PUBLICATIONS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• “Highly nonlinear dipolar exciton-polaritons in bilayer MoS2,” B. Datta, M. Khatoniar, P. Deshmukh, F. Thouin, R. Bushati, S. De Liberato, S. Kena-Cohen, and V. M. Menon, Nature Comm. (2022)
• “Spin correlated exciton-polaritons in vdW magnets,” F. Dirnberger, R. Bushati, B. Datta, A. Kumar, A. MacDonald, E. Baldini and V. M. Menon, Nature Nanotechnology, (2022)
• “Enhanced nonlinear interaction of polaritons via excitonic Rydberg states in monolayer WSe2,” J. Gu, V. Walther, L. Waldecker, D. Rhodes, A. Raja, J. C. Hone, T. F. Heinz, S. Kena-Cohen, T. Pohl and V. M. Menon, Nature Comm. 12, 2269 (2021)
• “A room temperature polariton LED based on monolayer WS2,”
  J. Gu, B. Chakraborty, M. Khatoniyar, and V. M. Menon, Nature Nanotechnology 14, 1024 (2019).
• Near deterministic activation of room temperature quantum emitters in hBN,
  N. V. Proscia, Z. Shotan, H. Jayakumar, P. Redy, A. Alkauskas, M. Doherty, C. A. Meriles, and V. M. Menon, Optica 5, 1128 (2018).
• Optical control of room temperature valley polaritons,
  Z. Sun, J. Gu, A. Ghazaryan, Z. Shotan, C. R. Considine, M. Dollar, B. Chakraborty, X. Liu, P. Ghanemi, S. K-Cohen, and V. M. Menon, Nature Photonics 11, 491 (2017).
• Photonic hypercrystals for control of light matter interactions,
  T. Glafsky, J. Gu, E. Narimanov and V. M. Menon, PNAS 14, 5125 (2017).
• Strong light-matter coupling in two-dimensional atomic crystals,
  X. Liu, T. Galfsky, Z. Sun, F. Xia, E-C. Lin, Y-H Lee, S. Kena-Cohen, and V. M. Menon, Nature Photonics 9, 30 (2015)
• Active hyperbolic metamaterials: enhanced spontaneous emission and light extraction,
  T. Galfsky, H. N. S. Krishnamoorthy, W. Newman, E. E. Narimanov, Z. Jacob., and V. M. Menon, Optica 2, 62 (2015)
• Visualization of Exciton Transport in Ordered and Disordered Molecular Solids,”
  G. M. Akselrod, P. B. Deotare, N. J. Thompson, J. Lee, W. A. Tisdale, M. A. Baldo, V. M. Menon, and V. Bulovic, Nature Comm. 5, 3646 (2014)
• Topological transitions in metamaterials,
  H. N. S. Krishnamoorthy, Z. Jacob, E. Narimanov, I. Kretzschmar, and V. M. Menon, Science 336, 205 (2012).

     2023

• “Cavity-controlled magneto-optical properties of a strongly coupled van der Waals magnet,” ArXiv 2023
• “The bulk van der Waals layered magnet CrSBr is a quasi-1D quantum material,” J. Klein et al, ACS Nano 2023
• “Neural computing with coherent laser networks,” M-A. Miri and V. M. Menon, Nanophotonics 2023
• “Spin Dynamics of a Solid-State Qubit in Proximity to a Superconductor,” R. Monge et al., Nano Lett. 2023

