Exploring van der Waals materials with high anisotropy: geometrical and optical approaches.

Autor: Slavich AS; Moscow Center for Advanced Studies, Kulakova str. 20, Moscow, 123592, Russia., Ermolaev GA; Emerging Technologies Research Center, XPANCEO, Internet City, Emmay Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates., Tatmyshevskiy MK; Moscow Center for Advanced Studies, Kulakova str. 20, Moscow, 123592, Russia., Toksumakov AN; Moscow Center for Advanced Studies, Kulakova str. 20, Moscow, 123592, Russia., Matveeva OG; Moscow Center for Advanced Studies, Kulakova str. 20, Moscow, 123592, Russia., Grudinin DV; Emerging Technologies Research Center, XPANCEO, Internet City, Emmay Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates., Voronin KV; Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Donostia/San-Sebastián, 20018, Spain., Mazitov A; Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland., Kravtsov KV; Moscow Center for Advanced Studies, Kulakova str. 20, Moscow, 123592, Russia., Syuy AV; Emerging Technologies Research Center, XPANCEO, Internet City, Emmay Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates., Tsymbarenko DM; Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia., Mironov MS; Emerging Technologies Research Center, XPANCEO, Internet City, Emmay Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates., Novikov SM; Moscow Center for Advanced Studies, Kulakova str. 20, Moscow, 123592, Russia., Kruglov I; Emerging Technologies Research Center, XPANCEO, Internet City, Emmay Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates., Ghazaryan DA; Moscow Center for Advanced Studies, Kulakova str. 20, Moscow, 123592, Russia.; Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, 0025, Armenia., Vyshnevyy AA; Emerging Technologies Research Center, XPANCEO, Internet City, Emmay Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates., Arsenin AV; Emerging Technologies Research Center, XPANCEO, Internet City, Emmay Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.; Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, 0025, Armenia., Volkov VS; Emerging Technologies Research Center, XPANCEO, Internet City, Emmay Tower, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.; Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, 0025, Armenia., Novoselov KS; National Graphene Institute (NGI), University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. kostya@nus.edu.sg.; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 03-09 EA, Singapore. kostya@nus.edu.sg.; Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials, National University of Singapore, 117544, Singapore, Singapore. kostya@nus.edu.sg.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Light, science & applications [Light Sci Appl] 2024 Mar 08; Vol. 13 (1), pp. 68. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Mar 08.
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-024-01407-3
Abstrakt: The emergence of van der Waals (vdW) materials resulted in the discovery of their high optical, mechanical, and electronic anisotropic properties, immediately enabling countless novel phenomena and applications. Such success inspired an intensive search for the highest possible anisotropic properties among vdW materials. Furthermore, the identification of the most promising among the huge family of vdW materials is a challenging quest requiring innovative approaches. Here, we suggest an easy-to-use method for such a survey based on the crystallographic geometrical perspective of vdW materials followed by their optical characterization. Using our approach, we found As 2 S 3 as a highly anisotropic vdW material. It demonstrates high in-plane optical anisotropy that is ~20% larger than for rutile and over two times as large as calcite, high refractive index, and transparency in the visible range, overcoming the century-long record set by rutile. Given these benefits, As 2 S 3 opens a pathway towards next-generation nanophotonics as demonstrated by an ultrathin true zero-order quarter-wave plate that combines classical and the Fabry-Pérot optical phase accumulations. Hence, our approach provides an effective and easy-to-use method to find vdW materials with the utmost anisotropic properties.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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