Two-Dimensional Material Nanophotonics

Abstract

The emerging two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit a wide range of electronic properties, ranging from insulating hexagonal boron nitride, semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides such as molybdenum disulfide, to semi-metallic graphene. Here, we first review the optical properties and applications of a variety of 2D materials, followed by two different approaches to enhance their interactions with light: through their integration with external photonic structures and through their intrinsic polaritonic resonances. Finally, we cover a narrow bandgap layered material, black phosphorus, which serendipitously bridges the zero gap graphene and the relatively large-bandgap TMDCs. The plethora of 2D materials and their heterostructures, together with the approaches for enhancing light-matter interaction offers the promise of scientific discoveries and nanophotonics technologies across a wide range of electromagnetic spectrum.

23 pages, 6 figures, Nature Photonics, in press

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Cited by in corpus (7)

• The Renaissance of Black Phosphorus
• Waveguide-integrated black phosphorus photodetector with high responsivity and low dark current
• Helicity resolved Raman scattering of MoS2, MoSe2, WS2 and WSe2 atomic layers
• Observation of Low-frequency Interlayer Breathing Modes in Few-layer Black Phosphorus
• Dynamical Evolution of Anisotropic Response in Black Phosphorus under Ultrafast Photoexcitation
• Electrical control of near-field energy transfer between quantum dots and 2D semiconductors
• Graphene plasmonics for light trapping and absorption engineering