     2022

• “Sensing the local magnetic environment through optically active defects in a layered magnetic semiconductor,” J. Klein et al. ACS Nano 2022
• “Highly nonlinear dipolar exciton-polaritons in bilayer MoS2,” B. Datta, M. Khatoniar, P. Deshmukh, F. Thouin, R. Bushati, S. De Liberato, S. Kena-Cohen, and V. M. Menon, Nature Comm. (2022)
• “Exciton fine structure splitting and linearly polarized emission in strained transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers,” M. Glazov et al.,  Phys. Rev. B 106, 125303 (2022)
• “Spin-correlated exciton-polaritons in a van der Waals magnet,” F. Dirnberger, R. Bushati, B. Datta, A. Kumar, A. H. MacDonald, E. Baldini and V. M. Menon, Nature Nanotechnology (2022)
• “Hybrid epsilon near zero modes of photonic gasp antennas,” A. Patri, K. Cognee, D. Myers, L. Haeberle, V. M. Menon and S. Kena-Cohen, Phys Rev. B (2022)
• “Thermalization of fluorescent protein exciton-polaritons at room temperature,” S. Satapathy, B. Liu, P. Deshmukh, P. Molinaro, F. Dirnberger, M. Khatoniar, R. Koder, and V. M. Menon, Advanced Materials (2022)
• “Relaxing Symmetry Rules for Nonlinear Optical Interactions in Van der Waals Materials via Strong Light–Matter Coupling,” M. Khatoniar, R. Bushati, A. Mekawy, F. Dirnberger, A. Alu, and V. M. Menon, ACS Photonics  (2022)
• “Orienting an Organic Semiconductor into DNA 3D Arrays by Covalent Bonds,” X. Wang et al., Angewandte Chemie (2022)

     2021

• “Quasi-1D Exciton Channels in Strain-Engineered 2D Materials,” F. Dirnberger, J. D. Ziegler, P. E. Faria Jr., R. Bushati, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, J. Fabian, D. Bougeard, A. Chernikov, and V. M. Menon, Science Advances 7, eabj3066 (2021)
• “Topological phonon-polariton funneling in mid-infrared metasurfaces,” S. Guddala, F. Komissarenko, S. Kiriushechkina, A. Vakulenko, M. Li, V. M. Menon, A. Alù, A. B. Khanikaev, Science 374, 6564 (2021)
• “Selective Isomer Emission via Funneling of Exciton Polaritons,” S. Satapathy, M. Khatoniar, D. K. Parappuram, B. Liu, G. John, J. Feist, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, and V. M. Menon, Science Advances 7, eabj0997 (2021)
• “Ab-initio investigation of Er3+ defects in tungsten disulfide,” G. Lopez-Morales et al. Computational Material Science (in press)
• “Experimental observation of topological Z2 exciton-polaritons in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers,” M. Li, I. Sinev, F. Benimetskiy, T. Ivanova, E. Khestanova, S. Kiriushechkina, A. Vakulenko, S. Guddala, M. Skolnick, V. M. Menon, D. Krizhanovskii, A. Alu, A. Samusev, and A. Khanikaev, Nature Comm. 12, 4425 (2021)
• “All-optical nonreciprocity due to valley polarization pumping in transition metal dichalcogenides,” S. Guddala, Y. Kawaguchi, F. Komissarenko, S. Kiriushechkina, A. Vakulenko, K. Chen, A. Alù, V. M. Menon, A. B. Khanikaev, Nature Comm. 12, 3746 (2021)
• “Purcell effect of plasmonic surface lattice resonances and its influence on energy transfer,” R. Collison, J. B. Perez-Sanchez, M. Du, J. Trevino, J. Yuen-Zhou, S. O’Brien, and V. M. Menon, ACS Photonics 8, 2211 (2021).
• “Optical isolator based on chiral light-matter interactions in a ring resonator integrating a dichroic magneto-optical material,” Y. Kawaguchi, M. Li, K. Chen, V. M. Menon, A. Alu, and A. B. Khanikaev, Appl. Phys. Lett.  118, 241104 (2021)
• “Enhanced nonlinear interaction of polaritons via excitonic Rydberg states in monolayer WSe2,” J. Gu, V. Walther, L. Waldecker, D. Rhodes, A. Raja, J. C. Hone, T. F. Heinz, S. Kena-Cohen, T. Pohl and V. M. Menon, Nature Comm. 12, 2269 (2021)
• “Ultrafast Thermal Modification of Strong Coupling in an Organic Microcavity,” B. Liu, V. M. Menon and M. Sfeir, APL Photonics (2021)
• “Optical Valley Hall Effect of 2D Excitons in Hyperbolic Metamaterial,” S. Guddala, M. Khatoniar, N. Yama, W. Liu, G. S. Agarwal, and V. M. Menon, Optica (2021)
• “Spontaneous emission dynamics of Eu3+ ions coupled to hyperbolic metamaterials,” Appl. Phys. Lett. (2021)

