Roadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials
- Author(s)
- , F. Javier García de Abajo, D. N. Basov, Frank H.L. Koppens, Lorenzo Orsini, Matteo Ceccanti, Sebastián Castilla, Lorenzo Cavicchi, Marco Polini, P. A.D. Gonçalves, A. T. Costa, N. M.R. Peres, N. Asger Mortensen, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Zubin Jacob, P. J. Schuck, A. N. Pasupathy, Milan Delor, M. K. Liu, Aitor Mugarza, Pablo Merino, Marc G. Cuxart, Emigdio Chávez-Angel, Martin Švec, Luiz H.G. Tizei, Florian Dirnberger, Hui Deng, Christian Schneider, Vinod Menon, Thorsten Deilmann, Alexey Chernikov, Kristian S. Thygesen, Yohannes Abate, Mauricio Terrones, Vinod K. Sangwan, Mark C. Hersam, Leo Yu, Xueqi Chen, Tony F. Heinz, Puneet Murthy, Martin Kroner, Tomasz Smolenski, Deepankur Thureja, Thibault Chervy, Armando Genco, Lee A. Rozema, Philip Walther, Lukas Novotny, Philipp K. Jenke, Josip Bajo, Benjamin Braun
- Abstract
Triggered by advances in atomic-layer exfoliation and growth techniques, along with the identification of a wide range of extraordinary physical properties in self-standing films consisting of one or a few atomic layers, two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), and other van der Waals (vdW) crystals now constitute a broad research field expanding in multiple directions through the combination of layer stacking and twisting, nanofabrication, surface-science methods, and integration into nanostructured environments. Photonics encompasses a multidisciplinary subset of those directions, where 2D materials contribute remarkable nonlinearities, long-lived and ultraconfined polaritons, strong excitons, topological and chiral effects, susceptibility to external stimuli, accessibility, robustness, and a completely new range of photonic materials based on layer stacking, gating, and the formation of moiré patterns. These properties are being leveraged to develop applications in electro-optical modulation, light emission and detection, imaging and metasurfaces, integrated optics, sensing, and quantum physics across a broad spectral range extending from the far-infrared to the ultraviolet, as well as enabling hybridization with spin and momentum textures of electronic band structures and magnetic degrees of freedom. The rapid expansion of photonics with 2D materials as a dynamic research arena is yielding breakthroughs, which this Roadmap summarizes while identifying challenges and opportunities for future goals and how to meet them through a wide collection of topical sections prepared by leading practitioners.
- Organisation(s)
- Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information, Research Network Quantum Aspects of Space Time
- External organisation(s)
- Barcelona Institute of Science & Technology, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Columbia University in the City of New York, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, University of Pisa, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Minho, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Purdue University, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Brookhaven National Laboratory, CSIC and BIST, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Czech Academy of Sciences, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Technische Universität München, University of Michigan, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, City University of New York, Universität Münster, Technische Universität Dresden, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), University of Georgia, Pennsylvania State University, Northwestern University, Stanford University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Universität Basel, Harvard University, NTT Research, Inc., Politecnico di Milano, Aalto University, Peking University
- Journal
- ACS Photonics
- Volume
- 12
- Pages
- 3961-4095
- No. of pages
- 135
- ISSN
- 2330-4022
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.04558
- Publication date
- 08-2025
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103018 Materials physics, 103021 Optics, 103026 Quantum optics
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biotechnology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/f1b506b0-01aa-409d-93b0-53e2033d289d