Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Beam steering at the nanosecond time scale with an atomically thin reflector

  • Trond I. Andersen,
  • Ryan J. Gelly,
  • Giovanni Scuri,
  • Bo L. Dwyer,
  • Dominik S. Wild,
  • Rivka Bekenstein,
  • Andrey Sushko,
  • Jiho Sung,
  • You Zhou,
  • Alexander A. Zibrov,
  • Xiaoling Liu,
  • Andrew Y. Joe,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Susanne F. Yelin,
  • Philip Kim,
  • Hongkun Park,
  • Mikhail D. Lukin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29976-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Andersen et al. have demonstrated a new type of beam steering device based on the excitonic response of an atomically thin semiconductor. Using electrostatic gates, the authors achieved tunable steering with switching times on the nanosecond scale.