     2020

• “Plasmonic enhancement of stability and brightness in organic light-emitting devices,”Michael A. Fusella, Renata Saramak, Rezlind Bushati, Vinod M. Menon, Michael S. Weaver, Nicholas J. Thompson & Julia J. Brown, Nature 585, 379–382(2020)
• “Damage-Free Atomic Layer Etch of WSe2: A Platform for Fabricating Clean Two-Dimensional Devices,” ACS Applied Materials, (2020)
• “Using Fourier-Plane Imaging Microscopy for Determining Transition-Dipole-Moment Orientations in Organic Light-Emitting Devices,” J. Kim, H. Zhao, S. Hou, M. Khatoniar, V. M. Menon, and S. R. Forrest
  Phys. Rev. Applied 14, 034048 (2020) 
• “Fluorescence Triggered by Radioactive β Decay in Optimized Hyperbolic Cavities,” J. Abad-Arredondo, F.J. García-Vidal, Q. Zhang, E. Khwaja, V.M. Menon, J. Grimm, and A.I. Fernández-Domínguez, Phys. Rev. Applied 14, 024084 (2020)
• “All-optical nonreciprocity due to valley polarization in transition metal dichalcogenides,” Y. Kawaguchi, S. Guddala, K. Chen, A. Lu, V. M. Menon and A. Khanikaev, arXiv:2007.14934
• “The role of long-lived excitons in the dynamics of strongly coupled molecular polaritons,” B. Liu, V. M. Menon, and M. Y. Sfeir, ACS Photonics 7, 2292-2301 (2020) 
• “Ultralong-range energy transport in a disordered organic semiconductor at room temperature via coherent exciton-polariton propagation,” Advanced Materials (2020) https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202002127
• “Room temperature single photon emitters in cubic boron nitride nanocrystals,” G. Lopez-Morales, A. Alamankly, S. Satpathy, N. Proscia, H. Jayakumar, V. Khabashesku, P. M. Ajayan, C. A. Meriles and V. M. Menon, Opt. Mat Express 10, 843 (2020)
• “Microcavity coupled emitters in hexagonal Boron Nitride,” N. Proscia, H. Jayakumar, X. Ge, G. Lopez-Morales, Z. Shotan, W. Zhou, C. A. Meriles, and V. M. Menon, Nanophotonics (2020), https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2020-0187

2019

• Chiral emission of electric dipoles coupled to optical hyperbolic materials,” W. Liu, V. M. Menon, S. Gao and G. S. Agarwal, Phys. Rev. B 100, 245428 (2019)
• “A room temperature polariton LED based on monolayer WS2,” J. Gu, B. Chakraborty, M. Khatoniyar, and V. M. Menon, Nature Nanotechnology
• “Coupling of deterministically activated quantum emitters in hBN to plasmonic surface lattice resonances,” Nanophotonics
• “Propagating hybrid Tamm exciton polaritons in organic microcavity,” B. Liu, R. Wu, and V. M. Menon, J. Phys. Chem C
• “Guiding of visible photons at the angstrom thickness limit,” X. Zhang, C De-Eknamkul, J. Gu, A. Boehmke, V. M. Menon, J. Khurgin and E. Cubukcu, Nature Nanotechnology
• “Direct observation of gate tunable dark trions in monolayer WSe2,” Z. Li et al., Nano Lett.
• “Polariton chemistry: Thinking inside the (photon) box,” J. Yuen-Zhou, and V. M. Menon PNAS,
• “Valley selective optical control of excitons in 2D materials using chiral metasurface,” S. Guddala, R. Bushati, M. Li, A. Khanikaev, and V. M. Menon, Opt. Mat. Express 9, 536 (2019) – Invited Article.

