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The moir\'e pattern, which emerges due to a relative rotation between two monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides, features a long lattice period for small twist angles. The resulting band structure modulation acts as an effective…
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Metasurfaces offer a powerful platform for effective light manipulation, which is crucial for advanced optical technologies. While designs of polarization-independent structures have reduced the need for polarized illumination, they are…
Scalable quantum technologies demand long-range interactions between many distant quantum emitters (QEs). We introduce non-local metasurfaces supporting bound-states-in-the-continuum (BICs) as a promising platform to achieve this goal. We…
The collective interactions of nanoparticles arranged in periodic structures give rise to high-$Q$ in-plane diffractive modes known as surface lattice resonances. While these resonances and their broader implications have been extensively…