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most citedObservation of topological polaritons and photonic magic angles in twisted van der Waals bi-layers

708 citations

25 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Designer three-dimensional electronic bands in asymmetric transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures

Oliver J. Clark, Anugrah Azhar, Ben A. Chambers +15

Van der Waals materials enable the construction of atomically sharp interfaces between compounds with distinct crystal and electronic properties. This is dramatically exploited in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Improving the Accuracy of Temperature Measurement on TEM samples using Plasmon Energy Expansion Thermometry (PEET): Addressing Sample Thickness Effects

Yi-Chieh Yang, Luca Serafin, Nicolas Gauquelin +2

Advances in analytical scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and microelectronic mechanical systems (MEMS) based microheaters have enabled in-situ materials characteriza…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 3 cited

Reactivity of ultra-thin Kagome Metal FeSn towards Oxygen and Water

James Blyth, Sadhana Sridhar, Mengting Zhao +9

The kagome metal FeSn, consists of alternating layers of kagome-lattice Fe3Sn and honeycomb Sn2, and exhibits great potential for applications in future low energy electronics and…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Floquet engineering in the presence of optically excited carriers

Mitchell A. Conway, Jonathan O. Tollerud, Thi-Hai-Yen Vu +5

Floquet engineering provides an optical means to manipulate electronic bandstructures, however, carriers excited by the pump field can lead to an effective heating, and can obscure…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 8 cited

Effects of Floquet Engineering on the Coherent Exciton Dynamics in Monolayer WS

Mitchell A. Conway, Stuart K. Earl, Jack B. Muir +7

Coherent optical manipulation of electronic bandstructures via Floquet Engineering is a promising means to control quantum systems on an ultrafast timescale. However, the ultrafast…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 11 cited

Imaging the breakdown and restoration of topological protection in magnetic topological insulator MnBiTe

Qile Li, Iolanda Di Bernardo, Johnathon Maniatis +9

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators transport charge without resistance along topologically protected chiral one-dimensional edge states. Yet, in magnetic topological insulator…

physics.optics2020★ 708 cited

Observation of topological polaritons and photonic magic angles in twisted van der Waals bi-layers

Guangwei Hu, Qingdong Ou, Guangyuan Si +9

Twisted two-dimensional bi-layers offer exquisite control on the electronic bandstructure through the interlayer rotation and coupling, enabling magic-angle flat-band superconducti…

physics.optics2019★ 20 cited

The role of surface depletion layer effects on the enhancement of the UV emission in ZnO induced by a nanostructured Al surface coating

Saskia Fiedler, Laurent O. Lee Cheong Lem, Cuong Ton-That +1

The UV enhancement of Al-coated ZnO single crystals with a wide range of carrier densities is systematically studied using depth-resolved cathodoluminescence (CL) and photoluminesc…

physics.optics2019★ 2 cited

Polarization effect and emission control in asymmetric cross-shaped slot antennas surrounded with periodic corrugations

Amir Djalalian-Assl

I discuss progress in the development of asymmetric cross-shaped plasmonic antennas based on resonant nanoscale apertures surrounded by surface corrugations. By tailoring the apert…

physics.optics2019★ 13 cited

Surface Plasmon Wave plates

Amir Djalalian-Assl

Here I investigate both numerically and experimentally, the polarization conversion capabilities of a rectangular array of holes with two unequal orthogonal periodicities. We show…

physics.app-ph2019★ 4 cited

Correlated emission of X-ray and sound from water film irradiated by femtosecond laser pulses

Hsin-hui Huang, Saulius Juodkazis, Koji Hatanaka

Simultaneous measurements of hard X-ray by a Geiger counter and audible sound (10 Hz-20kHz) by a microphone from a thin water film in air were carried out under intense single and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 24 cited

Paracetamol Micro-Structure Analysis by Optical Mapping

Reo Honda, Meguya Ryu, Armandas Balcytis +4

Domain structure of paracetamol -- popular antipyretic analgesic -- was investigated by infrared (IR) spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation. Absorbance and retardance maps revea…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 173 cited