2018

• “Control of strong light-matter interaction in monolayer WS₂ through electric field gating,” B. Chakraborty, J. Gu, M. Khatoniyar, Z. Sun, R. Bushati, A. Bohemke, R. Koots and V. M. Menon, Nano. Lett. 18, 6455 (2018)
• “Near deterministic activation of room temperature quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride,” N. V. Proscia, Z. Shotan, H. Jayakumar, P. Reddy, A. Alkauskas, M. Doherty, C. A. Meriles, and V. M. Menon,  Optica 5, 1128 (2018)
• “Interacting polariton fluids in a monolayer of tungsten disulfide,” F. Brachati, A. Fieramosca, S. Hafezian, J. Gu. B. Chakraborty, D. Ballarini, L. Martinu, V. M. menon, D. Sanvitto, S. Kena-Cohen,  Nature Nanotech 13, 906 (2018).
• “Long range resonant energy transfer using optical topological transitions in metamaterials,” R. Deshmukh, S-A. Biehs, E. Khwaja, G.S. Agarwal, and V. M. Menon ACS Photonics 5, 2737(2018)
• “Theory of polariton long range excitation energy transfer,” M. Du, L. A. Martinez, R. F. Ribeiro, Z. Hu, V. M. Menon, J.Yuen-Zhou, ArXiv 1711.11576 (2017) Chem. Science (2018)
• “Directional emission of Rh 6G on silver grating,” K. Tanyi, S. Mashhadi, S. D. Bhattacharyya, T. Galfsky, V. Menon, E. Simmons, V. A. Podolskiy, N. Noginova, and M. A. Noginov, Opt. Lett. 43, 2668 (2018)

2017

• Dipole aligned energy transfer between excitons in two-dimensional TMDs and organic semiconductors, J. Gu, X. Liu, E-C Lin, Y-H. Lee, S. R. Forrest, and V. M. Menon, ACS Photonics (2017) DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b00730
• Optical control of room temperature valley polaritons, Z. Sun, J. Gu, A. Ghazaryan, Z. Shotan, C. R. Considine, M. Dollar, B. Chakraborty, X. Liu, P. Ghanemi, S. K-Cohen, and V. M. Menon, Nature Photonics 11, 491 (2017).
• Nonreciprocity and one-way topological transitions in hyperbolic metamaterials, A. Leviyev, B. Stein, A. Christofi, T. Galfsky, H. Krishnamoorthy, I. Kuskovsky, V. M. Menon and A. Khanikaev, APL Photonics 2, 076103 (2017).
• Photonic hypercrystals for control of light matter interactions, T. Glafsky, J. Gu, E. Narimanov and V. M. Menon, PNAS 14, 5125 (2017)
• Photoresponse of an organic semiconductor-2D transition metal dichalcogenide heterojunction, X. Liu, J. Gu, K. Ding, D. Fan, X. Hu, Y-W Tsneg, Y-H. Lee, V. M. menon and S. R. Forrest, Nano Lett. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00695

2016

• Photoinduced modification of single photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride, Z. Shotan, H. Jayakumar, C. R. Considine et al. , ACS Photonics, DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00736
• Long range dipole-dipole interaction and anomalous Forster energy transfer across hyperbolic metamaterial, S.-A. Biehs, V. M. Menon and G. S. Agarwal, Phys. Rev. B 93, 245539 (2016).
• Broadband Enhancement of Spontaneous Emission in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors Using Photonic Hypercrystals, T. Galfsky, Z. Sun, C. R. Considine, C. Chou, W. Ko, Y. Lee, E. E. Narimanov and V. M. Menon, Nano Letters, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b01558, (2016)
• Microcavity enhanced second harmonic generation in 2D MoS2, J. K. Day, M. Chung, Y. Lee, and V. M. Menon, Optical Materials Express 6, (7), 2360 (2016)
• Ultrahigh Raman Enhancement on Monolayer MoS2, C. Muehlethaler, C. R. Considine, V. Menon, W. Lin, Y. Lee, and J. R. Lombardi, ACS Photonics, DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00213, June 08, (2016)
• Control of photo-induced voltages in plasmonic crystals via spin-orbit interactions, N. V. Proscia, M. Moocarme, R. Chang, I. Kretzschmar, V. M. Menon, and L. T. Vuong, Optics Express 24 (10), 10402 (2016)
• Surface plasmon polaritons in topological insulator nano-films and superlattices, Y. Deshko, L. Krusin-Elbaum, V. Menon, A. Khanikaev, J. Trevino, Optics Express 24 (7), 7398 (2016)
• Excitonic lasing in solution processed subwavelength nanosphere assemblies, K. Appavoo, X. Liu, V. M. Menon, and M. Sfier, Nano Lett., 16 (3), 2004 (2016)
• Roadmap on optical metamaterials, A. M. Urbas et al. Journal of Optics, 18, 090201 (2016)

