Optoelectronic devices, plasmonics and photonics with topological insulators

TL;DR

This review discusses recent advances in optoelectronic, photonic, and plasmonic devices utilizing topological insulators, highlighting their unique surface states and broad application potential across various energy ranges.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent progress, applications, and challenges in topological insulator-based optoelectronics, photonics, and plasmonics.

Findings

Development of plasmonic devices from Terahertz to ultraviolet

Enhanced photodetectors using topological insulators

Emerging applications in topological photonics and thermoplasmonics

Abstract

Topological insulators are innovative materials with semiconducting bulk together with surface states forming a Dirac cone, which ensure metallic conduction in the surface plane. Therefore, topological insulators represent an ideal platform for optoelectronics and photonics. The recent progress of science and technology based on topological insulators enables the exploitation of their huge application capabilities. Here, we review the recent achievements of optoelectronics, photonics and plasmonics with topological insulators. Plasmonic devices and photodetectors based on topological insulators in a wide energy range, from Terahertz to the ultraviolet, promise outstanding impact. Furthermore, the peculiarities, the range of applications and the challenges of the emerging fields of topological photonics and thermoplasmonics are discussed.