Two-Dimensional Material Nanophotonics
Abstract
The emerging two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit a wide range of electronic properties, ranging from insulating hexagonal boron nitride, semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides such as molybdenum disulfide, to semi-metallic graphene. Here, we first review the optical properties and applications of a variety of 2D materials, followed by two different approaches to enhance their interactions with light: through their integration with external photonic structures and through their intrinsic polaritonic resonances. Finally, we cover a narrow bandgap layered material, black phosphorus, which serendipitously bridges the zero gap graphene and the relatively large-bandgap TMDCs. The plethora of 2D materials and their heterostructures, together with the approaches for enhancing light-matter interaction offers the promise of scientific discoveries and nanophotonics technologies across a wide range of electromagnetic spectrum.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1410.3882,
title = {Two-Dimensional Material Nanophotonics},
author = {Fengnian Xia and Han Wang and Di Xiao and Madan Dubey and Ashwin Ramasubramaniam},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.3882},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
23 pages, 6 figures, Nature Photonics, in press