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Two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit a number of improved mechanical, optical, electronic properties compared to their bulk counterparts. The absence of dangling bonds in the cleaved surfaces of these materials allows combining different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Yu Kyoung Ryu , Riccardo Frisenda , Andres Castellanos-Gomez

The implementation of hyperbolic metamaterials as component in optical waveguides, semiconductor light emitters and solar cells has been limited by the inherent loss in the metallic layers. The features of a hyperbolic metamaterial arise by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Michael A. Mastro

Lateral superlattices in 2D materials are emerging as a powerful platform for exploring novel quantum phenomena, which can be realized through the proximity coupling in forming moir\'e pattern with another layer. This approach, however, is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Pei Zhao , Chengxin Xiao , Wang Yao

Hyperbolic superlattices are used for sub-wavelength focusing, cloaking, and optical thermal management. Typically, these superlattices are constructed of layers of noble metals and insulators. Despite these systems displaying excellent…

Despite being only a few atoms thick, single-layer two-dimensional (2D) materials display strong electron-photon interactions that could be utilized in efficient light modulators on extreme subwavelength scales. In various applications…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-21 Sunny Gupta , Sharmila N. Shirodkar , Alex Kutana , Boris I. Yakobson

Metamaterials are nano-engineered media with designed properties beyond those available in nature with applications in all aspects of materials science. In particular, metamaterials have shown promise for next generation of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Prashant Shekhar , Jonathan Atkinson , Zubin Jacob

The fabrication of flexible single-crystalline plasmonic or photonic components in a scalable way is fundamentally important to flexible electronic and photonic devices with high speed, high energy efficiency, and high reliability. However,…

Two-dimensional materials give access to the ultimate physical limits of Photonics with appealing properties for ultracompact optical components such as waveguides and modulators. Specifically, in monolayer semiconductors, a strong…

Recent progress in two-dimensional superconductors with atomic-scale thicknesses is reviewed mainly from the experimental point of view. The superconducting systems treated here involve a variety of materials and forms: elemental-metal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-17 Takashi Uchihashi

Heterostructure materials form the basis of much of modern electronics, from transistors to lasers and light-emitting diodes. Recent years have seen a renewed focus on creating heterostructures through the vertical integration of…

Hyperbolic materials are of particular interest for the next generation of photonic and optoelectronic devices. Since artificial metamaterials are intrinsically limited by the size of their nanostructured components, there has been a hunt…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-02 Saeideh Edalati-Boostan , Caterina Cocchi , Claudia Draxl

Natural hyperbolic materials offer a powerful platform for light-matter interactions by supporting highly anisotropic electromagnetic modes without the need for artificial patterning. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate that the…

Hyperbolic metamaterials were originally introduced to overcome the diffraction limit of optical imaging. Soon thereafter it was realized that hyperbolic metamaterials demonstrate a number of novel phenomena resulting from the broadband…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-27 Igor I. Smolyaninov

Hexagonal optical lattices offer a tunable platform to study exotic orbital physics in solid state materials. Here, we present a versatile high-precision scheme to implement a hexagonal optical lattice potential, which is engineered by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-07 Jin-Yu Liu , Guang-Quan Luo , Xiao-Qiong Wang , Andreas Hemmerich , Zhi-Fang Xu

The ability to manipulate two-dimensional (2D) electrons with external electric fields provides a route to synthetic band engineering. By imposing artificially designed and spatially periodic superlattice (SL) potentials, 2D electronic…

Hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs) are highly anisotropic optical materials that behave as metals or as dielectrics depending on the direction of propagation of light. They are becoming essential for a plethora of applications, ranging from…

Overlaying commensurate optical lattices with various configurations called superlattices can lead to exotic lattice topologies and, in turn, a discovery of novel physics. In this study, by overlapping the maxima of lattices, a new isolated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Xinhao Zou , Baoguo Yang , Xia Xu , Pengju Tang , Xiaoji Zhou

Silicon is the most popular material used in electronic devices. However, its poor optical properties owing to its indirect band gap nature limit its usage in optoelectronic devices. Here we present the discovery of super-stable…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-04-17 Young Jun Oh , In-Ho Lee , Sunghyun Kim , Jooyoung Lee , K. J. Chang

Semiconductor heterostructures that combine components with different dimensionality provide an interesting way to manipulate the physical properties of the resulting material. Two-dimensional lead halide perovskites crystallize as flat…

We propose an optical method of shining circularly polarized and spatially periodic laser fields to imprint superlattice structures in two-dimensional electronic systems. By changing the configuration of the optical field, we synthesize…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Hwanmun Kim , Hossein Dehghani , Hideo Aoki , Ivar Martin , Mohammad Hafezi
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