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We investigated emission and propagation of polaritons in a two dimensional van der Waals material hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Our specific emphasis in this work is on hyperbolic phonon polariton emission that we investigated by means of…

Exciton-polaritons provide a versatile platform for the study of a wide range of phenomena, including polariton lasers, topological polaritons, and bosonic condensation. Transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers host excitons with large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Lukas Krelle , Lukas Husel , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ismail Bilgin , Alexander Högele , Farsane Tabataba-Vakili

Transport of elementary excitations is a fundamental property of 2D semiconductors, important for wide-ranging emergent phenomena and device applications. While exciton transport reported in 2D materials barely exceeds 1-2 $\mu$m, coherent…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-03 Xin Xie , Qiuyang Li , Chenxi Liu , Yuze Liu , Chulwon Lee , Kai Sun , Hui Deng

Polaritons are light-matter quasiparticles that govern the optical response of quantum materials and enable their nanophotonic applications. We have studied a new type of polaritons arising in magnetized graphene encapsulated in hexagonal…

Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites have emerged as very promising materials for photonic applications, thanks to the great synthetic versatility that allows to tune their optical properties. In the two-dimensional (2D) crystalline form,…

The hyperbolic dispersion relation of phonon-polaritons (PhPol) provides high-momentum states, highly directional propagation, subdiffractional confinement, large optical density of states, and enhanced light-matter interactions. In this…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-12 A. Bergeron , C. Gradziel , R. Leonelli , S. Francoeur

Polaritons are a hybrid class of quasiparticles originating from the strong and resonant coupling between light and matter excitations. Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in novel polariton types, arising from directional,…

Light properties in the mid-infrared can be controlled at a deep subwavelength scale using hyperbolic phonons-polaritons (HPPs) of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). While propagating as waveguided modes HPPs can concentrate the electric field…

Layered two-dimensional (2D) materials have revolutionized how we approach light-matter interactions, offering unprecedented optical and electronic properties with the potential for vertical heterostructures and manipulation of spin-valley…

The confinement of electromagnetic radiation to subwavelength scales relies on strong light-matter interactions. In the infrared (IR) and terahertz (THz) spectral ranges, phonon polaritons are commonly employed to achieve extremely…

Polaritonic modes in two-dimensional van der Waals materials display short in-plane wavelengths compared with light in free space. As interesting as this may look from both fundamental and applied viewpoints, such large confinement is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-10 Eduardo J. C. Dias , F. Javier García de Abajo

New techniques for probing hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPP) in 2D materials will support the development of the emerging technologies in this field. Previous reports have shown that it is possible for WSe2 monolayers in contact with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Jacob J. S. Viner , Liam P. McDonnell , Pasqual Rivera , Xiaodong Xu , David C. Smith

Twisted hexagonal boron nitride (thBN) exhibits emergent ferroelectricity due to the formation of moir\'e superlattices with alternating AB and BA domains. These domains possess electric dipoles, leading to a periodic electrostatic…

Polaritonic crystals - periodic structures where the hybrid light-matter waves called polaritons can form Bloch states - promise a deeply subdiffractional nanolight manipulation and enhanced light-matter interaction. In particular,…

Ion transport through nanopores permeates through many areas of science and technology, from cell behavior to sensing and separation to catalysis and batteries. Two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-19 Subin Sahu , Michael Zwolak

The scientific community has witnessed tremendous expansion of research on layered (i.e. two-dimensional, 2D) materials, with increasing recent focus on applications to photonics. Layered materials are particularly exciting for manipulating…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-17 Akshay Singh , Seong Soon Jo , Yifei Li , Changming Wu , Mo Li , R. Jaramillo

Uniaxial materials whose axial and tangential permittivities have opposite signs are referred to as indefinite or hyperbolic media. In such materials light propagation is unusual, leading to novel and often non-intuitive optical phenomena.…

Phonon polaritons (PhPs) are hybrid light-matter modes. We investigate them in two-dimensional (2D) materials with twisted moir\'{e} structures, revealing that the moir\'{e} potential creates a new class of `moir\'{e} PhPs'. These exhibit a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Hao Shi , Chu Li , Ding Pan , Xi Dai

We propose a macroscopic theory of optical phonons, Fr{\"o}hlich polarons, and exciton-polarons in two-dimensional (2D) polar crystalline monolayers. Our theory extends the classical macroscopic formulation of the electron-phonon problem in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 V. Shahnazaryan , A. Kudlis , I. V. Tokatly

The interest in two-dimensional and layered materials continues to expand, driven by the compelling properties of individual atomic layers that can be stacked and/or twisted into synthetic heterostructures. The plethora of electronic…