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Ultraviolet Exciton-Polaritons in Silver Phenylthiolate
Bongjun Choi, Bonnie Chen, Thuc T. Mai +8
Ultraviolet (UV) exciton-polaritons (EPs) enable nonlinear optics, polaritonic lasing, and polariton-mediated photochemistry in the short-wavelength regime, yet progress has been l…
Understanding Optical Anisotropy in Multilayer γ-InSe and ε-GaSe
Jason Lynch, Zexuan Liu, Sergiy Krylyuk +3
Low-dimensional media have exhibited optical anisotropy that is unachievable in traditional 3D media due to the asymmetry of their strong, in-plane covalent bonds and weak out-of-p…
Self-Hybridized Exciton-Polariton Photodetectors From Layered Metal-Organic Chalcogenolates
Bongjun Choi, Adam D. Alfieri, Wangleong Chen +1
Exciton-polaritons (EPs) arising from strong light-matter coupling offer new pathways for controlling optoelectronic properties. While typically requiring closed optical cavities f…
Reconfigurable, non-volatile control of optical anisotropy in ReS2 via ferroelectric gating
Mahfujur Rahaman, Seunguk Song, Aaliyah C. Khan +8
Electrically tunable linear dichroism (LD) with non-volatile properties represents a critical yet elusive feature for next-generation integrated photonic elements in practical devi…
Experimental demonstration of corrugated nanolaminate films as reflective light sails
Matthew F. Campbell, Pawan Kumar, Jason Lynch +11
Achieving laser-driven, reflective, relativistic light sails would represent a tremendous breakthrough for humankind, allowing us to advance our understanding of the solar system a…
High-Temperature-Resilient Hyperbolicity in a Mixed-Dimensional Superlattice
Jason Lynch, Tzu-Yu Peng, Jing-Wei Yang +7
Hyperbolic superlattices are used for sub-wavelength focusing, cloaking, and optical thermal management. Typically, these superlattices are constructed of layers of noble metals an…
> 2π Phase Modulation using Exciton-Polaritons in a Two-Dimensional Superlattice
Jason Lynch, Pawan Kumar, Chen Chen +7
Active metamaterials promise to enable arbitrary, temporal control over the propagation of wavefronts of light for applications such as beam steering, optical communication modulat…
Broadband Light Harvesting from Scalable Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Heterostructures
Da Lin, Jason Lynch, Sudong Wang +9
Broadband absorption in the visible spectrum is essential in optoelectronic applications that involve power conversion such as photovoltaics and photocatalysis. Most ultrathin broa…
Effects of Self-Hybridized Exciton-Polaritons on WS2 Photovoltaics
Adam D. Alfieri, Tobia Ruth, Cheryl Lim +2
Excitonic semiconductors such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are attractive for next-generation photovoltaics (PVs) with low cost, light weight, and low material consu…
Tandem Photovoltaics from 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides on Silicon
Zekun Hu, Sudong Wang, Jason Lynch +1
The demand for high-efficiency photovoltaic systems necessitates innovations that transcend the efficiency limitations of single-junction solar cells. This study investigates a tan…
Giant Optical Anisotropy in 2D Metal-Organic Chalcogenates
Bongjun Choi, Kiyoung Jo, Mahfujur Rahaman +6
Optical anisotropy is a fundamental attribute of some crystalline materials and is quantified via birefringence. A birefringent crystal not only gives rise to asymmetrical light pr…
Highly tunable room-temperature plexcitons in monolayer WSe2 /gap-plasmon nanocavities
Thomas P. Darlington, Mahfujur Rahaman, Kevin W. C. Kwock +16
The advancement of quantum photonic technologies relies on the ability to precisely control the degrees of freedom of optically active states. Here, we realize real-time, room-temp…
Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling in 2D Metal-Chalcogenates
Surendra B. Anantharaman, Jason Lynch, Mariya Aleksich +10
Hybridization of excitons with photons to form hybrid quasiparticles, exciton-polaritons (EPs), has been widely investigated in a range of semiconductor material systems coupled to…
Gate-Tunable Optical Anisotropy in Wafer-Scale, Aligned Carbon-Nanotube Films
Jason Lynch, Evan Smith, Adam Alfieri +10
Telecommunications and polarimetry both require the active control of the polarization of light, Currently, this is done by combining intrinsically anisotropic materials with tunab…
Ultra-compact plexcitonic electro-absorption modulator
Ruoyu Yuan, Jason Lynch, Deep Jariwala
Compact electro-optic (EO) modulators with large extinction ratios, low-switching energies, and high operation speeds are desirable for integrated photonic and linear optical compu…
Advances in ultrafast plasmonics
Alemayehu Nana Koya, Marco Romanelli, Joel Kuttruff +22
In the past twenty years, we have reached a broad understanding of many light-driven phenomena in nanoscale systems. The temporal dynamics of the excited states are instead quite c…
Ultrathin Broadband Metasurface Superabsorbers from a van der Waals Semimetal
Adam D. Alfieri, Michael J. Motala, Michael Snure +8
Metamaterials and metasurfaces operating in the visible and near-infrared (NIR) offer a promising route towards next-generation photodetectors and devices for solar energy harvesti…
Direct Nano-Imaging of Light-Matter Interactions in Nanoscale Excitonic Emitters
Kiyoung Jo, Emanuele Marino, Jason Lynch +8
Strong light-matter interactions in localized nano-emitters when placed near metallic mirrors have been widely reported via spectroscopic studies in the optical far-field. Here, we…
Tutorial: Exciton resonances for atomically-thin optics
Jason Lynch, Ludovica Guarneri, Deep Jariwala +1
Metasurfaces enable flat optical elements by leveraging optical resonances in metallic or dielectric nanoparticles to obtain accurate control over the amplitude and phase of the sc…
Cavity-Enhanced Linear Dichroism in a van der Waals Antiferromagnet
Huiqin Zhang, Zhuoliang Ni, Aofeng Bai +3
Optical birefringence is a fundamental optical property of crystals widely used for filtering and beam splitting of photons. Birefringent crystals concurrently possess the property…
Self-Hybridized Polaritonic Emission from Layered Perovskites
Surendra B. Anantharaman, Christopher E. Stevens, Jason Lynch +9
Light-matter coupling in excitonic materials has been the subject of intense investigation due to emergence of new excitonic materials. Two-dimensional layered hybrid organic/inorg…
Giant gate-tunability of complex refractive index in semiconducting carbon nanotubes
Baokun Song, Fang Liu, Haonan Wang +11
Electrically-tunable optical properties in materials are desirable for many applications ranging from displays to lasing and optical communication. In most two-dimensional thin-fil…
Van der Waals Materials for Atomically-Thin Photovoltaics: Promise and Outlook
Deep Jariwala, Artur R. Davoyan, Joeson Wong +1
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors provide a unique opportunity for optoelectronics due to their layered atomic structure, electronic and optical properties. To date, a majority o…