Unidirectional ray polaritons in twisted asymmetric stacks.
Journal
Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
19 Oct 2024
19 Oct 2024
Historique:
received:
28
05
2024
accepted:
20
09
2024
medline:
20
10
2024
pubmed:
20
10
2024
entrez:
19
10
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The vast repository of van der Waals (vdW) materials supporting polaritons offers numerous possibilities to tailor electromagnetic waves at the nanoscale. The development of twistoptics-the modulation of the optical properties by twisting stacks of vdW materials-enables directional propagation of phonon polaritons (PhPs) along a single spatial direction, known as canalization. Here we demonstrate a complementary type of directional propagation of polaritons by reporting the visualization of unidirectional ray polaritons (URPs). They arise naturally in twisted hyperbolic stacks with very different thicknesses of their constituents, demonstrated for homostructures of
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pubmed: 39426947
doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52750-3
pii: 10.1038/s41467-024-52750-3
doi:
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Journal Article
Langues
eng
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IM
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© 2024. The Author(s).
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