Yiwei Le and Jeree MurrayWashington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA _______________________________________ We often employ hexagonal boron nitride in crafting ‘van der Waals heterostructure’ devices for exploring physics of graphene or other 2D materials. Here we describe two new projects that start with or rely on the physics of hBN. First, in collaboration with the lab…
Deyu LiVanderbilt University – Nashville, Tennessee, USA_______________________________________ Phonon polaritons (PhPs) have attracted extensive attention in the study of light-matter interactions because of their origin as the hybrid modes generated from coupling between infrared photons and optically active phonons. In terms of energy transport, while the contribution of surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs) to near-field radiation has…
Atac Imamoglu
Professor of Physics, ETH Zurich
Atac Imamoglu received his PhD in 1991 from Stanford University for his work on electromagnetically induced transparency. After an ITAMP postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, he joined University of California, Santa Barbara as an assistant professor where he demonstrated the first solid-state single-photon source. In 2002, he moved to the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich, where he leads the Quantum Photonics group. His research focuses on quantum optics of two dimensional materials, with a strong emphasis on optical spectroscopy of strongly correlated electrons in van der Waals heterostructures.