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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 10, 103602(2024)

Strong light–matter coupling between excitons and chiral quasi-bound states in the continuum in van der Waals metasurfaces

Zhonghong Shi, Houjiao Zhang, and Zhang-Kai Zhou^*

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State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

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Category: Nanophotonics, Metamaterials, and Plasmonics

Received: Mar. 20, 2024

Accepted: May. 15, 2024

Published Online: Oct. 12, 2024

The Author Email: Zhang-Kai Zhou (zhouzhk@mail.sysu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202422.103602

CSTR:32184.14.COL202422.103602

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