Edge-oriented and steerable hyperbolic polaritons in anisotropic van der Waals nanocavities.

ABSTRACT: Highly confined and low-loss polaritons are known to propagate isotropically over graphene and hexagonal boron nitride in the plane, leaving limited degrees of freedom in manipulating light at the nanoscale. The emerging family of biaxial van der Waals materials, such as α-MoO₃ and V₂O₅, support exotic polariton propagation, as their auxiliary optical axis is in the plane. Here, exploiting this strong in-plane anisotropy, we report edge-tailored hyperbolic polaritons in patterned α-MoO₃ nanocavities via real-space nanoimaging. We find that the angle between the edge orientation and the crystallographic direction significantly affects the optical response, and can serve as a key tuning parameter in tailoring the polaritonic patterns. By shaping α-

SUBMITTER: Dai Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7705012 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature