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Bound states in the continuum (BICs), with the ability of trapping and manipulating waves within the radiation continuum, have gained significant attention for their potential applications in optics and acoustics. However, challenges arise…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-03 Shunda Yin , Zhenyu Wang , Liping Ye , Hailong He , Manzhu Ke , Weiyin Deng , Jiuyang Lu , Zhengyou Liu

Bound state in the continuum (BIC) is a mathematical concept with an infinite radiative quality factor (Q) that exists only in an ideal infinite array. It was first proposed in quantum mechanics, and extended to general wave phenomena such…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-17 Longqing Cong , Ranjan Singh

The concept of optical bound states in the continuum (BICs) underpins the existence of strongly localized waves embedded into the radiation spectrum that can enhance the electromagnetic fields in subwavelength photonic structures. Early…

Bound states in the continuum (BIC) holds significant promise in manipulating electromagnetic fields and reducing losses in optical structures, leading to advancements in both fundamental research and practical applications. Despite their…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-04 Shuai Liu , Bo-Han Wu , Jeffrey Huang , Zheshen Zhang

The physics of bound states in the continuum (BICs) allows to design and demonstrate optical resonant structures with large values of the quality factor ($Q$-factor) by employing dielectric structures with low losses. However, BIC is a…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-23 Yao Liang , Din Ping Tsai , Yuri Kivshar

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) in a periodic structure sandwiched between two homogeneous media have interesting properties and useful applications in photonics. The topological nature of BICs was previously revealed based on a…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-28 Amgad Abdrabou , Ya Yan Lu

The photonic bound state in the continuum (BIC) is discovered in a hybrid photonic circuit with low refractive index waveguide on a high refractive index thin membrane, where the optical dissipation is forbidden because of the destructive…

Flat-band bound states in the continuum (BICs) are topological states with suppressed group velocity and robustness against radiation loss, offering a powerful platform for the exploration of non-Hermitian, nonlinear, topological phenomena…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-26 Fuhuan Shen , Jiahao Ren , Zhiyi Yuan , Kai Wu , Sai Yan , Kunal Parasad , Hai Son Nguyen , Rui Su

Ordered lattices of emitters with subwavelength periodicities support unconventional forms of light-matter interactions arising from collective effects. Here, we propose the realization and control of subradiant optical states within the…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-28 Paloma A. Huidobro , Maria Blanco de Paz

Bound states in the continuum (BIC) have been studied mainly in optics. Recently, electronic BIC have been proposed. They appear as points in the momentum space and are protected topologically by the Chern number. In this study, we propose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Manabu Takeichi , Shuichi Murakami

Recent advancements in photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs) have opened up exciting new possibilities for the design of optoelectronic devices with improved performance. In this perspective article, we provide an overview of recent…

We show that lattices with higher-order topology can support corner-localized bound states in the continuum (BICs). We propose a method for the direct identification of BICs in condensed matter settings and use it to demonstrate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-06 Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Alexander Cerjan

The realization of lossless metasurfaces with true chirality crucially requires the fabrication of three-dimensional structures, constraining their feasibility for experiments and hampering practical implementations. Even though the…

We investigate the diffraction of guided modes of a dielectric slab waveguide on a simple integrated structure consisting of a single dielectric ridge on the surface of the waveguide. Numerical simulations based on aperiodic rigorous…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-05 Evgeni A. Bezus , Dmitry A. Bykov , Leonid L. Doskolovich

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have exhibited extraordinary properties in photonics for enhanced light-matter interactions that enable appealing applications in nonlinear optics, biosensors, and ultrafast optical switches. The most…

Photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs) are special localized and non-decaying states of a photonic system with a frequency embedded into the spectrum of scattered states. The simplest photonic structure displaying a single BIC is…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-05 Stefano Longhi

The question of how to continuously manipulate a photonic system between a radiating state and a bound state is an important challenge in photonics, as its solution promises broad technological relevance for optical sensors, modulators,…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Andreas Henkel , Maik Meudt , Maximilian Buchmüller , Patrick Görrn

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted significant interest in recent years due to their unique optical properties, such as infinite quality factor and wave localization. In order to improve the optical performance of BICs…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-17 Fengyuan Zhang , Qiongqiong Chu , Qiang Wang , Shining Zhu , Hui Liu

Photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs) are a standout nanophotonic platform for strong light-matter coupling with transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), but have so far mostly been employed as all-dielectric metasurfaces with…

We consider the diffraction of time-harmonic plane waves by a periodic structure, governed by the Helmholtz equation. Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are quasi-periodic fields that remain $L^{2}$-bounded over one period and occur at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ya Yan Lu , Jiaxin Zhou