Radiation tolerance of two-dimensional material-based devices for space applications

Tobias Vogl, Kabilan Sripathy, Ankur Sharma +9

Characteristic for devices based on two-dimensional materials are their low size, weight and power requirements. This makes them advantageous for use in space instrumentation, incl…

physics.comp-ph2018★ 9 cited

GDoeSII: Open source software for design of diffractive optical elements and conversion to GDSII lithography files

Raghu Dharmavarapu, Shanti Bhattacharya, Saulius Juodkazis

We develop an open source software "GDoeSII" for the simulation of Fresnel (near field) and Fraunhofer (far field) diffraction integrals of diffractive optical elements (DOE). It c…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 3 cited

Micro-thermocouple on nano-membrane: thermometer for nanoscale measurements

Armandas Balcytis, Meguya Ryu, Saulius Juodkazis +1

A thermocouple of Au-Ni with only 2.5-micrometers-wide electrodes on a 30-nm-thick Si3N4 membrane was fabricated by a simple low-resolution electron beam lithography and lift off p…

physics.app-ph2017

Nanoscale chemical mapping of laser-solubilized silk

Meguya Ryu, Hanae Kobayashi, Armandas Balcytis +8

A water soluble amorphous form of silk was made by ultra-short laser pulse irradiation and detected by nanoscale IR mapping. An optical absorption-induced nanoscale surface expansi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 11 cited

Photoacoustic signal enhancements from gold nano-colloidal suspensions excited by a pair of time-delayed femtosecond pulses

Frances Camille P. Masim, Wei-Hung Hsu, Hao-Li Liu +4

Photoacoustic signal enhancements were observed with a pair of time-delayed femtosecond pulses upon excitation of gold nanosphere colloidal suspension. A systematic experimental in…

physics.atom-ph2017★ 12 cited

Trapping ultracold atoms at 100 nm from a chip surface in a 0.7-micrometer-period magnetic lattice

Yibo Wang, Tien Tran, Prince Surendran +6

We report the trapping of ultracold 87Rb atoms in a 0.7 micron-period 2D triangular magnetic lattice on an atom chip. The magnetic lattice is created by a lithographically patterne…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 60 cited

Laser-induced Translative Hydrodynamic Mass Snapshots: mapping at nanoscale

X. W. Wang, A. A. Kuchmizhak, X. Li +9

Nanoscale thermally assisted hydrodynamic melt perturbations induced by ultrafast laser energy deposition in noble-metal films produce irreversible nanoscale translative mass redis…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 21 cited

Dynamics and control of gold-encapped gallium arsenide nanowires imaged by 4D electron microscopy

Bin Chen, Xuewen Fu, Jau Tang +4

Eutectic related reaction is a special chemical/physical reaction involving multiple phases, solid and liquid. Visualization of phase reaction of composite nanomaterials with high…

physics.optics2016★ 62 cited

Dielectric geometric phase optical elements from femtosecond direct laser writing

Xuewen Wang, Aleksandr Kuchmizhak, Etienne Brasselet +1

We propose to use femtosecond direct laser writing technique to realize dielectric optical elements from photo-resist materials for the generation of structured light from purely g…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 76 cited

Au-Ag-Cu nano-alloys: tailoring of permittivity

Yoshikazu Hashimoto, Gediminas Seniutinas, Armandas Balcytis +2

Precious metal alloys enables new possibilities to tailor materials for specific optical functions. Here we present a systematic study of the effects of a nanoscale alloying on the…

physics.optics2016★ 99 cited

Nanoscale precision of 3D polymerisation via polarisation control

Sima Rekstyte, Tomas Jonavicius, Darius Gailevicius +4

A systematic analysis of polarization effects in a direct write femtosecond laser 3D lithography is presented. It is newly shown that coupling between linear polarization of the wr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 95 cited

Pauli Spin Blockade of Heavy Holes in a Silicon Double Quantum Dot

R. Li, F. E. Hudson, A. S. Dzurak +1

In this work, we study hole transport in a planar silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor based double quantum dot. We demonstrate Pauli spin blockade in the few hole regime and map the…