journal article·2021-05-25Open access

Near-Field Excited Archimedean-like Tiling Patterns in Phonon-Polaritonic Crystals

Jiong Yang, Zeb E. Krix, Sejeong Kim, Jianbo Tang, Mohannad Mayyas, Yifang Wang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Lu Hua Li, Alex R. Hamilton, Igor Aharonovich, Oleg P. Sushkov, Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

ACS Nano· Volume 15· Issue 5

Abstract

Phonon-polaritons (PhPs) arise from the strong coupling of photons to optical phonons. They offer light confinement and harnessing below the diffraction limit for applications including sensing, imaging, superlensing, and photonics-based communications. However, structures consisting of both suspended and supported hyperbolic materials on periodic dielectric substrates are yet to be explored. Here we investigate phonon-polaritonic crystals (PPCs) that incorporate hyperbolic hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) to a silicon-based photonic crystal. By using the near-field excitation in scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM), we resolved two types of repetitive local field distribution patterns resembling the Archimedean-like tiling on hBN-based PPCs, i.e., dipolar-like field distributions and highly dispersive PhP interference patterns. We demonstrate the tunability of PPC band structures by varying the thickness of hyperbolic materials, supported by numerical simulations. Lastly, we conducted scattering-type nanoIR spectroscopy to confirm the interaction of hBN with photonic crystals. The introduced PPCs will provide the base for fabricating essential subdiffraction components of advanced optical systems in the mid-IR range.
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OpenAlex topics: Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies · Photonic Crystals and Applications · Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research

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Affiliations

School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

School of Physics, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia

Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan

International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan

Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216, Australia

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia

Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia

Funding

Elemental Strategy Initiative, MEXT Japan · ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies

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