2D Materials Enabled Next-Generation Integrated Optoelectronics: from Fabrication to Applications

2D materials, such as graphene, black phosphorous and transition metal dichalcogenides, have gained persistent attention in the past few years thanks to their unique properties for optoelectronics. More importantly, introducing 2D materials into silicon photonic devices will greatly promote the performance of optoelectronic devices, including improvement of response speed, reduction of energy consumption, and simplification of fabrication process. Moreover, 2D materials meet the requirements of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor compatible silicon photonic manufacturing. A comprehensive overview and evaluation of state-of-the-art 2D photonic integrated devices for telecommunication applications is provided, including light sources, optical modulators, and photodetectors. Optimized by unique structures such as photonic crystal waveguide, slot waveguide, and microring resonator, these 2D material-based photonic devices can be further improved in light-matter interactions, providing a powerful design for silicon photonic integrated circuits.

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2D materials, such as graphene, black phosphorous, and transition metal dichalcogenides, have unique properties for optoelectronics and can greatly enhance the performance of silicon photonic devices. By optimizing the structures of photonic devices based on 2D materials, such as photonic crystal waveguides, slot waveguides, and microring resonators, the light-matter interactions can be further improved, providing a powerful design for silicon photonic integrated circuits.