Coherent light-matter interactions in van der Waals materials

Professor Hui Deng, Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom

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Abstract

A variety of van der Waals semiconductors feature large oscillator strengths and at the same the flexibility to construct heterostructure and to integrate with a variety of substrates. They allow studies of coherent light-matter interactions that have been difficult to access in traditional materials. We will discuss a few examples, including collective Lamb shift and perfect absorption in a monolayer, cavity-enhanced optical Stark effect, moiré-quantum dot array polaritons with enhanced nonlinearities, and 2D magnet-photonic crystal polaritons that couples atomic and photonic lattice anisotropies. These phenomena open new pathways to novel photonic devices.

Biography

Hui Deng is a Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research centers on creation, control, and application of single- and many-body quantum states in matter-light coupled systems, with an overarching goal to develop useful quantum systems for better technology. She received her BS in Modern Applied Physics from Tsinghua University, and her Master in Electrical Engineering and PhD in Applied Physics both from Stanford University. She received the NSF Career Awards, AFOSR Young Investigator Awards, and the Humboldt Foundation Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. She is a fellow of APS and OSA.