Efficiency of Launching Highly Confined Polaritons by Infrared Light Incident on a Hyperbolic Material

Siyuan Dai; Qiong Ma; Yafang Yang; Jeremy Rosenfeld; Michael D. Goldflam; Alex McLeod; Zhiyuan Sun; Trond I. Andersen; Zhe Fei; Mengkun Liu; Yinming Shao; Kenji Watanabe; Takashi Taniguchi; Mark Thiemens; Fritz Keilmann; Pablo Jarillo-Herrero; Michael M. Fogler; D. N. Basov

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01587

Efficiency of Launching Highly Confined Polaritons by Infrared Light Incident on a Hyperbolic Material

Siyuan Dai, Qiong Ma, Yafang Yang, Jeremy Rosenfeld, Michael D. Goldflam, Alex McLeod, Zhiyuan Sun, Trond I. Andersen, Zhe Fei, Mengkun Liu, Yinming Shao, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Mark Thiemens, Fritz Keilmann, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Michael M. Fogler, D. N. Basov

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We investigated phonon-polaritons in hexagonal boron nitride - a naturally hyperbolic van der Waals material - by means of the scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy. Real-space nanoimages we have obtained detail how the polaritons are launched when the light incident on a thin hexagonal boron nitride slab is scattered by various intrinsic and extrinsic inhomogeneities, including sample edges, metallic nanodisks deposited on its top surface, random defects, and surface impurities. The scanned tip of the near-field microscope is itself a polariton launcher whose efficiency proves to be superior to all the other types of polariton launchers we studied. Our work may inform future development of polaritonic nanodevices as well as fundamental studies of collective modes in van der Waals materials.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	5285-5290
Number of pages	6
Journal	Nano letters
Volume	17
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01587
State	Published - Sep 13 2017
Externally published	Yes

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This research is supported by the ONR under grant no. N00014-15-1-2671 and the AFOSR grant no. FA9550-15-1-0478. D.N.B. is an investigator in Quantum Materials funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s EPiQS Initiative through grant no. GBMF4533. P.J.-H. acknowledges support from AFOSR grant number FA9550-11-1-0225 and the Packard Fellowship program.

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© 2017 American Chemical Society.

Keywords

Polariton launching
hexagonal boron nitride
hyperbolic materials
nano-optics
van der Waals materials

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Dai, S., Ma, Q., Yang, Y., Rosenfeld, J., Goldflam, M. D., McLeod, A., Sun, Z., Andersen, T. I., Fei, Z., Liu, M., Shao, Y., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Thiemens, M., Keilmann, F., Jarillo-Herrero, P., Fogler, M. M., & Basov, D. N. (2017). Efficiency of Launching Highly Confined Polaritons by Infrared Light Incident on a Hyperbolic Material. Nano letters, 17(9), 5285-5290. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01587

Dai, S, Ma, Q, Yang, Y, Rosenfeld, J, Goldflam, MD, McLeod, A, Sun, Z, Andersen, TI, Fei, Z, Liu, M, Shao, Y, Watanabe, K, Taniguchi, T, Thiemens, M, Keilmann, F, Jarillo-Herrero, P, Fogler, MM & Basov, DN 2017, 'Efficiency of Launching Highly Confined Polaritons by Infrared Light Incident on a Hyperbolic Material', Nano letters, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 5285-5290. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01587

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