Extreme nanophotonics from ultrathin metallic gaps

JJ Baumberg, J Aizpurua, MH Mikkelsen, DR Smith - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Ultrathin dielectric gaps between metals can trap plasmonic optical modes with surprisingly
low loss and with volumes below 1 nm3. We review the origin and subtle properties of these …

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 …

Atomic defects in two‐dimensional materials: From single‐atom spectroscopy to functionalities in opto‐/electronics, nanomagnetism, and catalysis

J Hong, C Jin, J Yuan, Z Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Two‐dimensional layered graphene‐like crystals including transition‐metal dichalcogenides
(TMDs) have received extensive research interest due to their diverse electronic …

Minimizing residues and strain in 2D materials transferred from PDMS

A Jain, P Bharadwaj, S Heeg, M Parzefall… - …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Integrating layered two-dimensional (2D) materials into 3D heterostructures offers
opportunities for novel material functionalities and applications in electronics and photonics …

Boron nitride nanostructures: fabrication, functionalization and applications

J Yin, J Li, Y Hang, J Yu, G Tai, X Li, Z Zhang, W Guo - Small, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Boron nitride (BN) structures are featured by their excellent thermal and chemical stability
and unique electronic and optical properties. However, the lack of controlled synthesis of …

Synthesis of hexagonal boron nitride heterostructures for 2D van der Waals electronics

KK Kim, HS Lee, YH Lee - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Among two dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) layered materials such as graphene,
which is used like a metal, and transition metal chalcogenides (TMdCs), which are used as …

Electrically-driven Yagi-Uda antennas for light

R Kullock, M Ochs, P Grimm, M Emmerling… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Yagi-Uda antennas are a key technology for efficiently transmitting information from point to
point using radio waves. Since higher frequencies allow higher bandwidths and smaller …

Highly efficient on-chip direct electronic–plasmonic transducers

W Du, T Wang, HS Chu, CA Nijhuis - Nature Photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Photonic elements can carry information with a capacity exceeding 1,000 times that of
electronic components, but, due to the optical diffraction limit, these elements are large and …

Plasmonic metamaterials for nanochemistry and sensing

P Wang, ME Nasir, AV Krasavin… - Accounts of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Plasmonic nanostructures were initially developed for sensing and
nanophotonic applications but, recently, have shown great promise in chemistry …

Efficient light generation from enhanced inelastic electron tunnelling

H Qian, SW Hsu, K Gurunatha, CT Riley, J Zhao… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Light emission from biased tunnel junctions has recently gained much attention owing to its
unique potential to create ultracompact optical sources with terahertz modulation …