Roadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials

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Contributors

  • Collaborators - (Author)
  • Chair of Ultrafast Microscopy and Photonics (ct.qmat)
  • Clusters of Excellence ct.qmat: Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter
  • ICFO - Institute of Photonic Sciences
  • ICREA - Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies
  • Columbia University
  • Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
  • University of Pisa
  • International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory
  • University of Minho
  • University of Southern Denmark
  • Purdue University
  • Stony Brook University
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
  • Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Paris-Sud University
  • Technical University of Munich
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • University of Oldenburg
  • City University of New York
  • University of Münster
  • Technical University of Denmark
  • University of Georgia
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Northwestern University
  • Stanford University
  • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  • ETH Zurich
  • University of Basel
  • Harvard University
  • NTT Research, Inc.
  • Polytechnic University of Milan

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.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3961-4095
Number of pages135
JournalACS photonics
Volume12
Issue number8
Publication statusPublished - 20 Aug 2025
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-9213-2777/work/196666300

Keywords

Keywords

  • 2D polaritons, electro-optical modulation, excitons in van der Waals materials, layer stacking and moiré photonics, nonlinear optics, photonics with 2D materials, quantum photonics