Roadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials
Abstract
Triggered by the development of exfoliation and the identification of a wide range of extraordinary physical properties in self-standing films consisting of one or few atomic layers, two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), and other van der Waals (vdW) crystals currently constitute a wide research field protruding in multiple directions in combination with layer stacking and twisting, nanofabrication, surface-science methods, and integration into nanostructured environments. Photonics encompasses a multidisciplinary collection of those directions, where 2D materials contribute with polaritons of unique characteristics such as strong spatial confinement, large optical-field enhancement, long lifetimes, high sensitivity to external stimuli (e.g., electric and magnetic fields, heating, and strain), a broad spectral range from the far infrared to the ultraviolet, and hybridization with spin and momentum textures of electronic band structures. The explosion of photonics with 2D materials as a vibrant research area is producing breakthroughs, including the discovery and design of new materials and metasurfaces with unprecedented properties as well as applications in integrated photonics, light emission, optical sensing, and exciting prospects for applications in quantum information, and nanoscale thermal transport. This Roadmap summarizes the state of the art in the field, identifies challenges and opportunities, and discusses future goals and how to meet them through a wide collection of topical sections prepared by leading practitioners.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2504.04558,
title = {Roadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials},
author = {F. Javier García de Abajo and D. N. Basov and Frank H. L. Koppens and Lorenzo Orsini and Matteo Ceccanti and Sebastián Castilla and Lorenzo Cavicchi and Marco Polini and P. A. D. Gonçalves and A. T. Costa and N. M. R. Peres and N. Asger Mortensen and Sathwik Bharadwaj and Zubin Jacob and P. J. Schuck and A. N. Pasupathy and Milan Delor and M. K. Liu and Aitor Mugarza and Pablo Merino and Marc G. Cuxart and Emigdio Chávez-Angel and Martin Svec and Luiz H. G. Tizei and Florian Dirnberger and Hui Deng and Christian Schneider and Vinod Menon and Thorsten Deilmann and Alexey Chernikov and Kristian S. Thygesen and Yohannes Abate and Mauricio Terrones and Vinod K. Sangwan and Mark C. Hersam and Leo Yu and Xueqi Chen and Tony F. Heinz and Puneet Murthy and Martin Kroner and Tomasz Smolenski and Deepankur Thureja and Thibault Chervy and Armando Genco and Chiara Trovatello and Giulio Cerullo and Stefano Dal Conte and Daniel Timmer and Antonietta De Sio and Christoph Lienau and Nianze Shang and Hao Hong and Kaihui Liu and Zhipei Sun and Lee A. Rozema and Philip Walther and Andrea Alù and Michele Cotrufo and Raquel Queiroz and X. -Y. Zhu and Joel D. Cox and Eduardo J. C. Dias and Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri and Fadil Iyikanat and Andrea Marini and Paul Herrmann and Nele Tornow and Sebastian Klimmer and Jan Wilhelm and Giancarlo Soavi and Zeyuan Sun and Shiwei Wu and Ying Xiong and Oles Matsyshyn and Roshan Krishna Kumar and Justin C. W. Song and Tomer Bucher and Alexey Gorlach and Shai Tsesses and Ido Kaminer and Julian Schwab and Florian Mangold and Harald Giessen and M. Sánchez Sánchez and D. K. Efetov and T. Low and G. Gómez-Santos and T. Stauber and Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez and Jiahua Duan and Luis Martín-Moreno and Alexander Paarmann and Joshua D. Caldwell and Alexey Y. Nikitin and Pablo Alonso-González and Niclas S. Mueller and Valentyn Volkov and Deep Jariwala and Timur Shegai and Jorik van de Groep and Alexandra Boltasseva and Igor V. Bondarev and Vladimir M. Shalaev and Jeffrey Simon and Colton Fruhling and Guangzhen Shen and Dino Novko and Shijing Tan and Bing Wang and Hrvoje Petek and Vahagn Mkhitaryan and Renwen Yu and Alejandro Manjavacas and J. Enrique Ortega and Xu Cheng and Ruijuan Tian and Dong Mao and Dries Van Thourhout and Xuetao Gan and Qing Dai and Aaron Sternbach and You Zhou and Mohammad Hafezi and Dmitrii Litvinov and Magdalena Grzeszczyk and Kostya S. Novoselov and Maciej Koperski and Sotirios Papadopoulos and Lukas Novotny and Leonardo Viti and Miriam Serena Vitiello and Nathan D. Cottam and Benjamin T. Dewes and Oleg Makarovsky and Amalia Patanè and Yihao Song and Mingyang Cai and Jiazhen Chen and Doron Naveh and Houk Jang and Suji Park and Fengnian Xia and Philipp K. Jenke and Josip Bajo and Benjamin Braun and Kenneth S. Burch and Liuyan Zhao and Xiaodong Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.04558},
year = {2025}
}
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199 pages, 42 figures, 1154 references