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2025

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Photonics in Flatland: Challenges and Opportunities for Nanophotonics with 2D Semiconductors

A. Azimi, J. Barrier, A. Barreda, T. Bauer, F. Bouzari, A. Brokkelkamp, F.B. de Mongeot, T. Parsons, P. Christianen, S. Conesa-Boj, A.G. Curto, S. Das, B. Dias, I. Epstein, Z. Fedorova, F. J García de Abajo, I. Goykhman, L. Greten, J. Grönqvist, L. Guarneri, Y. Guo, T. Hoekstra, X. Hu, B. Laudert, J. Lynch, S. Meyer, B. Munkhbat, D. Neshev, M. Ogienko, S. Papadopoulos, A. Parappurath, J. Sangers, P. Soubelet, C. Soukaras, G. Soavi, I. Staude, Z. Sun, K.-J. Tierooij, MD Gius Uddin, A. Ustinov, J. van de Groep, J. van Wezel, N. Vermeulen, H. Wang, Y. Wang, S. Xiao, B. You, X. Zambrana-Puyalto

npj Nanophotonics 2, 44 (2025)

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Photonics in Flatland: Challenges and Opportunities for Nanophotonics with 2D Semiconductors
2025

34

Temperature-dependent Optical and Polaritonic Properties of hBN-encapsulated Monolayer TMDs

M. Meshulam, A. A. Kahlon, Y. Gershuni, T. Poirier, J. H. Edgar, S. A. Tongay, and I. Epstein

Advanced Optical Materials (Rising Stars Collection) 14 (7), e02535 (2025)

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Temperature-dependent Optical and Polaritonic Properties of hBN-encapsulated Monolayer TMDs
2025

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Strongly Coupled Exciton - Hyperbolic-phonon-polariton Hybridized States in hBN-encapsulated Biased Bilayer Graphene

T. Eini, N.M.R. Peres, Y. Mazor, and I. Epstein

Advanced Optical Materials 13 (35), e01712 (2025)

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Strongly Coupled Exciton - Hyperbolic-phonon-polariton Hybridized States in hBN-encapsulated Biased Bilayer Graphene
2025

32

The Transmission Line Model for 2D Materials and van der Waals Heterostructures

T. Eini, A. A. Kahlon, M. Meshulam, T. Poirier, J. H. Edgar, S. A.Tongay, Y. Mazor, and I. Epstein

Phys. Rev. B 112, 205402 (2025)

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The Transmission Line Model for 2D Materials and van der Waals Heterostructures
2025

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The Importance of Pure Dephasing in the Optical Response of Excitons in High-quality van der Waals Heterostructures

A. A. Kahlon, M. Meshulam, T. Eini, T. Poirier, J. H. Edgar, S. A. Tongay and I. Epstein

Phys. Rev. B 112, L041402 (2025)

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The Importance of Pure Dephasing in the Optical Response of Excitons in High-quality van der Waals Heterostructures
2025

30

Nanometer-Scale Cavities for Mid-Infrared Radiation via Image Phonon Polariton Resonators

M. Klein, Y. Gershuni, A. Perutski, J-P. Hugonin and I. Epstein

Nano Letters 25 (22), 8999-9005 (2025)

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Nanometer-Scale Cavities for Mid-Infrared Radiation via Image Phonon Polariton Resonators
2025

29

Electrically Tunable Interband Collective Excitations in Biased Bilayer and Trilayer Graphene

T. Eini, M.F.C. Quintela, J.C.G. Henriques, R.M. Ribeiro, Y. Mazor, N.M.R. Peres and I. Epstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 196903 (2025)

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Electrically Tunable Interband Collective Excitations in Biased Bilayer and Trilayer Graphene
2025

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Monolayer semiconductor superlattices as hyperbolic materials at visible to near-infrared frequencies

I. Kats, T. Eini, and I. Epstein

Phys. Rev. B 111 (4), L041302 (2025)

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Monolayer semiconductor superlattices as hyperbolic materials at visible to near-infrared frequencies
2024

27

In-plane Exciton Polaritons vs Plasmon Polaritons: Nonlocal corrections, confinement and loss

Y. Gershuni and I. Epstein

Phys. Rev. B 109, L121408 (2024)

