Interface nano-optics with van der Waals polaritons

Q Zhang, G Hu, W Ma, P Li, A Krasnok, R Hillenbrand… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Polaritons are hybrid excitations of matter and photons. In recent years, polaritons in van der
Waals nanomaterials—known as van der Waals polaritons—have shown great promise to …

Hyperbolic metamaterials: fusing artificial structures to natural 2D materials

D Lee, S So, G Hu, M Kim, T Badloe, H Cho, J Kim… - ELight, 2022 - Springer
Optical metamaterials have presented an innovative method of manipulating light.
Hyperbolic metamaterials have an extremely high anisotropy with a hyperbolic dispersion …

Topological metamaterials

X Ni, S Yves, A Krasnok, A Alu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The topological properties of an object, associated with an integer called the topological
invariant, are global features that cannot change continuously but only through abrupt …

Ghost hyperbolic surface polaritons in bulk anisotropic crystals

W Ma, G Hu, D Hu, R Chen, T Sun, X Zhang, Q Dai… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Polaritons in anisotropic materials result in exotic optical features, which can provide
opportunities to control light at the nanoscale,,,,,,,,–. So far these polaritons have been …

Polariton panorama

DN Basov, A Asenjo-Garcia, PJ Schuck, X Zhu… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
In this brief review, we summarize and elaborate on some of the nomenclature of polaritonic
phenomena and systems as they appear in the literature on quantum materials and …

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 …

Real-space nanoimaging of hyperbolic shear polaritons in a monoclinic crystal

G Hu, W Ma, D Hu, J Wu, C Zheng, K Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Various optical crystals possess permittivity components of opposite signs along different
principal directions in the mid-infrared regime, exhibiting exotic anisotropic phonon …

Do**-driven topological polaritons in graphene/α-MoO3 heterostructures

H Hu, N Chen, H Teng, R Yu, Y Qu, J Sun… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Control over charge carrier density provides an efficient way to trigger phase transitions and
modulate the optoelectronic properties of materials. This approach can also be used to …

Hyperbolic shear polaritons in low-symmetry crystals

NC Passler, X Ni, G Hu, JR Matson, G Carini, M Wolf… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The lattice symmetry of a crystal is one of the most important factors in determining its
physical properties. Particularly, low-symmetry crystals offer powerful opportunities to control …

Giant optical anisotropy in transition metal dichalcogenides for next-generation photonics

GA Ermolaev, DV Grudinin, YV Stebunov… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Large optical anisotropy observed in a broad spectral range is of paramount importance for
efficient light manipulation in countless devices. Although a giant anisotropy has been …