2015

• Metal nanocluster light-emitting devices with suppressed parasitic emission and improved efficiency: exploring the impact of photophysical properties, T-W. Koh, A. M. Hiszpanski, M. Sezen, A. Naim, T. Galfsky, A. Trivedi, Y-H. Loo, V. M. Menon and B. P. Rand, Nanoscale 7, 9140 (2015)
• Synthesis and applications of monolayer semiconductors, (Invited) K-C Chiu, X-Q Zhang, X. Liu, V. M. Menon, Y-F Chen, J-M Wu, and Y-H Lee, IEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 51, 0600110 (2015)
•  Control of light-matter interaction in 2D atomic crystals using microcavities, (Invited) X. Liu and V. M. Menon, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 51, 0600308 (2015)
•  Preferential emission into epsilon-near-zero metamaterial, T. Galfsky, Z. Sun, Z. Jacob and V. M. Menon, Optical Materials Express 5, 2878 (2015).
•  Strong light-matter coupling in two-dimensional atomic crystals, X. Liu, T. Galfsky, Z. Sun, F. Xia, E-C. Lin, Y-H Lee, S. Kena-Cohen, and V. M. Menon, Nature Photonics 9, 30 (2015).
•  Active hyperbolic metamaterials: enhanced spontaneous emission and light extraction, T. Galfsky, H. N. S. Krishnamoorthy, W. Newman, E. E. Narimanov, Z. Jacob., and V. M. Menon, Optica 2, 62 (2015)

2014

•   All-optical electromagnetically induced transparency using one-dimensional coupled microcavities, A. Naweed, D. Goldberg and V. M. Menon, Optics Express 22, 18818 (2014).
•   Visualization of Exciton Transport in Ordered and Disordered Molecular Solids,” G. M. Akselrod, P. B. Deotare, N. J. Thompson, J. Lee, W. A. Tisdale, M. A. Baldo, V. M. Menon, and V. Bulovic, Nature Comm. 5, 3646 (2014)
•   Room temperature Frenkel-Wannier-Mott hybridization of degenerate excitons in a strongly coupled microcavity, M. Slootsky, X. Liu, V. M. Menon* and S. R. Forrest*, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 076401 (2014).

2013

•   Slow Light Enhanced Singlet Exciton Fission Solar Cells with a 126% Yield of Electrons per Photon,” N. J. Thompson, D. N. Congreve, D. Goldberg, V. M. Menon and M. A. Baldo, Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 263302(2013).
•   Formation of microcavity polaritons in ZnO nanoparticles, X. Liu, D. Goldberg, and V. M. Menon, Optics Express 21, 20620 (2013).
•  “Enhanced amplified spontaneous emission from colloidal quantum dots in all-dielectric monolithic microcavities,” D. Goldberg and V. M. Menon, Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 08119 (2013).
• “About the possibility of bistable dynamics in lasers with single-mode cavities,” V. Shuvayev, V. M. Menon, A. Lisyansky, and L. Deych, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 30, 79 (2013).

2012

•  “Topological transitions in metamaterials,” H. N. S. Krishnamoorthy, Z. Jacob, E. Narimanov, I. Kretzschmar, and V. M. Menon, Science 336, 205 (2012).
•   “Enhanced nonlinear response of metal nanocomposite based photonic crystals,” S. Husaini, H. Teng, and V. M. Menon, Appl. Phys. Lett. 101,111103 (2012).
•   “Probing Y-shaped DNA structure with time resolved FRET,” S. Chatterjee, J. B. Lee, N. Valappil, D. Luo, and V. M. Menon, Nanoscale 4, 1568 (2012).
•   “Flexible optics – Recent developments in molecular gels,” G. John, S. Jadhav, V. M. Menon, and V. T. John, Angew. Chem. 51, 1760 (2012).

