Feature issue introduction: Beyond Thin Films: Photonics with Ultrathin and Atomically Thin Materials

Stavroula Foteinopoulou, Nicolae C. Panoiu, Vladimir M. Shalaev, and Ganapathi S. Subramania

Opt. Mater. Express 9(5), 2427-2436 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Herding cats: managing gold atoms on common transparent dielectrics [Invited]

Adrianna Milewska, Arni S. Ingason, Olafur E. Sigurjonsson, and Kristjan Leosson

Opt. Mater. Express 9(1), 112-119 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Van der Waals materials integrated nanophotonic devices [Invited]

Chang-hua Liu, Jiajiu Zheng, Yueyang Chen, Taylor Fryett, and Arka Majumdar

Opt. Mater. Express 9(2), 384-399 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Graphene-based adaptive liquid-crystal microlens array for a wide infrared spectral region

Zhaowei Xin, Dong Wei, Mingce Chen, Chai Hu, Jian Li, Xinyu Zhang, Jing Liao, Haiwei Wang, and Changsheng Xie

Opt. Mater. Express 9(1), 183-194 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Dual broadband absorber based on graphene metamaterial in the terahertz range

Ning Hu, Fengling Wu, Li-an Bian, Hanqing Liu, and Peiguo Liu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(12), 3899-3909 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Tunable terahertz amplification based on photoexcited active graphene hyperbolic metamaterials [Invited]

Tianjing Guo, Liang Zhu, Pai-Yen Chen, and Christos Argyropoulos

Opt. Mater. Express 8(12), 3941-3952 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Electrodynamics of superlattices with ultra-thin metal layers: quantum Landau damping and band gaps with nonzero density of states

S. G. Castillo-López, A. A. Krokhin, N. M. Makarov, and F. Pérez-Rodríguez

Opt. Mater. Express 9(2), 673-686 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Tailoring the plasmonic properties of ultrathin TiN films at metal-dielectric interfaces [Invited]

Alessandra Catellani and Arrigo Calzolari

Opt. Mater. Express 9(3), 1459-1468 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Near-perfect absorption throughout the visible using ultra-thin metal films on index-near-zero substrates [Invited]

Lisa J. Krayer, Jongbum Kim, and Jeremy N. Munday

Opt. Mater. Express 9(1), 330-338 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Broadband saturable absorption and exciton-exciton annihilation in MoSe₂ composite thin films

Gaozhong Wang, Aidan A. Baker-Murray, Xiaoyan Zhang, Daniel Bennett, Jing Jing Wang, Jun Wang, Kangpeng Wang, and Werner J. Blau

Opt. Mater. Express 9(2), 483-496 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Interference in edge-scattering from monocrystalline gold flakes [Invited]

Sergejs Boroviks, Christian Wolff, Jes Linnet, Yuanqing Yang, Francesco Todisco, Alexander S. Roberts, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Bert Hecht, and N. Asger Mortensen

Opt. Mater. Express 8(12), 3688-3697 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Scalable honeycomb top contact to increase the light absorption and reduce the series resistance of thin film solar cells

Mehdi Sadatgol, Nupur Bihari, Joshua M. Pearce, and Durdu O. Guney

Opt. Mater. Express 9(1), 256-268 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Finite-thickness effects in plasmonic films with periodic cylindrical anisotropy [Invited]

Igor V. Bondarev

Opt. Mater. Express 9(1), 285-294 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Reliable modeling of ultrathin alternative plasmonic materials using spectroscopic ellipsometry [Invited]

R. Secondo, D. Fomra, N. Izyumskaya, V. Avrutin, J. N Hilfiker, A. Martin, Ü. Özgür, and N. Kinsey

Opt. Mater. Express 9(2), 760-770 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Ultrafast THz modulators with WSe₂ thin films [Invited]

Prashanth Gopalan, Ashish Chanana, Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Ajay Nahata, Michael A. Scarpulla, and Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez

Opt. Mater. Express 9(2), 826-836 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Ultraviolet absorption band engineering of graphene by integrated plasmonic structures

Yijun Cai, Zhengying Wang, Shuang Yan, Longfang Ye, and Jinfeng Zhu

Opt. Mater. Express 8(11), 3295-3306 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Dynamically tunable infrared grating based on graphene-enabled phase switching of a split ring resonator [Invited]

Guan Wang, Chen Chen, Ziyang Zhang, Guohong Ma, Kai Zhang, and Cheng-Wei Qiu

Opt. Mater. Express 9(1), 56-64 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Graphene Tamm plasmon-induced low-threshold optical bistability at terahertz frequencies

