Moiré photonics and optoelectronics

L Du, MR Molas, Z Huang, G Zhang, F Wang, Z Sun - Science, 2023 - science.org
Moiré superlattices, the artificial quantum materials, have provided a wide range of
possibilities for the exploration of completely new physics and device architectures. In this …

Photocurrent as a multiphysics diagnostic of quantum materials

Q Ma, R Krishna Kumar, SY Xu, FHL Koppens… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The photoexcitation life cycle from incident photon (and creation of photoexcited electron–
hole pair) to ultimate extraction of electrical current is a complex multiphysics process …

Hierarchically encapsulating enzymes with multi-shelled metal-organic frameworks for tandem biocatalytic reactions

T Man, C Xu, XY Liu, D Li, CK Tsung, H Pei… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Biocatalytic transformations in living organisms, such as multi-enzyme catalytic cascades,
proceed in different cellular membrane-compartmentalized organelles with high efficiency …

Multiple and spectrally robust photonic magic angles in reconfigurable α-MoO3 trilayers

J Duan, G Álvarez-Pérez, C Lanza, K Voronin… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
The emergence of a topological transition of the polaritonic dispersion in twisted bilayers of
anisotropic van der Waals materials at a given twist angle—the photonic magic angle …

Polaritons in van der Waals heterostructures

X Guo, W Lyu, T Chen, Y Luo, C Wu, B Yang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D monolayers supporting a wide variety of highly confined plasmons, phonon
polaritons, and exciton polaritons can be vertically stacked in van der Waals …

Visualizing moiré ferroelectricity via plasmons and nano-photocurrent in graphene/twisted-WSe2 structures

S Zhang, Y Liu, Z Sun, X Chen, B Li, SL Moore… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ferroelectricity, a spontaneous and reversible electric polarization, is found in certain
classes of van der Waals (vdW) materials. The discovery of ferroelectricity in twisted vdW …

Mapping the intrinsic photocurrent streamlines through micromagnetic heterostructure devices

M Mayes, F Farahmand… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Photocurrent in quantum materials is often collected at global contacts far away from the
initial photoexcitation. This collection process is highly nonlocal. It involves an intricate …

A perspective of twisted photonic structures

J Chen, X Lin, M Chen, T Low, H Chen, S Dai - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Moiré superlattices—twisted van der Waals (vdW) structures with small angles—are
attracting increasing attention in condensed matter physics, due to important phenomena …

Studying 2D materials with advanced Raman spectroscopy: CARS, SRS and TERS

LM Malard, L Lafeta, RS Cunha, R Nadas… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Raman spectroscopy has been established as a valuable tool to study and characterize two-
dimensional (2D) systems, but it exhibits two drawbacks: a relatively weak signal response …

Infrared nano-imaging of Dirac magnetoexcitons in graphene

M Dapolito, M Tsuneto, W Zheng, L Wehmeier… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Magnetic fields can have profound effects on the motion of electrons in quantum materials.
Two-dimensional electron systems subject to strong magnetic fields are expected to exhibit …