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Abstract
Surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs) in polar dielectrics offer new opportunities for infrared nanophotonics. However, bulk SPhPs inherently propagate isotropically with limited photon confinement, and how to collectively realize ultralarge confinement, in-plane hyperbolicity, and unidirectional propagation remains elusive. Here, we report an approach to solve the aforementioned issues of bulk SPhPs in one go by constructing a heterostructural interface between biaxial van der Waals material (e.g., α-MoO3) and bulk polar dielectric (e.g., SiC, AlN, and GaN). Because of anisotropy-oriented mode couplings, the hybridized SPhPs with a large confinement factor (>100) show in-plane hyperbolicity that has been switched to the orthogonal direction as compared to that in natural α-MoO3. More interestingly, this proof of concept allows steerable and unidirectional polariton excitation by suspending α-MoO3 on patterned SiC air cavities. Our finding exemplifies a generalizable framework to manipulate the flow of nanolight in many other hybrid systems consisting of anisotropic materials and polar dielectrics.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 3112-3119 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Nano Letters |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 25 Mar 2021 |
Keywords
- in-plane hyperbolicity
- nanocavities
- phonon polaritons
- polar crystals
- van der Waals materials
Projects
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ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-energy Electronics Technologies
Fuhrer, M. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Bao, Q. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Culcer, D. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Davis, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Davis, J. A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Hamilton, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Helmerson, K. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Klochan, O. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Medhekar, N. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Ostrovskaya, E. A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Parish, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Schiffrin, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Seidel, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Sushkov, O. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Valanoor, N. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Wang, X. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Galitskiy, V. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Gurarie, V. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Hannon, J. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Höfling, S. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Hone, J. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Rule, K. C. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Krausz, F. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Littlewood, P. (Partner Investigator (PI)), MacDonald, A. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Neto, A. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Oezyilmaz, B. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Paglione, J. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Phillips, W. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Spielman, I. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Tadich, A. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Xue, Q. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Cole, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Perali, A. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Neilson, D. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Sek, G. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Gaston, N. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Hodgkiss, J. M. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Tang, M. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Karel, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Nguyen, T.-L. (Project Manager), Adam, S. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Granville, S. (Partner Investigator (PI)), Kumar, P. V. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Daeneke, T. (Chief Investigator (CI))
Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University – Internal School Contribution, Monash University – Internal Department Contribution, Monash University – Internal Faculty Contribution, Monash University – Internal University Contribution, University of Wollongong, University of Queensland , Tsinghua University, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australian National University (ANU), RMIT University, Swinburne University of Technology
29/06/17 → 28/06/24
Project: Research