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Main Authors: Liu, Xiao, Zhao, Tianxiang, Wang, Ting, Xu, Junsheng, Wang, Junyong, Zhang, Kai, Li, Hongliang, Yu, Xuechao, Wang, Junjia
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27740
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author Liu, Xiao
Zhao, Tianxiang
Wang, Ting
Xu, Junsheng
Wang, Junyong
Zhang, Kai
Li, Hongliang
Yu, Xuechao
Wang, Junjia
author_facet Liu, Xiao
Zhao, Tianxiang
Wang, Ting
Xu, Junsheng
Wang, Junyong
Zhang, Kai
Li, Hongliang
Yu, Xuechao
Wang, Junjia
contents High-performance infrared photodetection underpins various applications spanning surveillance, environmental monitoring, optical communications and biomedical imaging. However, conventional bulk detectors remain limited by poor spectral tunability, mechanical rigidity, and high dark currents, motivating the pursuit of low-dimensional material platforms such as graphene and transition metal dichalgenides. Black phosphorus (BP) is particularly compelling in this context, owing to its thickness-tunable direct bandgap, high carrier mobility, and pronounced in-plane anisotropy. Nevertheless, its atomically thin nature inherently restricts light absorption, posing a fundamental bottleneck for device performance. Here, we demonstrate quasi-bound states in the continuum (quasi-BICs) within a dielectric metasurface integrated with BP, enabling strongly enhanced and spectrally selective light-matter interactions. By introducing controlled symmetry breaking at the unit-cell level, high-quality-factor resonances are realized, resulting in pronounced electromagnetic field confinement within the BP layer. This resonant enhancement substantially increases photocarrier generation while preserving the intrinsic polarization anisotropy of BP, which elucidates a robust pathway for overcoming the optical absorption bottleneck in anisotropic 2D optoelectronics via quasi-BIC platforms.
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spellingShingle Tailoring Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum for Infrared Photodetection in Black Phosphorus
Liu, Xiao
Zhao, Tianxiang
Wang, Ting
Xu, Junsheng
Wang, Junyong
Zhang, Kai
Li, Hongliang
Yu, Xuechao
Wang, Junjia
Optics
High-performance infrared photodetection underpins various applications spanning surveillance, environmental monitoring, optical communications and biomedical imaging. However, conventional bulk detectors remain limited by poor spectral tunability, mechanical rigidity, and high dark currents, motivating the pursuit of low-dimensional material platforms such as graphene and transition metal dichalgenides. Black phosphorus (BP) is particularly compelling in this context, owing to its thickness-tunable direct bandgap, high carrier mobility, and pronounced in-plane anisotropy. Nevertheless, its atomically thin nature inherently restricts light absorption, posing a fundamental bottleneck for device performance. Here, we demonstrate quasi-bound states in the continuum (quasi-BICs) within a dielectric metasurface integrated with BP, enabling strongly enhanced and spectrally selective light-matter interactions. By introducing controlled symmetry breaking at the unit-cell level, high-quality-factor resonances are realized, resulting in pronounced electromagnetic field confinement within the BP layer. This resonant enhancement substantially increases photocarrier generation while preserving the intrinsic polarization anisotropy of BP, which elucidates a robust pathway for overcoming the optical absorption bottleneck in anisotropic 2D optoelectronics via quasi-BIC platforms.
title Tailoring Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum for Infrared Photodetection in Black Phosphorus
topic Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27740