2011

• “Resonant enhancement of magneto-optical polarization conversion in microdisk resonators,” L. Deych, C. Meriles, and V. M. Menon, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 241107 (2011).

• “Investigating the distance limit of metal nanoparticle based spectroscopic ruler,” S. Chatterjee, J. B. Lee, N. Valappil, D. Luo, and V. M. Menon, Biomedical Optics Express 2, 1727 (2011).
• “Plasmon resonance induced enhancement of reflection band in a one-dimensional metal nanocomposite photonic crystal,” S. Husaini, L. Deych and V. M. Menon, Optics Letters 38, 1368 (2011).
• “Integrated Photonics using Colloidal Quantum Dots,” V. M. Menon, SPIE Newsroom, August 2010, DOI: 10.1117/2.1201007.003063

2005-2010

• “Towards polaritonic logic circuits,” V. M. Menon, L. I . Deych, A. Lisyansky, Nature Photonics 4, 345 (2010).
• “Exciton Lattice polaritons in multiple quantum well based photonic crystals,” D. Goldberg, L. Deych, A. Lisyansky, Z. Shi, V. Tokranov, M. Yakimov, S. Oktyabrsky, and V. M. Menon, Nature Photonics 3, 662 (2009).
• “Integrated photonics using colloidal quantum dots,” V. M. Menon, S. Husaini, N. Okoye, and N. Valappil, Journal of Nanophotonics  3, 031608 (2009).
• “Luminescence from a Fibonacci photonic crystal,” V. Passias, Z Shi, N. Valappil, L. Deych, A. Lisyansky, and V. M. Menon,  Optics Express 17, 6636 (2009).
• “Time resolved and steady state luminescence properties of InGaP colloidal quantum dots,” S. Chatterjee, N. Valappil, and V. M. Menon, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 1133, AA07-18 (2009).
• “Organic photonic bandgap microcavities doped with semiconductor nanocrystals for room-temperature single photon sources on demand,”  S. G. Lukishova, L. J. Bissell, V. M. Menon, N. Valappil, M. A. Hahn, C. M. Evans, B. Zimmerman, T. D. Krauss, R. W. Boyd, C. R. Stroud,      Jr,,  Journal of Modern Optics 56, 167 (2009).
• “Lasing from quantum dots in a spin-coated flexible microcavity,” V. M. Menon, M. Luberto, N. Valappil, S. Chatterjee, Optics Express 16, 19535 (2008).
• “Solution processed microcavity structures with embedded quantum dots,” N. Valappil, M. Luberto, I. Zeylikovich, T. K. Gayen, J. Franco, B. B. Das, R. R. Alfano and V. M. Menon, Photonics and Nanostructures: Fundamentals and Applications 5, 184 (2007)
• “Control of spontaneous emission from colloidal quantum dots in a polymer microcavity,” V. M. Menon, N. Valappil, I. Zeylikovich, B. Das, T. Gayen and R. R. Alfano, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 959, M10-01 (2007).
• “Strong coupling and hybridization of Frenkel and Wannier-Mott excitons in an organic-inorganic optical microcavity,” R. J. Holmes, S. Kena-Cohen, V. M. Menon, and S. R. Forrest, Phys. Rev. B 74, 235211 (2006).
•   “Light induced symmetry breaking and related giant enhancement of nonlinear properties in CdZnTe:V crystals,” S. Shwartz, R. Weil, M. Segev, E. Lakin, E. Zolotoyabko, V. M. Menon, S. R. Forrest, and U. El-Hanany, Opt. Express 14, 9385 (2006).
•   “Photonic integration using asymmetric twin waveguide (ATG) technology – II. Devices,” V. M. Menon, F. Xia, and S. R. Forrest, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 11, 30-42 (2005).
•   “Photonic integration using asymmetric twin waveguide (ATG) technology – I. Concepts and Theory,” F. Xia, V. M. Menon, and S. R. Forrest, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 11, 17-29 (2005).