Leyong Jiang, Jiao Tang, Jiao Xu, Zhiwei Zheng, Jun Dong, Jun Guo, Shengyou Qian, Xiaoyu Dai, and Yuanjiang Xiang

Opt. Mater. Express 9(1), 139-150 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Far-infrared Tamm polaritons in a microcavity with incorporated graphene sheet

J. M. S. S. Silva and M. I. Vasilevskiy

Opt. Mater. Express 9(1), 244-255 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Anisotropic plasmon induced transparency in black phosphorus nanostrip trimer

Li Han, Lin Wang, Huaizhong Xing, and Xiaoshuang Chen

Opt. Mater. Express 9(2), 352-361 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Atomically-thin quantum dots integrated with lithium niobate photonic chips [Invited]

Daniel White, Artur Branny, Robert J. Chapman, Raphaël Picard, Mauro Brotons-Gisbert, Andreas Boes, Alberto Peruzzo, Cristian Bonato, and Brian D. Gerardot

Opt. Mater. Express 9(2), 441-448 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

In-plane electrical bias tunable optical properties of 1T-TaS₂ [Invited]

Weijian Li and Gururaj V. Naik

Opt. Mater. Express 9(2), 497-503 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Polarization sensitive black phosphorus nanomechanical resonators

Arnob Islam, Anno van den Akker, and Philip X.-L. Feng

Opt. Mater. Express 9(2), 526-535 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Valley selective optical control of excitons in 2D semiconductors using a chiral metasurface [Invited]

S. Guddala, R. Bushati, M. Li, A. B. Khanikaev, and V. M. Menon

Opt. Mater. Express 9(2), 536-543 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB  [Suppl. Mat. (2)]

Negative and positive terahertz and infrared photoconductivity in uncooled graphene

Victor Ryzhii, Dmitry S. Ponomarev, Maxim Ryzhii, Vladimir Mitin, Michael S. Shur, and Taiichi Otsuji

Opt. Mater. Express 9(2), 585-597 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Integration of atomically thin layers of transition metal dichalcogenides into high-Q, monolithic Bragg-cavities: an experimental platform for the enhancement of the optical interaction in 2D-materials

Heiko Knopf, Nils Lundt, Tobias Bucher, Sven Höfling, Sefaattin Tongay, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Isabelle Staude, Ulrike Schulz, Christian Schneider, and Falk Eilenberger

Opt. Mater. Express 9(2), 598-610 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Loss and coupling tuning via heterogeneous integration of MoS₂ layers in silicon photonics [Invited]

Rishi Maiti, Chandraman Patil, Rohit A. Hemnani, Mario Miscuglio, Rubab Amin, Zhizhen Ma, Rimjhim Chaudhary, A. T. Charlie Johnson, Ludwig Bartels, Ritesh Agarwal, and Volker J. Sorger

Opt. Mater. Express 9(2), 751-759 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Optical contrast signatures of hexagonal boron nitride on a device platform

Yanan Wang, Vivian Zhou, Yong Xie, Xu-Qian Zheng, and Philip X.-L. Feng

Opt. Mater. Express 9(3), 1223-1232 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Tunable light trapping and absorption enhancement with graphene-based complementary metasurfaces

Tingting Liu, Chaobiao Zhou, Xiaoyun Jiang, Le Cheng, Chen Xu, and Shuyuan Xiao

Opt. Mater. Express 9(3), 1469-1478 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Electrically tunable valley polarization and valley coherence in monolayer WSe₂ embedded in a van der Waals heterostructure [Invited]

Chitraleema Chakraborty, Arunabh Mukherjee, Liangyu Qiu, and A. Nick Vamivakas

Opt. Mater. Express 9(3), 1479-1487 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Probing nano-heterogeneity and aging effects in lateral 2D heterostructures using tip-enhanced photoluminescence

Prasana K. Sahoo, Haonan Zong, Jiru Liu, Wenjin Xue, Xiaoyi Lai, Humberto R. Gutiérrez, and Dmitri V. Voronine

Opt. Mater. Express 9(4), 1620-1631 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Graphene and Mo₂C vertical heterostructure for femtosecond mode-locked lasers [Invited]

Haoran Mu, Mingfen Tuo, Chuan Xu, Xiaozhi Bao, Si Xiao, Tian Sun, Lei Li, Luming Zhao, Shaojuan Li, Wencai Ren, and Qiaoliang Bao

Opt. Mater. Express 9(8), 3268-3276 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB