Figure 1 | A light switch on the nanoscale. (IMAGE)

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Figure 1 | A light switch on the nanoscale.

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Figure 1 | A light switch on the nanoscale. Atomically thin WS2 is incorporated in an optical metasurface. The electrical tunability of excitons in the WS2 layer is leveraged to achieve strong modulation of a reflected beam of red light.

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Hoekstra, T., van de Groep, J.

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