Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Giant optical anisotropy in transition metal dichalcogenides for next-generation photonics

  • G. A. Ermolaev,
  • D. V. Grudinin,
  • Y. V. Stebunov,
  • K. V. Voronin,
  • V. G. Kravets,
  • J. Duan,
  • A. B. Mazitov,
  • G. I. Tselikov,
  • A. Bylinkin,
  • D. I. Yakubovsky,
  • S. M. Novikov,
  • D. G. Baranov,
  • A. Y. Nikitin,
  • I. A. Kruglov,
  • T. Shegai,
  • P. Alonso-González,
  • A. N. Grigorenko,
  • A. V. Arsenin,
  • K. S. Novoselov,
  • V. S. Volkov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21139-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Optical anisotropy in a broad spectral range is pivotal to efficient light manipulation. Here, the authors measure a birefringence of 1.5 in the infrared range and 3 in the visible light for MoS2.