Observation of directional leaky polaritons at anisotropic crystal interfaces

X Ni, G Carini, W Ma, EM Renzi, E Galiffi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Extreme anisotropy in some polaritonic materials enables light propagation with a
hyperbolic dispersion, leading to enhanced light-matter interactions and directional …

Visible-frequency hyperbolic plasmon polaritons in a natural van der Waals crystal

G Venturi, A Mancini, N Melchioni, S Chiodini… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Controlling light at subwavelength scales is crucial in nanophotonics. Hyperbolic polaritons,
supporting arbitrarily large wavevectors, enable extreme light confinement beyond the …

Layer-resolved absorption of light in arbitrarily anisotropic heterostructures

NC Passler, M Jeannin, A Paarmann - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We present a generalized formalism to describe the optical energy flow and spatially
resolved absorption in arbitrarily anisotropic layered structures. The algorithm is capable of …

Valley quantum interference modulated by hyperbolic shear polaritons

G Jia, J Luo, C Cui, R Kou, Y Tian, M Schubert - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Recently, symmetry-broken polaritons within low-symmetry crystals have triggered extensive
research interest since they present enhanced directionality of polariton propagation for …

Polarization-Dependent Strong and Weak Light-Matter Coupling in Aligned Perylene Diimide Thin Films

NJ Herrmann, M Hertzog, A Mischok… - ACS Applied Optical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Alignment of organic molecules in Fabry–Pérot microcavities can lead to increased light-
matter coupling and polarization-dependent formation of exciton–polaritons. So far, only a …

Optical Imaging of Ultrafast Phonon-Polariton Propagation through an Excitonic Sensor

SW Cheng, D Xu, H Su, JM Baxter, LN Holtzman… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) hosts phonon polaritons (PhP), hybrid light–matter states that
facilitate electromagnetic field confinement and exhibit long-range ballistic transport …

Use of transfer matrix method in the study of surface magnon polaritons via simulated attenuated total reflection measurements on the antiferromagnetic …

N Hale, I Simonsen, C Brüne, M Kildemo - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The surface magnon polaritons (SMPs) present in thin film antiferromagnet semiconductors
can be extremely confined, having most of their energy distributed within the magnetic …

On the limitations of using polarimetric radar sounding to infer the crystal orientation fabric of ice masses

NM Rathmann, DA Lilien, A Grinsted… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We introduce a transfer matrix model for radio‐wave propagation through layered
anisotropic ice that permits an arbitrary dielectric permittivity tensor in each layer. The model …

Spin-selective currents of Tamm polaritons

E Sedov, M Glazov, A Kavokin - Physical Review Applied, 2022 - APS
We propose an approach for the excitation of polariton Tamm states with a controllable
nontrivial topology. The Tamm polaritons emerge at the interface of two binary one …

Non-destructive characterization of silicon nanowires and nanowire coatings using mid-infrared spectroscopy

S Esfidani, DW Keefe, F Toor, TG Folland - Applied Physics Letters, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) have attracted much attention owing to their potential
applications in electronics and photonics, while remaining as a cost-effective material …