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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…

van der Waals stacking of two-dimensional (2D) materials offers a powerful platform for engineering material interfaces with tailored electronic and optical properties. While most van der Waals multilayers have featured inorganic…

Actively tunable nanophotonic platforms that control light-matter interactions enable reconfigurable optical systems and programmable photonic integrated circuits. Hydrostatic pressure provides a noninvasive and material-agnostic mechanism…

Large scale two-dimensional (2D) moir\'e superlattices are driving a revolution in designer quantum materials. The electronic interactions in these superlattices, strongly dependent on the periodicity and symmetry of the moir\'e pattern,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-26 M. Kögl , P. Soubelet , M. Brotons-Gisbert , A. V. Stier , B. D. Gerardot , J. J. Finley

Optical metasurfaces with high-Q chiral resonances can boost light-matter interaction for various applications of chiral response for ultrathin, active, and nonlinear metadevices. Usually, such metasurfaces require sophisticated…

Coupled split-ring-resonator metamaterials have previously been shown to exhibit large coupling effects, which are a prerequisite for obtaining large effective optical activity. By a suitable lateral arrangement of these building blocks, we…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Decker , R. Zhao , C. M. Soukoulis , S. Linden , M. Wegener

Moir\'e superlattices of van der Waals heterostructures provide a powerful new way to engineer the electronic structures of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Many novel quantum phenomena have emerged in different moir\'e heterostructures,…

Twisting two dissimilar monolayer semiconductors induces structural chirality that remains largely elusive in linear optics but becomes remarkably pronounced in the nonlinear regime. Here we demonstrate that MoS2/WSe2 heterobilayers exhibit…

Designing reconfigurable metasurfaces that can dynamically control scattered electromagnetic waves and work in the near-infrared (NIR) and optical regimes remains a challenging task, which is hindered by the static material property and…

The possibility of continuous tuning of the spectral properties of two types of planar metamaterials based on the moire effect by changing their geometric parameters is demonstrated both experimentally and numerically. It is shown that for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Sergey Yu. Polevoy , Sergey I. Tarapov

Quasi-periodic moir\'{e} patterns and their effect on electronic properties of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) have been intensely studied. At small twist angle $\theta$, due to atomic reconstruction, the moir\'e superlattice morphs into a…

We demonstrate that directional electromagnetic scattering can be realized from a artificial Mie resonant strcuture which supports electric and magnetic dipole modes simultaneously. The directivity of the far-field radiation pattern can be…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-15 Hong-Wei Wu , Hua-Jun Chen , Hua-Feng Xu , Yu Zhou , Dong-Xiang Qi , Yue-Ke Wang

Moir\'e superlattices in the twisted bilayer graphene provide an unprecedented platform to investigate a wide range of exotic quantum phenomena. Recently, the twist degree of freedom has been introduced into various classical wave systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Weixuan Zhang , Deyuan Zou , Qingsong Pei , Wenjing He , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Twisted heterostructures of two-dimensional crystals can create a moir\'{e} landscape, which can change the properties of it's parent crystals. However, the reproducibility of manual stacking is far from perfect. Here, the alternated…

Tunable metasurfaces enable active and on-demand control over optical wavefronts through reconfigurable scattering of resonant nanostructures. Here, we present novel insights inspired by mechanical metamaterials to achieve giant tunability…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-31 Freek van Gorp , Wenfeng Liu , Corentin Coulais , Jorik van de Groep

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can see deep inside the body without ionizing radiation, but image quality depends strongly on how well the radio-frequency field is controlled. Passive resonant pads and metasurfaces can help, yet they…

Controlling and channelling light emissions from unpolarized quantum dots into specific directions with chiral polarization remains a key challenge in modern photonics. Stacked metasurface designs offer a potential compact solution for…

Recent advances in the physics of resonant optical metasurfaces allowed to realize the so-called maximum chirality of planar structures by engineering their geometric parameters. Here we employ bilayer membrane metasurfaces with a square…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-25 Brijesh Kumar , Ivan Toftul , Anshuman Kumar , Maxim Gorkunov , Yuri Kivshar

With the rise of artificial magnetism and metamaterials, the toroidal family recently attracts more attention for its unique properties. Here we propose an all-dielectric pentamer metamolecule consisting of nano-cylinders with two toroidal…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-05 T. C. Huang , B. X. Wang , C. Y. Zhao

Subwavelength nanoparticles can support electromagnetic resonances with distinct features depending on their size, shape and nature. For example, electric and magnetic Mie resonances occur in dielectric particles, while plasmonic resonances…