MoTe2 as a natural hyperbolic material across the visible and the ultraviolet region

Abstract

Hyperbolic materials are of particular interest for the next generation of photonic and optoelectronic devices. Since artificial metamaterials are intrinsically limited by the size of their nanostructured components, there has been a hunt for natural hyperbolic materials in the last few years. In a first-principles work based on density-functional theory and many-body perturbation theory, we investigate the fundamental dielectric response of MoTe2 in monolayer, bilayer, and bulk form, and find that it is a natural type-II hyperbolic material with low losses between 3 and 6 eV. Going from the monolayer to the bulk, the energy window of hyperbolic dispersion is blue-shifted by a few tenths of an eV. We show that excitonic effects and optical anisotropy play a major role in the hyperbolic behavior of MoTe2. Our results confirm the potential of layered materials as hyperbolic media for opto-electronics, photonics, and nano-imaging applications.

arXiv comment10 pages, 5 figures

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