New half-light half-matter particles may hold the key to a computing revolution

Nanowerk   October 11, 2018
An international team of researchers (UK, France) shows that by embedding the honeycomb metasurface between two reflecting mirrors and changing the distance between them, one can tune the fundamental properties of the Dirac polaritons in a simple, controllable and reversible way. They have shown the ability to slow down or even stop the Dirac particles, and modify their chirality which is impossible to do in graphene itself. The work opens the door for the development of photonic circuitry using these alternative particles and has implications for research in the field of Dirac particles…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE

Schematic of a cavity-embedded honeycomb metasurface. The honeycomb array of meta-atoms is composed of two inequivalent. Credit: Nature Communications volume 9, Article number: 2194 (2018)

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