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NATURE PHOTONICS
Volume 14, Issue 7, Pages 426-+Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-020-0624-y
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- US Air Force [AnchorFA9550-17-1-0331]
- DOE 'Photonics at Thermodynamic Limits' Energy Frontier Research Center [DE-SC0019140]
- Rubicon Fellowship from the 'Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)'
- Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Education [NRF-2016R1A6A3A03012480]
- Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek-Vlaanderen (FWO)
- National Science Foundation [ECCS-1542152]
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The highly engineerable scattering properties of resonant optical antennas underpin the operation of metasurface-based flat optics. Thus far, the choice of antenna has been limited to shaped metallic and high-index semiconductor nanostructures that support geometrical plasmonic or Mie resonances. Whereas these resonant elements offer strong light-matter interaction and excellent control over the scattering phase and amplitude, their electrical tunability has proven to be quite limited. Here, we demonstrate how excitonic resonances in atomically thin semiconductors can be harnessed as a different, third type of resonance to create mutable, flat optics. These strong materials-based resonances are unmatched in their tunability with various external stimuli. To illustrate the concept, we first demonstrate how excitons can enhance the focusing efficiency of a millimetre-scale, patterned WS2 zone plate lens. We also show how electrical gating can completely turn on and off the exciton resonance and thereby modulate the focusing efficiency by 33%. By harnessing the excitonic resonances of a monolayer of WS2 in the visible spectral range, large-area, actively tunable and atomically thin optical lenses can be realized.
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