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most citedGiant optical anisotropy in transition metal dichalcogenides for next-generation photonics

329 citations · 613 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

physics.optics2026

Dark Optical Trapping of Resonant Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Particles

Patrick Illetschek, Gleb Fedorovich, Albert Seredin +6

Mitigating recoil events and minimizing optically induced heating are central challenges in the precise control and cooling of macroscopic particles. To overcome this, we propose t…

physics.optics2025

Scalable van der Waals Photonics: High-Refractive-Index Gallium Sulfide Films with Single-Crystal Optical Properties

Aleksandr Slavich, Georgy Ermolaev, Dmitriy Grudinin +15

The integration of high-refractive-index dielectrics into scalable photonic architectures is foundational to advancing integrated circuits and augmented reality (AR) displays. Van…

physics.app-ph2025

Solvent-Directed Femtosecond Laser Ablation: Tuning Phase and Defect Engineering in Hybrid CdPS3/CdS Nanostructures

Andrei Ushkov, Nadezhda Belozerova, Gleb Tikhonowski +8

The limited visible-light absorption of wide-bandgap van der Waals crystals fundamentally restricts their utility in solar energy conversion. Here, we report a surfactant-free, sol…

physics.optics2025

Giant optical anisotropy and visible-frequency epsilon-near-zero in hyperbolic van der Waals MoOCl2

Georgy Ermolaev, Adilet Toksumakov, Aleksandr Slavich +13

The realization of extreme optical anisotropy is foundational to nanoscale light manipulation. Van der Waals (vdW) crystal MoOCl2 has emerged as a promising candidate for this ques…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Hyperbolic-enhanced Raman scattering in van der Waals MoOCl2: from Fano resonances to picomolar detection

Anton Minnekhanov, Gleb Tikhonowski, Georgy Ermolaev +13

Natural van der Waals (vdW) crystals with hyperbolic dispersion challenge artificial metamaterials but remain confined to the mid-infrared. The emergence of MoOCl2, a quasi-one-dim…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Record Index-Bandgap Trade-off: CdPS3 as a High-Index van der Waals Platform for Ultraviolet-Visible Nanophotonics

M. R. Povolotskiy, A. S. Slavich, G. A. Ermolaev +21

The development of nanophotonics is hindered by a fundamental trade-off between a material's refractive index (n) and its electronic bandgap (Eg), which severely restricts the choi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Giant optical anisotropy in CrSBr from giant exciton oscillator strength

Georgy Ermolaev, Tagir Mazitov, Arslan Mazitov +18

The interplay between dimensionality and electronic correlations in van der Waals (vdW) materials offers a powerful toolkit for engineering light-matter interactions at the nanosca…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Giant exciton binding energy in bulk CrCl3

Georgy Ermolaev, Tagir Mazitov, Anton Minnekhanov +20

Van der Waals (vdW) materials, with their unique combination of electronic, optical, and magnetic properties, are emerging as promising platforms for exploring excitonic phenomena.…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Computational discovery of high-refractive-index van der Waals materials: The case of HfS

Xavier Zambrana-Puyalto, Mark Kamper Svendsen, Amalie H. Søndersted +9

New high-refractive-index dielectric materials may enhance many optical technologies by enabling efficient manipulation of light in waveguides, metasurfaces, and nanoscale resonato…

physics.app-ph2024★ 14 cited

Tunable Nanostructuring for van der Waals Materials

Gleb Tselikov, Anton Minnekhanov, Georgy Ermolaev +19

Van der Waals (vdW) materials are becoming increasingly popular in scientific and industrial applications because of their unique mixture of record electronic, optical, and mechani…

physics.optics2024

Anisotropic van der Waals Crystal with High Refractive Index and Transparency for UV-Visible Range Applications

Aleksandr Slavich, Georgy Ermolaev, Ilya Zavidovskiy +20

Thanks to their record high refractive index and giant optical anisotropy, van der Waals (vdW) materials have accelerated the development of nanophotonics. However, traditional hig…

physics.optics2023★ 34 cited

Topological Darkness: How to Design a Metamaterial for Optical Biosensing with Virtually Unlimited Sensitivity

G. Tselikov, A. Danilov, V. O. Shipunova +3

Due to the absence of labels and fast analyses, optical biosensors promise major advances in biomedical diagnostics, security, environmental and food safety applications. However,…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Multiresonances of quasi-trapped modes in metasurfaces based on nanoparticles of transition metal dichalcogenides

M. Yu. Gubin, A. V. Shesterikov, V. S. Volkov +1

The features of polarization control of multiple multiresonances for quasi-trapped modes excited by synchronization of bianisotropic dipole responses in MoS disks with a hole a…

physics.app-ph2022★ 50 cited

Giant and tunable excitonic optical anisotropy in single-crystal CsPbX halide perovskites

G. A. Ermolaev, A. P. Pushkarev, A. Yu. Zhizhchenko +16

During the last years, giant optical anisotropy demonstrated its paramount importance for light manipulation which resulted in numerous applications ranging from subdiffraction lig…

physics.optics2021★ 70 cited

Transition metal dichalcogenide nanospheres for high-refractive-index nanophotonics and biomedical theranostics

G. I. Tselikov, G. A. Ermolaev, A. A. Popov +11

Recent developments in the area of resonant dielectric nanostructures has created attractive opportunities for the concentrating and manipulating light at the nanoscale and the est…

physics.optics2021★ 110 cited

Topological phase singularities in atomically thin high-refractive-index materials

Georgy Ermolaev, Kirill Voronin, Denis G. Baranov +15

Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) present a promising platform for numerous photonic applications due to excitonic spectral features, possibility to tune the…

physics.optics2021★ 1 cited

Nonlinear exciton-Mie coupling in transition metal dichalcogenides nanoresonators

Ilya M. Antropov, Anna A. Popkova, Gleb I. Tselikov +10

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is a layered material of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) with a high refractive index in the visible and infrared spectral range. Therefore, by…

physics.app-ph2020★ 329 cited

Giant optical anisotropy in transition metal dichalcogenides for next-generation photonics

G. A. Ermolaev, D. V. Grudinin, Y. V. Stebunov +17

Large optical anisotropy observed in a broad spectral range is of paramount importance for efficient light manipulation in countless devices. Although a giant anisotropy was recent…