Title
Ultra-confined mid-infrared resonant phonon polaritons in van der Waals nanostructures
Date Issued
15 June 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Harvard University
Publisher(s)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Abstract
Hexagonal boron nitride has been proposed as an excellent candidate to achieve subwavelength infrared light manipulation owing to its polar lattice structure, enabling excitation of low-loss phonon polaritons with hyperbolic dispersion. We show that strongly subwavelength hexagonal boron nitride planar nanostructures can exhibit ultra-confined resonances and local field enhancement. We investigate strong light-matter interaction in these nanoscale structures via photo-induced force microscopy, scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, with excellent agreement with numerical simulations. We design optical nano-dipole antennas and directly image the fields when bright- or dark-mode resonances are excited. These modes are deep subwavelength, and strikingly, they can be supported by arbitrarily small structures. We believe that phonon polaritons in hexagonal boron nitride can play for infrared light a role similar to that of plasmons in noble metals at visible frequency, paving the way for a new class of efficient and highly miniaturized nanophotonic devices.
Volume
4
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias naturales
Física y Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85049170039
PubMed ID
Source
Science Advances
ISSN of the container
23752548
Sponsor(s)
This work was performed, in part, at the Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS), a member of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI), which is supported by the NSF under award no. 1541959. CNS is a part of Harvard University. This work was supported by the NSF EFRI 2-DARE program through grant no. 1542807. M.T. acknowledges the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant no. 168545).
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