Photonics with hexagonal boron nitride

JD Caldwell, I Aharonovich, G Cassabois… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
For more than seven decades, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been employed as an
inert, thermally stable engineering ceramic; since 2010, it has also been used as the optimal …

Planar hyperbolic polaritons in 2D van der Waals materials

H Wang, A Kumar, S Dai, X Lin, Z Jacob, SH Oh… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Anisotropic planar polaritons-hybrid electromagnetic modes mediated by phonons,
plasmons, or excitons-in biaxial two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals crystals have attracted …

Configurable phonon polaritons in twisted α-MoO3

M Chen, X Lin, TH Dinh, Z Zheng, J Shen, Q Ma… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Moiré engineering is being intensively investigated as a method to tune the electronic,
magnetic and optical properties of twisted van der Waals materials. Advances in moiré …

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 …

Ultrafast and nanoscale energy transduction mechanisms and coupled thermal transport across interfaces

A Giri, SG Walton, J Tomko, N Bhatt, MJ Johnson… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The coupled interactions among the fundamental carriers of charge, heat, and
electromagnetic fields at interfaces and boundaries give rise to energetic processes that …

Infrared Permittivity of the Biaxial van der Waals Semiconductor α‐MoO3 from Near‐ and Far‐Field Correlative Studies

G Álvarez‐Pérez, TG Folland, I Errea… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The biaxial van der Waals semiconductor α‐phase molybdenum trioxide (α‐MoO3) has
recently received significant attention due to its ability to support highly anisotropic phonon …

Phonon-polaritonics: enabling powerful capabilities for infrared photonics

S Foteinopoulou, GCR Devarapu, GS Subramania… - …, 2019 - degruyter.com
Here, we review the progress and most recent advances in phonon-polaritonics, an
emerging and growing field that has brought about a range of powerful possibilities for mid …

Van der Waals thin films of WTe2 for natural hyperbolic plasmonic surfaces

C Wang, S Huang, Q Xing, Y Xie, C Song… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A hyperbolic plasmonic surface supports highly directional propagating polaritons with
extremely large density of states. Such plasmon polaritons have been realized in artificially …

Engineering the spectral and spatial dispersion of thermal emission via polariton–phonon strong coupling

G Lu, CR Gubbin, JR Nolen, T Folland, MJ Tadjer… - Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Strong coupling between optical modes can be implemented into nanophotonic design to
modify the energy–momentum dispersion relation. This approach offers potential avenues …

Refractive index-based control of hyperbolic phonon-polariton propagation

A Fali, ST White, TG Folland, M He, NA Aghamiri… - Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs) are generated when infrared photons couple to polar
optic phonons in anisotropic media, confining long-wavelength light to nanoscale volumes …