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yperbolic polaritons in van der Waals materials recently attract a lot of attention, owing to their strong electromagnetic field confinement, ultraslow group velocities and long lifetimes. Typically, volume confined hyperbolic polaritons…

Polar van der Waals (vdW) crystals that support phonon polaritons have recently attracted much attention because they can confine infrared and terahertz (THz) light to deeply subwavelength dimensions, allowing for the guiding and…

Recent discoveries have shown that when two layers of van der Waals (vdW) materials are superimposed with a relative twist angle between their respective in-plane principal axes, the electronic properties of the coupled system can be…

Negative reflection occurs when light is reflected towards the same side of the normal to the boundary from which it is incident. This exotic optical phenomenon, which provides a new avenue towards light manipulation, is not only yet to be…

We investigated emission and propagation of polaritons in a two dimensional van der Waals material hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Our specific emphasis in this work is on hyperbolic phonon polariton emission that we investigated by means of…

Hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs) sustained in van der Waals (vdW) materials exhibit extraordinary capabilities of confining long-wave electromagnetic fields to the deep subwavelength scale. In stark contrast to the uniaxial vdW…

Hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPPs) are coupled oscillations of anisotropic lattice vibrations and electromagnetic fields that confine the latter to the nanoscale, enabling novel nano-polaritonic devices. While HPPs have been identified in…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-15 H. Shiravi , W. Zheng , D. A. Rhodes , L. Balicas , H. D. Zhou , G. X. Ni

Negative reflection and negative refraction are exotic phenomena that can be achieved by platforms such as double-negative metamaterial, hyperbolic metamaterial, and phase-discontinuity metasurface. Recently, natural biaxial van der Waals…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-27 Tan Zhang , Chunqi Zheng , Zhi Ning Chen , Cheng-Wei Qiu

Twisted two-dimensional bi-layers offer exquisite control on the electronic bandstructure through the interlayer rotation and coupling, enabling magic-angle flat-band superconductivity and moir\'e excitons. Here, we demonstrate how…

The field of 2D materials-based nanophotonics has been growing at a rapid pace, triggered by the ability to design nanophotonic systems with in situ control, unprecedented degrees of freedom, and to build material heterostructures from…

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,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-22 F. Javier García de Abajo , D. N. Basov , Frank H. L. Koppens , Lorenzo Orsini , Matteo Ceccanti , Sebastián Castilla , Lorenzo Cavicchi , Marco Polini , P. A. D. Gonçalves , A. T. Costa , N. M. R. Peres , N. Asger Mortensen , Sathwik Bharadwaj , Zubin Jacob , P. J. Schuck , A. N. Pasupathy , Milan Delor , M. K. Liu , Aitor Mugarza , Pablo Merino , Marc G. Cuxart , Emigdio Chávez-Angel , Martin Svec , Luiz H. G. Tizei , Florian Dirnberger , Hui Deng , Christian Schneider , Vinod Menon , Thorsten Deilmann , Alexey Chernikov , Kristian S. Thygesen , Yohannes Abate , Mauricio Terrones , Vinod K. Sangwan , Mark C. Hersam , Leo Yu , Xueqi Chen , Tony F. Heinz , Puneet Murthy , Martin Kroner , Tomasz Smolenski , Deepankur Thureja , Thibault Chervy , Armando Genco , Chiara Trovatello , Giulio Cerullo , Stefano Dal Conte , Daniel Timmer , Antonietta De Sio , Christoph Lienau , Nianze Shang , Hao Hong , Kaihui Liu , Zhipei Sun , Lee A. Rozema , Philip Walther , Andrea Alù , Michele Cotrufo , Raquel Queiroz , X. -Y. Zhu , Joel D. Cox , Eduardo J. C. Dias , Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri , Fadil Iyikanat , Andrea Marini , Paul Herrmann , Nele Tornow , Sebastian Klimmer , Jan Wilhelm , Giancarlo Soavi , Zeyuan Sun , Shiwei Wu , Ying Xiong , Oles Matsyshyn , Roshan Krishna Kumar , Justin C. W. Song , Tomer Bucher , Alexey Gorlach , Shai Tsesses , Ido Kaminer , Julian Schwab , Florian Mangold , Harald Giessen , M. Sánchez Sánchez , D. K. Efetov , T. Low , G. Gómez-Santos , T. Stauber , Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez , Jiahua Duan , Luis Martín-Moreno , Alexander Paarmann , Joshua D. Caldwell , Alexey Y. Nikitin , Pablo Alonso-González , Niclas S. Mueller , Valentyn Volkov , Deep Jariwala , Timur Shegai , Jorik van de Groep , Alexandra Boltasseva , Igor V. Bondarev , Vladimir M. Shalaev , Jeffrey Simon , Colton Fruhling , Guangzhen Shen , Dino Novko , Shijing Tan , Bing Wang , Hrvoje Petek , Vahagn Mkhitaryan , Renwen Yu , Alejandro Manjavacas , J. Enrique Ortega , Xu Cheng , Ruijuan Tian , Dong Mao , Dries Van Thourhout , Xuetao Gan , Qing Dai , Aaron Sternbach , You Zhou , Mohammad Hafezi , Dmitrii Litvinov , Magdalena Grzeszczyk , Kostya S. Novoselov , Maciej Koperski , Sotirios Papadopoulos , Lukas Novotny , Leonardo Viti , Miriam Serena Vitiello , Nathan D. Cottam , Benjamin T. Dewes , Oleg Makarovsky , Amalia Patanè , Yihao Song , Mingyang Cai , Jiazhen Chen , Doron Naveh , Houk Jang , Suji Park , Fengnian Xia , Philipp K. Jenke , Josip Bajo , Benjamin Braun , Kenneth S. Burch , Liuyan Zhao , Xiaodong Xu

Van der Waals (vdW) crystals offer unique opportunities for modern nanophotonic applications owing to their intrinsic anisotropic nature. While most of them exhibit uniaxial anisotropy arising from weak out-of-plane vdW interaction, some of…

Anisotropic van der Waals (vdW) materials exhibit direction-dependent optical and electronic properties, making them valuable for tailoring directional light-matter interactions. Rhenium disulfide (ReS$_2$) stands out for its strong…

Anisotropic van der Waals materials provide a powerful platform for nanoscale optoelectronics, enabling strong light$-$matter interaction and deep electromagnetic field confinement mediated by polaritons, hybrid light$-$matter excitations…

The integration of two-dimensional (2D) materials with photonic structures has catalyzed a wide spectrum of optical and optoelectronic applications. Conventional nanophotonic structures generally lack efficient reconfigurability and…

Anisotropic crystals have recently attracted considerable attention because of their ability to support polaritons with a variety of unique properties, such as hyperbolic dispersion, negative phase velocity, or extreme confinement.…

Optical metasurfaces have great potential to form the platform for manipulation of surface waves. A plethora of advanced surface-wave phenomena utilizing negative refraction, self-collimation and channeling of 2D waves can be realized…

Controlling light at the nanoscale by exploiting ultra-confined polaritons - hybrid light and matter waves - in various van der Waals (vdW) materials empowers unique opportunities for many nanophotonic on-chip technologies. So far,…

Polaritons travelling along a hyperbolic medium's surface have recently sparked significant interest in nanophotonics for the unprecedented manipulation ability on light at the nanoscale in a planar way, promising potential nano-optical…

Polaritons are a hybrid class of quasiparticles originating from the strong and resonant coupling between light and matter excitations. Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in novel polariton types, arising from directional,…