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The in-plane negative refraction of high-momentum (i.e., high-k) photonic modes could enable many applications such as imaging and hyperlensing in a planar platform at deep-subwavelength scales. However, its practical implementation in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-05-04 Qiaolu Chen , Yihao Yang , Li Zhang , Jialin Chen , Xiao Lin , Rujiang Li , Zuojia Wang , Baile Zhang , Hongsheng Chen

Conventional optical components are limited to size-scales much larger than the wavelength of light, as changes in the amplitude, phase and polarization of the electromagnetic fields are accrued gradually along an optical path. However,…

Light-matter coupling in excitonic materials has been the subject of intense investigation due to emergence of new excitonic materials. Two-dimensional layered hybrid organic/inorganic perovskites (2D HOIPs) support strongly bound excitons…

The discovery of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDs) has promised next-generation photonics and optoelectronics applications, particularly in the realm of nanophotonics. Arguably, the most crucial fundamental…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-22 Kwang Jin Lee , Wei Xin , Chunhao Fann , Xinli Ma , Fei Xing , Jing Liu , Jihua Zhang , Mohamed Elkabbash , Chunlei Guo

Super-high-\k{appa} materials that exhibit exceptionally high dielectric permittivity are recognized as potential candidates for a wide range of next-generation photonic and electronic devices. Generally, the high dielectricity for…

The electronic structure and functionality of 2D materials is highly sensitive to structural morphology, opening the possibility for manipulating material properties, but also making predictable and reproducible functionality challenging.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Prakriti P. Joshi , Ruiyu Li , Joseph L. Spellberg , Liangbo Liang , Sarah B. King

Hyperbolic (or indefinite) materials have attracted significant attention due to their unique capabilities for engineering electromagnetic space and controlling light propagation. A current challenge is to find a hyperbolic material with…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-26 Shan Guan , Shao Ying Huang , Yugui Yao , Shengyuan A. Yang

Hyperbolic polaritons are conventionally associated with structural anisotropy or phononic Reststrahlen bands. Here, we predict a new class of hyperbolic polaritons arising from magnetic-field-induced cyclotron motion of charge carriers.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Zijian Zhou , Ran Jing , Heng Wang , Lukas Wehmeier , Mengkun Liu , Bing Cheng

We study the electromagnetic response of two- and quasi-two-dimensional hyperbolic materials, on which a simple dipole source can excite a well-confined and tunable surface plasmon polariton (SPP). The analysis is based on the Green's…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-06-08 S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj , Tony Low , Andrei Nemilentsau , George W. Hanson

The emergence of two-dimensional crystals has revolutionized modern solid-state physics. From a fundamental point of view, the enhancement of charge carrier correlations has sparked enormous research activities in the transport- and quantum…

Recent advances in twistronics of low-dimensional materials, such as bilayer graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides, have enabled a plethora of unusual phenomena associated with moir\'e physics. However, several of these effects…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-18 Guangwei Hu , Alex Krasnok , Yarden Mazor , Cheng-Wei Qiu , Andrea Alù

Polaritonic devices exploit the coherent coupling between excitonic and photonic degrees of freedom to perform highly nonlinear operations with low input powers. Most of the current results exploit excitons in epitaxially grown quantum…

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

We have investigated the spectrum of two-dimensional (2D) plasmon polaritons over the full range of magnetic fields. In our study, we investigate a disk-shaped two-dimensional electron system (2DES) with a metallic gate on the backside of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 I. V. Andreev , V. M. Muravev , N. D. Semenov , A. A. Zabolotnykh , I. V. Kukushkin

In this work we study theoretically the axial spectral asymmetry of a 1D periodic multilayer systems composed by hybrid two-layers (isotropic/anisotropic) and for photon energies close to the electronic energy gaps of semiconductors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-07 Andrea D'Andrea , Norberto Tomassini

Hyperbolic metamaterials (HMM) are artificially engineered materials that are congenial for light-matter interaction studies and nanophotonic applications with the hyperbolic dispersion of light propagating through them, which offers a…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-13 Amitrajit Nag , Jaydeep K. Basu

As one of the most fundamental optical phenomena, refraction between isotropic media is characterized by light bending towards the normal to the boundary when passing from a low- to a high-refractive-index medium. However, in anisotropic…

Molecular polaritons are the optical excitations which emerge when molecular transitions interact strongly with confined electromagnetic fields. Increasing interest in the hybrid molecular-photonic materials that host these excitations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-26 Raphael F. Ribeiro , Luis A. Martínez-Martínez , Matthew Du , Jorge Campos-Gonzalez-Angulo , Joel Yuen-Zhou

Photonic hyper-crystals combine the most interesting features of hyperbolic metamaterials and photonic crystals. Since the dispersion law of extraordinary photons in hyperbolic metamaterials does not exhibit the usual diffraction limit,…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-27 Igor I. Smolyaninov

Crystal quartz is a well-known anisotropic medium with optically active phonons in the THz region where hyperbolic phonon-polaritons can be excited. Here, we use this material to illustrate how the behavior of bulk and surface hyperbolic…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-12 Rair Macêdo , Thomas Dumelow , Robert E. Camley , Robert L. Stamps