Extreme light confinement and control in low-symmetry phonon-polaritonic crystals

E Galiffi, G Carini, X Ni, G Álvarez-Pérez… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Polaritons are a hybrid class of quasiparticles originating from the strong and resonant
coupling between light and matter excitations. Recent years have witnessed a surge of …

Gate-tunable negative refraction of mid-infrared polaritons

H Hu, N Chen, H Teng, R Yu, M Xue, K Chen, Y **ao… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Negative refraction provides a platform to manipulate mid-infrared and terahertz radiation for
molecular sensing and thermal emission applications. However, its implementation based …

Optical properties and polaritons of low symmetry 2D materials

S Huang, C Wang, Y **e, B Yu, H Yan - Photonics Insights, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Low symmetry 2D materials with intrinsic in-plane anisotropic optical properties and high
tunability provide a promising platform to explore and manipulate light–matter interactions …

Steering and cloaking of hyperbolic polaritons at deep-subwavelength scales

H Teng, N Chen, H Hu, FJ García de Abajo… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Polaritons are well-established carriers of light, electrical signals, and even heat at the
nanoscale in the setting of on-chip devices. However, the goal of achieving practical …

Nonlocal acoustic moiré hyperbolic metasurfaces

C Han, S Fan, C Li, LQ Chen, T Yang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of the topological transition in twisted bilayer (tBL) materials has attracted
considerable attention in nano‐optics. In the analogue of acoustics, however, no such …

Negative reflection of nanoscale-confined polaritons in a low-loss natural medium

G Álvarez-Pérez, J Duan, J Taboada-Gutiérrez… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Negative reflection occurs when light is reflected toward the same side of the normal to the
boundary from which it is incident. This exotic optical phenomenon is not only yet to be …

Gate-Tuning Hybrid Polaritons in Twisted α-MoO3/Graphene Heterostructures

Z Zhou, R Song, J Xu, X Ni, Z Dang, Z Zhao, J Quan… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Modulating anisotropic phonon polaritons (PhPs) can open new avenues in infrared
nanophotonics. Promising PhP dispersion engineering through polariton hybridization has …

Molding broadband dispersion in twisted trilayer hyperbolic polaritonic surfaces

C Zheng, G Hu, X Liu, X Kong, L Wang, CW Qiu - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent advancement in twisted layered metasurfaces can be employed to control the
nanoscale flow of light, including the exotic hyperbolic-to-elliptic topological transitions in …

Monolithically structured van der Waals materials for volume-polariton refraction and focusing

Y Wu, J Liu, W Yu, T Zhang, H Mu, G Si, Z Cui, S Lin… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Polaritons, hybrid light and matter waves, offer a platform for subwavelength on-chip light
manipulation. Recent works on planar refraction and focusing of polaritons all rely on …

Two-dimensional natural hyperbolic materials: from polaritons modulation to applications

G Jia, J Luo, H Wang, Q Ma, Q Liu, H Dai, R Asgari - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Natural hyperbolic materials (HMs) in two dimensions (2D) have an extraordinarily high
anisotropy and a hyperbolic dispersion relation. Some of them can even sustain hyperbolic …