Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

The necessity for the development of highly sensitive and selective detection techniques for
the investigation of biomolecules are inevitable. Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) based …

Conspectus In recent years, the possibility to induce chemical transformations by using
tunable plasmonic modes has opened the question of whether we can control or create …

Tailoring light-matter interaction is essential to realize nanophotonic components. It can be
achieved with surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs), an excitation of photons coupled with …

Hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs) are generated when infrared photons couple to polar
optic phonons in anisotropic media, confining long-wavelength light to nanoscale volumes …

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) hosts long-lived phonon polaritons, yielding a strong mid-
infrared (mid-IR) electric field enhancement and concentration on the nanometer scale. It is …

Anisotropy has been a key property employed in the design of optical components for
hundreds of years. However, in recent years there has been growing interest in polaritons …

The long free-space wavelengths associated with the mid-to far-infrared spectral range
impose significant limitations on the form factor of associated optic and electro-optic …

Hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs) are stimulated by coupling infrared (IR) photons with
the polar lattice vibrations. Such HPhPs offer low‐loss, highly confined light propagation at …

In recent years, there has been significant fundamental research into surface phonon
polaritons, owing to their ability to compress light to extremely small dimensions, low losses …