Two-dimensional crystals and their coupling to plasmonic nanostructures

Over the past few years atomically-thin materials, such as graphene, boron nitride and the group-VI transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC), have stimulated intense interdisciplinary research in condensed matter physics, chemistry and electrical engineering. Due to their unique mechanical, electrical and optoelectronic properties they have already been implemented into flexible electronic and photonic devices such as high-performance field effect transistors, optical sensors, photo-catalytic and photo-voltaic devices and, most recently, light emitting diodes and lasers spanning the visible, infrared and THz regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.