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The ability to perfectly guide surface electromagnetic waves around ultra-sharp corners without back-scattering and radiation is in great demand for various photonic and plasmonic applications. This is fundamentally difficult to realize…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-12 Zhen Gao , Baile Zhang

Two-dimensional multi-layer materials with an induced moir\'e pattern, either due to strain or relative twist between layers, provide a versatile platform for exploring strongly correlated and topological electronic phenomena. While these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-27 Mohammed M. Al Ezzi , Albert Zhu , Daniel Bennett , Daniel T. Larson , Efthimios Kaxiras

Control of the electromagnetic waves in nano-scale structured materials is central to the development of next generation photonic circuits and devices. In this context, hyperbolic metamaterials, where elliptical isofrequency surfaces are…

Twistronics, the manipulation of Moir\'e superlattices via the twisting of two layers of two-dimensional (2D) materials to control diverse and nontrivial properties, has recently revolutionized the condensed matter and materials physics.…

Metamaterials are a new generation of advanced materials, exhibiting engineered microstructures that enable customized material properties not found in nature. The dynamics of metamaterials are particularly fascinating, promising the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Charles Dorn , Vignesh Kannan , Ute Drechsler , Dennis M. Kochmann

Advances in material architectures have enabled endowing materials with exotic attributes not commonly available in the conventional realm of mechanical engineering. Twisting, a mechanism whereby metamaterials are used to transform static…

Phosphorene, an emerging elemental two-dimensional (2D) direct band gap semiconductor with fascinating structural and electronic properties distinctively different from other 2D materials such as graphene and MoS2, is promising for novel…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-21 Yongqing Cai , Qingqing Ke , Gang Zhang , Yuan Ping Feng , Vivek B Shenoy , Yong-Wei Zhang

Hyperbolic metamaterials show exceptional optical properties, such as near-perfect broadband absorption, due to their geometrically-engineered optical anisotropy. Many of their proposed applications, such as thermophotovoltaics or radiative…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-10 Jose L. Ocana-Pujol , Lea Forster , Ralph Spolenak , Henning Galinski

Transverse spin angular momentum is an inherent feature of evanescent waves which may have applications in nanoscale optomechanics, spintronics, and quantum information technology due to the robust spin-directional coupling. Here we analyze…

Asymmetric transmission of circularly polarized waves is a well-established property of lossy, anisotropic, two-dimensionally chiral patterns. Here we show that asymmetric transmission can be observed for oblique incidence onto any lossy…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-18 E. Plum , V. A. Fedotov , N. I. Zheludev

One fundamental motivation to know the dispersive, or frequency dependent characteristics of localized surface plasmons (LSPs) supported by elliptical shaped particles wrapped with graphene sheet, as well as their scattering characteristics…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-24 Mauro Cuevas , Ricardo A. Depine

Metamaterials with the transformation method has greatly promoted the development in achieving invisibility and illusion for various classical waves. However, the requirement of tailor-made bulk materials and extreme constitutive parameters…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Yongquan Liu , Zixian Liang , Fu Liu , Owen Diba , Alistair Lamb , Jensen Li

Optical metasurfaces consist of a 2D arrangement of scatterers, and they control the amplitude, phase, and polarization of an incidence field on demand. Optical metasurfaces are the cornerstone for a future generation of flat optical…

The dynamic toroidal dipole is a unique radiation source beyond standard multipoles. Since its first demonstration 15 years ago, it has attracted growing theoretical and experimental interest. Research mainly aims to enhance its weak…

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…

In recent years, metasurfaces composed of lumped circuit components, including nonlinear Schottky diodes, have been reported to be capable of sensing particular electromagnetic waves even at the same frequency depending on their waveforms,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Tomoyuki Nakasha , Sendy Phang , Hiroki Wakatsuchi

We propose a nonlinear acoustic metasurface concept by exploiting the nonlinearity of the locally resonant unit cells formed by curved beams. The analytical model is established to explore the nonlinear phenomenon, specifically the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Zhenkun Lin , Yuning Zhang , K. W. Wang , Serife Tol

We show that asymmetric transmission for linear polarizations can be easily achieved by a monolayer of anisotropic chiral metamolecules through the constructive and destructive interferences between the contributions from anisotropy and…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Shuang Zhang , Fu Liu , Thomas Zentgraf , Jensen Li

Harnessing electronic excitations involving coherent coupling to bosonic modes is essential for the design and control of emergent phenomena in quantum materials [1]. In situations where charge carriers induce a lattice distortion due to…

Nonlinear metasurfaces are multifunctional photonic elements that generate and control light, enabling multiple proof-of-principle applications, such as in nonlinear holography, beam shaping, and nanoscale sources of entangled photon pairs.…