Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials

Y Wu, J Duan, W Ma, Q Ou, P Li… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Polaritons, originating from the interactions between photons and material excitations, have
attracted attention because of their strong field compression and deeply subdiffractional …

Nanophotonic biosensors harnessing van der Waals materials

SH Oh, H Altug, X **, T Low, SJ Koester… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Low-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) materials can harness tightly confined polaritonic
waves to deliver unique advantages for nanophotonic biosensing. The reduced …

[HTML][HTML] Graphene nanoribbons: Current status and challenges as quasi-one-dimensional nanomaterials

C Tian, W Miao, L Zhao, J Wang - Reviews in Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
The electronic structure of quasi-one-dimensional graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) is closely
related to their width, boundary configuration and heteroatomic do** because of the …

Real-space observation of ultraconfined in-plane anisotropic acoustic terahertz plasmon polaritons

S Chen, PL Leng, A Konečná, E Modin… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Thin layers of in-plane anisotropic materials can support ultraconfined polaritons, whose
wavelengths depend on the propagation direction. Such polaritons hold potential for the …

Polaritons in van der Waals heterostructures

X Guo, W Lyu, T Chen, Y Luo, C Wu, B Yang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D monolayers supporting a wide variety of highly confined plasmons, phonon
polaritons, and exciton polaritons can be vertically stacked in van der Waals …

The magical photoelectric and optoelectronic properties of graphene nanoribbons and their applications

W Miao, L Wang, X Mu, J Wang - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Quasi-one-dimensional graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have atomically accurate tunability
of the electronic properties. Because of the difference in length, width, boundary type and …

Perovskite nanowires-based graphene plasmonic waveguides with low loss and low gain threshold

J Zhang, Z Guan, K Ma, D Teng - Diamond and Related Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
We designed a perovskite nanowire-based graphene plasmonic waveguide, where the
perovskite nanowire is located on the graphene-insulator-metal (GIM) platform. The finite …

Near-field probing of image phonon-polaritons in hexagonal boron nitride on gold crystals

SG Menabde, S Boroviks, J Ahn, JT Heiden… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Near-field map** has been widely used to study hyperbolic phonon-polaritons in van der
Waals crystals. However, an accurate measurement of the polaritonic loss remains …

Nanostructure-enhanced infrared spectroscopy

T Tanaka, T Yano, R Kato - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
While infrared spectroscopy is a powerful technique that provides molecular information
such as chemical constituents and chemical structures of analytes, it suffers from low …

Low‐Loss Anisotropic Image Polaritons in van der Waals Crystal α‐MoO3

SG Menabde, J Jahng, S Boroviks… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Orthorhombic molybdenum trioxide (α‐MoO3), a newly discovered polaritonic van der Waals
crystal, is attracting significant attention due to its strongly anisotropic mid‐infrared phonon …