Dielectric Substrates Modulate Patterns in Two-Dimensional Dipolar Materials

October 3, 2019

Applied Physics graduate student Ziwei Wang and faculty member Erik Luijten published a paper in Physical Review Letters, showing that 2D dipolar materials can exhibit a variety of tunable patterns when placed on substrates with specific dielectric properties. This is a computational prediction, which may guide future experimental realizations in which electric or magnetic dipolar particles are placed on metamaterial substrates.

Dielectric Modulation of Two-Dimensional Dipolar Materials
Ziwei Wang and Erik Luijten
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 096101 – Published 28 August 2019

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.096101