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Anisotropy of light-matter interactions in materials give remarkable information about the phonons and their interactions with electrons. We report the angle-resolved polarized Raman spectroscopy of single-crystal of Bi2Se3 to obtain the…
Transition metal dichalcogenide, especially MoS2 has attracted lot of attention recently owing to its tunable visible range band gap and anisotropic electronic and transport properties. Here, we report a comprehensive inelastic light…
Heterostructures based on two dimensional (2D) materials offer the possibility to achieve synergistic functionalities which otherwise remain secluded by their individual counterparts. Herein ferroelectric polarization switching in…
Polarimetric infrared detection bolsters IR thermography by leveraging the polarization of light. Optical anisotropy, i.e., birefringence and dichroism, can be leveraged to achieve polarimetric detection. Recently, giant optical anisotropy…
The interaction of polarized light with photonic crystals exhibit unique features due to its sub-wavelength nature on the surface and the periodic variation of refractive index in the depth of the crystals. Here, we present a detailed study…
Complex electron-microscopic, energy-dispersed and wide-temperature optical absorption and photoluminescence (PL) investigations are carried out into Bridgeman-grown layered In2Se3 crystals. It is shown that In2Se3 crystals as a whole have…
Recently, two-dimensional (2D) materials with strong in-plane anisotropic properties such as black phosphorus have demonstrated great potential for developing new devices that can take advantage of its reduced lattice symmetry with…
The group IV-VI compound SnSe, with an orthorhombic lattice structure, has recently attracted particular interest due to its unexpectedly low thermal conductivity and high power factor, showing great promise for thermoelectric applications.…
Two-dimensional materials with tunable in-plane anisotropic infrared response promise versatile applications in polarized photodetectors and field-effect transistors. Black phosphorus is a prominent example. However, it suffers from poor…
Anisotropy plays a key role in science and engineering. However, the interplay between the material and engineered photonic anisotropies has hardly been explored due to the vastly different length scales. Here we demonstrate a matter-light…
The capability to detect the polarization state of light is crucial in many day-life applications and scientific disciplines. Novel anisotropic two-dimensional materials such as TiS3 combine polarization sensitivity, given by the in-plane…
We study the scattering of electromagnetic waves in anisotropic energetic materials. Nonlinear light-matter interactions in molecular crystals result in frequency-conversion and polarization changes. Applied electromagnetic fields of…
The intensity dependence of anisotropic third-order optical nonlinearity approaching the damage threshold in ZnSe and GaP crystals is studied by the femtosecond laser pump-probe measurements, which can greatly reduce the laser-matter…
Antiferromagnetic (AFM) FePS3 has gained significant interest recently for its potential applications in spin-related devices. A single layer is comprised of a honeycomb network, stabilized by long-range spin-exchange interactions, with a…
We study the direction- and wavelength-dependent polarization anisotropy in light scattering at the air-photonic crystal interface as a function of angle of incidence for TE and TM polarized light. This is done using optical reflectivity…
In this work, we correlated the angular dependence of the Raman response of black phosphorus to its crystallographic orientation by using transmission electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy. It was found that the intensity of the A2g…
Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials, transition metal dichalcogenides and black phosphorus, have attracted much interest from the viewpoints of fundamental physics and device applications. The establishment of new functionalities in…
Recent experiments in ferromagnetic atomic-sized contacts have shown that the anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) is greatly enhanced and has an asymmetric angular dependence as compared with that of bulk samples. The origin of these…
The interplay among structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of Fe adatoms on the surface of two-dimensional ferroelectric {\alpha}-In$_2$Se$_3$ is investigated using first-principles electronic structure calculations, with a focus…
We investigate the polarization dependence of optical nonlinearity enhancement for a uniaxial anisotropic composite of metal nanocrystals in a dielectric host. Three cases are distinguished depending on whether the polarization is parallel,…