Surface plasmon plays an important role in surface catalysis reactions, and thus the tuning of plasmon on metal nanostructures and the extension of plasmon induced surface catalysis reactions have become important issues.
Toward the evolution of integrated optoelectronic circuits, it is vital matter to realize 2D optical waveguide at micro/nanoscale. However, due to the waveguiding principle of the traditional dielectric waveguide, the transverse and longitudinal dimensions cannot be greatly reduced, thus the size of photonic apparatus is far from reaching the size level for the microelectronic device. Therefore, it is difficult to achieve a high‐level hybrid integration of integrated optical path and microelectronic circuit. However, the organic crystals with polygonal structure and hierarchical structure as the medium also can form optical waveguide by confining photons/electrons at the micro/nanoscale along different directions, and these organic microcrystals can be well applied into the ultracompact optoelectronic devices. Herein, the fabrication of organic crystals as the medium of 2D optical waveguide is briefly introduced, as well as the 2D optical waveguide phenomenon existing in these polygonal and hierarchical microcrystals. Moreover, a conclusion is drawn and expectations are expressed for the 2D optical waveguide based on organic microstructure in the near future.
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