Ultrasensitive 2D Vermiculite Inorganic Liquid Crystals for Nonlinear Optical Activation

ACS Nano 2026

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Authors: Hefei Xi, Ziyang Huang, Jiarong Liu, X. L. Kang, Shengkai Chang, Yujie Sun, Rongjie Zhang, Bilu Liu
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c18498
Cited by: 1
References: 39

Abstract

Optical neural networks (ONNs) have emerged as promising architectures for vision tasks due to their inherent parallelism and potential low energy consumption. Currently, achieving reconfigurable nonlinear optical activation with high responsiveness remains challenging in ONNs. In this study, we propose a reconfigurable configuration utilizing two-dimensional (2D) material-based inorganic liquid crystal (LC) as an optical-to-optical nonlinear activator. The ultrasensitive electro-optical effect of 2D vermiculite (VMT) enables the proposed configuration, where the nonlinear activation is sensitively modulated by a small operational electric field in a range of

Fields of Study & Subjects

Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics Photonic Crystals and Applications Nonlinear Photonic Systems

Publication details

Journal / source
ACS Nano
Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Volume
20
Issue
2
Pages
2344–2352
Publication date
6 January 2026
Language
EN