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In-plane Exciton Polaritons vs Plasmon Polaritons: Nonlocal corrections, confinement and loss
2024

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Extending the propagation length of graphene plasmons via nonlinear frequency conversion

E. Landa, L. Leiderman, Y. Mazor and I. Epstein

Applied Physics Letters 124 (8), (2024)

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Extending the propagation length of graphene plasmons via nonlinear frequency conversion
2022

25

Valley-polarized hyperbolic exciton polaritons in few-layer two-dimensional semiconductors at visible frequencies

T. Eini, Tal Asherov, Y. Mazor and I. Epstein

Physical Review B 106 (20), L201405 (2022)

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Valley-polarized hyperbolic exciton polaritons in few-layer two-dimensional semiconductors at visible frequencies
2022

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Absorption and optical selection rules of tunable excitons in biased bilayer graphene

J.C.G Henriques, I. Epstein and N.M.R Peres

Physical Review B 105 (4), 45411 (2022)

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Absorption and optical selection rules of tunable excitons in biased bilayer graphene
2021

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Quantum surface-response of metals revealed by acoustic graphene plasmons

P.A.D Gonçalves, T. Christensen, N.M.R Peres, A.P Jauho, I. Epstein; F.H.L Koppens, M. Soljačić and N. A Mortense

Nature Communications 12 (1), 3271 (2021)

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Quantum surface-response of metals revealed by acoustic graphene plasmons
2021

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Quantum nanophotonics in two-dimensional materials

A. Reserbat-Plantey, I. Epstein, I. Torre, A.T. Costa, PAD Gonsalves, N.A Mortensen, M. Polini, J. CW Song, N. MR Peres and F. HL Koppens

Acs Photonics 8 (1), 85-101 (2021)

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Quantum nanophotonics in two-dimensional materials
2020

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Highly confined In-plane propagating exciton-polaritons on monolayer semiconductors

I. Epstein, A. J. Chaves, D. A. Rhodes, B. Frank, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, H. Giessen, J. C. Hone, N. M R Peres and F. H L Koppens

2D Materials 7, 35031 (2020)

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Highly confined In-plane propagating exciton-polaritons on monolayer semiconductors
2020

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Understanding the electromagnetic response of graphene/metallic nanostructures hybrids of different dimensionality

T. G. Rappoport*, I. Epstein*, F. H. L. Koppens and N. M. R. Peres

*equal contribution

ACS Photonics 7 (8), 2302-2308 (2020)

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Understanding the electromagnetic response of graphene/metallic nanostructures hybrids of different dimensionality
2020

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Far-field excitation of single graphene plasmon cavities with ultracompressed mode volumes

I. Epstein, D. Alcaraz, Z. Huang, J.P. Hugonin, V. Pusapati, A. Kumar, T. Khodkov, X. Deputy,
T. Rappoport, J.-Y. Hong N. M. R. Peres, J. Kong, D. R. Smith, and F.H.L. Koppens,

Science 368 (6496), 1219-1223 (2020)

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Far-field excitation of single graphene plasmon cavities with ultracompressed mode volumes
2020

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Near-unity light absorption in a monolayer WS2 van der Waals heterostructure cavity

I. Epstein*, B. Terrés, A. J. Chaves, V-V Pusapati, D. A. Rhodes, B. Frank, V. Zimmermann, Y. Qin, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, H. Giessen, S. Tongay, J. C. Hone, N M. R. Peres, and F H. L. Koppens*

Nano Letters 20 (5), 3545-3552 (2020)

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Near-unity light absorption in a monolayer WS2 van der Waals heterostructure cavity
2019

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Optomechanical measurement of thermal transport in two-dimensional MoSe2 lattices

N. Morell, S. Tepsic, A. Reserbat-Plantey, A. Cepellotti, M. Manca, I. Epstein, A. Isacsson, X. Marie, F. Mauri, and A. Bachtold

Nano letters 19 (5), 3143-3150 (2019)

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Optomechanical measurement of thermal transport in two-dimensional MoSe2 lattices
2018

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Observation of linear plasmonic breathers and adiabatic elimination in a plasmonic multi-level coupled system

I. Epstein, H. Suchowski, D. Weisman,R. Remez and A. Arie

Optics express 26 (2), 1433-1442 (2018)

