Photonics in Flatland: Challenges and Opportunities for Nanophotonics with 2D Semiconductors
Abstract
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are emerging as a versatile platform for nanophotonics, offering unprecedented tunability in optical properties through exciton resonance engineering, van der Waals heterostructuring, and external field control. These materials enable active optical modulation, single-photon emission, quantum photonics, and valleytronic functionalities, paving the way for next-generation optoelectronic and quantum photonic devices. However, key challenges remain in achieving large-area integration, maintaining excitonic coherence, and optimizing amplitude-phase modulation for efficient light manipulation. Advances in fabrication, strain engineering, and computational modelling will be crucial to overcoming these limitations. This perspective highlights recent progress in 2D semiconductor-based nanophotonics, emphasizing opportunities for scalable integration into photonics.
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@article{arxiv.2507.00336,
title = {Photonics in Flatland: Challenges and Opportunities for Nanophotonics with 2D Semiconductors},
author = {Ali Azimi and Julien Barrier and Angela Barreda and Thomas Bauer and Farzaneh Bouzari and Abel Brokkelkamp and Francesco Buatier de Mongeot and Timothy Parsons and Peter Christianen and Sonia Conesa-Boj and Alberto G. Curto and Suprova Das and Bernardo Dias and Itai Epstein and Zlata Fedorova and F. Javier García de Abajo and Ilya Goykhman and Lara Greten and Johanna Grönqvist and Ludovica Guarneri and Yujie Guo and Tom Hoekstra and Xuerong Hu and Benjamin Laudert and Jason Lynch and Sabrina Meyer and Battulga Munkhbat and Dragomir Neshev and Masha Ogienko and Sotirios Papadopoulos and Aparna Parappurath and Jeroen Sangers and Pedro Soubelet and Chris Soukaras and Giancarlo Soavi and Isabelle Staude and Zhipei Sun and Klaas-Jan Tielrooij and MD Gius Uddin and Alexey Ustinov and Jorik van de Groep and Jasper van Wezel and Nathalie Vermeulen and Hai Wang and Yadong Wang and Sanshui Xiao and Bingying You and Xavier Zambrana-Puyalto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.00336},
year = {2026}
}
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39 pages, 7 figures