This study explores new platforms for realizing polariton Chern bands in 2D photonic crystals (PhCs) by moving beyond the traditional Dirac cone framework. It focuses on band structures with symmetry-protected bound states in the continuum and Γ-point degeneracies, enabling larger topological gaps, higher Chern numbers, and more uniform Berry curvature—features crucial for experiments and device applications.
Eigenvalue and Berry curvature calculations were performed using MATLAB and Mathematica, while Lumerical FDTD was used to simulate photonic and polaritonic band structures in realistic TMD-PhC systems, as well as edge-state dispersion. Reproducing the data requires access to these software tools.
N. Lydick, J. Hu, and H. Deng, "Dimensional dependence of a molecular-polariton mode number," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 41, C247-C253 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.524026
The optical properties of the 2D magnet CrSBr were explored through photoluminescence/reflectance, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, and self-consistent GW calculations. These data reveal a large exciton binding energy in bulk CrSBr that is attributed to localization arising from the quasi-1D electronic structure.
Smolenski, S. et al., Large Exciton Binding Energy in the Bulk van der Waals Magnet CrSBr. arXiv:2403.13897 (2024) and Smolenski, S., Wen, M., Li, Q. et al. Large exciton binding energy in a bulk van der Waals magnet from quasi-1D electronic localization. Nat Commun 16, 1134 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56457-x
This dataset contains raw and source data for all figures generated in the manuscript "Macroscopic Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Monolayers with Uniformly High Optical Quality"
The raw data files include '.spe' data, which are spectral data collected by LightField Sofware, and '.dset' and '.vms' files, which are X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) data and require CasaXPS to access.
The source data files include the processed data that can be directly used for generating the corresponding figures in the manuscript.