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Observation of linear plasmonic breathers and adiabatic elimination in a plasmonic multi-level coupled system
2018

14

Probing the ultimate plasmon confinement limits with a van der Waals heterostructure

D. A. Iranzo*, S. Nanot*, E. J. C. Dias, I. Epstein, C. Peng, D. K. Efetov, M. B. Lundeberg, R. Parret, J. Osmond, J.-Y. Hong, J. Kong, D. R. Englund, N. M. R. Peres, and F. H.L. Koppens

Science 360 (6386), 291-295 (2018)

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Probing the ultimate plasmon confinement limits with a van der Waals heterostructure
2017

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Wavefront shaping of plasmonic beams by selective coupling

Y. Tsur Yuval, I. Epstein, R. Remez, and A. Arie

ACS Photonics 4 (6), 1339-1343 (2017)

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Wavefront shaping of plasmonic beams by selective coupling
2016

12

Surface plasmon wavefront and spectral shaping by near field holography

I. Epstein, Y. Tsur and A. Arie

Laser & Photonics Reviews 10 (3), 360-381 (2016)

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Surface plasmon wavefront and spectral shaping by near field holography
2016

11

Generation of intensity-controlled two-dimensional shape-preserving beams in plasmonic lossy media

I. Epstein, R. Remez, Y. Tsur and A. Arie

Optica 3 (1), 15-19 (2016)

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Generation of intensity-controlled two-dimensional shape-preserving beams in plasmonic lossy media
2015

10

Efficient excitation and control of arbitrary surface plasmon polariton beams using one-dimensional metallic gratings

D. Bar-Lev, A. Arie, J. Scheuer Jacob and I. Epstein

JOSA B 32 (5), 923-932 (2015)

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Efficient excitation and control of arbitrary surface plasmon polariton beams using one-dimensional metallic gratings
2015

9

Arbitrary Holographic Spectral Shaping of Plasmonic Broadband Excitations

Y. Tsur, I. Epstein and A. Arie

Optics Letters 40 (7), 1615-1618 (2015)

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Arbitrary Holographic Spectral Shaping of Plasmonic Broadband Excitations
2015

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Polarization controlled coupling and shaping of surface plasmon polaritons by nanoantenna arrays

O. Avayu, I. Epstein, E. Eizner and T. Ellenbogen

Optics Letters 40 (7), 1520-1523 (2015)

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Polarization controlled coupling and shaping of surface plasmon polaritons by nanoantenna arrays
2014

7

Arbitrary bending plasmonic light waves

I. Epstein and A.Arie

Physical Review Letters 112 (2), 23903 (2014)

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Arbitrary bending plasmonic light waves
2014

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Shaping Plasmonic Light Beams with Near-field Plasmonic Holograms

I. Epstein, Y. Lilach and A. Arie

JOSA B 31 (7), 1642-1647 (2014)

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Shaping Plasmonic Light Beams with Near-field Plasmonic Holograms
2014

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Dynamic generation of plasmonic bottle-beams with controlled shape

I. Epstein and A.Arie

Optics Letters 39 (11), 3165-3168 (2014)

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Dynamic generation of plasmonic bottle-beams with controlled shape
2014

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Rapidly accelerating Mathieu and Weber surface plasmon beams

A. Libster-Hershko* , Epstein* Itai and A. Arie

PhysRevLett 113 (12), 123902 (2014)

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Rapidly accelerating Mathieu and Weber surface plasmon beams
2012

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Plasmon-enhanced Bragg diffraction

I. Epstein , I. Dolev , D. Bar-Lev and A.Arie

Physical Review B 86 (20), 205122 (2012)

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Plasmon-enhanced Bragg diffraction
2012

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Surface-plasmon holographic beam shaping

I. Dolev , I. Epstein and A.Arie

Physical review letters 109 (20), 203903 (2012)

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Surface-plasmon holographic beam shaping
2008

1

Measurements of the Einstein relation in doped and undoped molecular thin films

O. Tal , I. Epstein , O. Snir , Y. Roichman , Y. Ganot , CK. Chan , A. Kahn ,N. Tessler and Y. Rosenwaks

Physical Review B 77 (20), 201201 (2008)

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Measurements of the Einstein relation in doped and undoped molecular thin films
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