces have been rapidly advancing our command over the many degrees of
freedom of light; however, so far, they have been mostly limited to manipulating light in free …

Chiral quasi-bound states in the continuum

A Overvig, N Yu, A Alù - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Quasi-bound states in the continuum (QBICs) are Fano resonant states with long optical
lifetimes controlled by symmetry-breaking perturbations. While conventional Fano …

Dynamics of topological polarization singularity in momentum space

Y Zeng, G Hu, K Liu, Z Tang, CW Qiu - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The polarization singularity in momentum space has recently been discovered as a new
class of topological signatures of Bloch modes in photonic crystal slabs concerning the far …

Thermal metasurfaces: complete emission control by combining local and nonlocal light-matter interactions

AC Overvig, SA Mann, A Alù - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
Metasurfaces have been enabling the miniaturization and integration of complex optical
functionalities within an ultrathin platform by engineering the scattering features of localized …

Recent advances and perspective of photonic bound states in the continuum

G Xu, H Xing, Z Xue, D Lu, J Fan, J Fan, PP Shum… - Ultrafast …, 2023 - spj.science.org
Recent advancements in photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs) have opened up
exciting new possibilities for the design of optoelectronic devices with improved …

Multifunctional nonlocal metasurfaces

AC Overvig, SC Malek, N Yu - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Diffractive photonic devices manipulate light via local and nonlocal optical modes. Local
devices, such as metasurfaces, can shape a wave front at multiple selected wavelengths …