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Actively tuning anisotropic light-matter interaction in biaxial hyperbolic material $\alpha$-MoO$_3$ using phase change material VO$_2$ and graphene

Applied Physics 2022-06-10 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

Anisotropic hyperbolic phonon polaritons (PhPs) in natural biaxial hyperbolic material MoO3_3 has opened up new avenues for mid-infrared nanophotonics, while active tunability of α\alpha-MoO3_3 PhPs is still an urgent problem needing to be solved.In this study, we present a theoretical demonstration of actively tuning α\alpha-MoO3_3 PhPs using phase change material VO2_2 and graphene. It is observed that α\alpha-MoO3_3 PhPs are greatly depending on the propagation plane angle of PhPs. The metal-to-insulator phase transition of VO2_2 has a significant effect on the hybridization PhPs of the α\alpha-MoO3_3/VO2_2 structure and allows to obtain an actively tunable α\alpha-MoO3_3 PhPs, which is especially obvious when the propagation plane angle of PhPs is 90.

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@article{arxiv.2206.04534,
  title  = {Actively tuning anisotropic light-matter interaction in biaxial hyperbolic material $\alpha$-MoO$_3$ using phase change material VO$_2$ and graphene},
  author = {Kun Zhou and Yang Hu and Xiaoxing Zhong and Xiaohu Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.04534},
  year   = {2022}
}