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Tunable Planar Focusing Based on Hyperbolic Phonon Polaritons in α‐MoO3

Yunpeng Qu, Na Chen, Hanchao Teng, Hai Hu, Jianzhe Sun, Renwen Yu, Debo Hu, Mengfei Xue, Chi Li, Bin Wu, Jianing Chen, Zhipei Sun, Mengkun Liu, Yunqi Liu, F. Javier García de Abajo, Qing Dai

Advanced Materials· Volume 34· Issue 23
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Abstract

Abstract Manipulation of the propagation and energy‐transport characteristics of subwavelength infrared (IR) light fields is critical for the application of nanophotonic devices in photocatalysis, biosensing, and thermal management. In this context, metamaterials are useful composite materials, although traditional metal‐based structures are constrained by their weak mid‐IR response, while their associated capabilities for optical propagation and focusing are limited by the size of attainable artificial optical structures and the poor performance of the available active means of control. Herein, a tunable planar focusing device operating in the mid‐IR region is reported by exploiting highly oriented in‐plane hyperbolic phonon polaritons in α‐MoO3. Specifically, an unprecedented change of effective focal length of polariton waves from 0.7 to 7.4 μm is demonstrated by the following three different means of control: the dimension of the device, the employed light frequency, and engineering of phonon–plasmon hybridization. The high confinement characteristics of phonon polaritons in α‐MoO3 permit the focal length and focal spot size to be reduced to 1/15 and 1/33 of the incident wavelength, respectively. In particular, the anisotropic phonon polaritons supported in α‐MoO3 are combined with tunable surface‐plasmon polaritons in graphene to realize in situ and dynamical control of the focusing performance, thus paving the way for phonon‐polariton‐based planar nanophotonic applications.
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NanomaterialsCompositesCatalysis & surfaces

OpenAlex topics: Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research · Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies · Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications

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Affiliations

CAS Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Materials and Devices CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience National Center for Nanoscience and Technology Beijing 100190 P. R. China

Sino‐Danish College University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China

School of Nanoscience and Technology University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences Key Laboratory of Organic Solids Institute of Chemistry Beijing 100190 P. R. China

ICFO‐Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology Castelldefels (Barcelona) 08860 Spain

Wenzhou Institute University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Wenzhou 325001 China

The Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China

School of Physical Sciences University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China

Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering Aalto University Espoo FI‐02150 Finland

QTF Centre of Excellence Department of Applied Physics Aalto University Aalto FI‐00076 Finland

Department of Physics and Astronomy Stony Brook University Stony Brook NY 11794 USA

ICREA‐Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats Passeig Lluís Companys 23 Barcelona 08010 Spain

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China · National Natural Science Foundation of China · Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality

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