A hidden advantage of van der Waals materials for overcoming limitations in photonic integrated circuitry

Andrey A. Vyshnevyy, Georgy A. Ermolaev, Dmitriy V. Grudinin +11

With the advance of on-chip nanophotonics, there is a high demand for high refractive index, low-loss materials. Currently, this technology is dominated by silicon, but van der Waa…