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most citedOptical nano-imaging of gate-tuneable graphene plasmons

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physics.optics2025★ 249 cited

Broad Spectral Tuning of Ultra-Low Loss Polaritons in a van der Waals Crystal by Intercalation

Javier Taboada-Gutiérrez, Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez, Jiahua Duan +17

Phonon polaritons (PhPs) -- light coupled to lattice vibrations -- in polar van der Waals (vdW) crystals are promising candidates for controlling the flow of energy at the nanoscal…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Computational refocusing in phase-resolved confocal microscopy

Martin Schnell, Melanie King, Sam Buercklin +3

We demonstrate numerical refocusing in coherent confocal laser scanning microscopy based on synthetic optical holography. This physics-based approach implements a computational pro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 24 cited

Tailoring Photoluminescence by Strain-Engineering in Layered Perovskite Flakes

Davide Spirito, María Barra-Burillo, Francesco Calavalle +6

Strain is an effective strategy to modulate the optoelectronic properties of 2D materials, but it has been almost unexplored in layered hybrid organic-inorganic metal halide perovs…

cond-mat.supr-con2024★ 38 cited

Percolating Superconductivity in Air-Stable Organic-Ion Intercalated MoS2

Jose M. Pereira, Daniel Tezze, Iris Niehues +12

When doped into a certain range of charge carrier concentrations, MoS2 departs from its pristine semiconducting character to become a strongly correlated material characterized by…

physics.optics2023★ 15 cited

Probing optical anapoles with fast electron beams

Carlos Maciel-Escudero, Andrew B. Yankovich, Battulga Munkhbat +5

Optical anapoles are intriguing charge-current distributions characterized by a strong suppression of electromagnetic radiation. They originate from the destructive interference of…

physics.optics2023★ 19 cited

Dual-band coupling between nanoscale polaritons and vibrational and electronic excitations in molecules

A. Bylinkin, F. Calavalle, M. Barra-Burillo +13

Strong coupling (SC) between light and matter excitations such as excitons and molecular vibrations bear intriguing potential for controlling chemical reactivity, conductivity or p…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 14 cited

Transition from acoustic plasmon to electronic sound in graphene

David Barcons Ruiz, Niels C. H. Hesp, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux +10

Fermi liquids respond differently to perturbations depending on whether their frequency is larger (collisionless regime) or smaller (hydrodynamic regime) than the inter-particle co…

physics.optics2022

Negative reflection of polaritons at the nanoscale in a low-loss natural medium

Gonzalo Alvarez-Perez, Jiahua Duan, Javier Taboada-Gutierrez +10

Negative reflection occurs when light is reflected towards the same side of the normal to the boundary from which it is incident. This exotic optical phenomenon, which provides a n…

physics.optics2021

Probing the electromagnetic response of dielectric antennas by vortex electron beams

Andrea Konecna, Mikolaj K. Schmidt, Rainer Hillenbrand +1

Focused beams of electrons, which act as both sources, and sensors of electric fields, can be used to characterise the electric response of complex photonic systems by locally prob…

physics.optics2021★ 4 cited

Real-space nanoimaging of THz polaritons in the topological insulator Bi2Se3

Shu Chen, Andrei Bylinkin, Zhengtianye Wang +6

Plasmon polaritons in topological insulators attract attention from a fundamental perspective and for potential THz photonic applications. Although polaritons have been observed by…

physics.optics2021★ 90 cited

THz Near-Field Imaging of Extreme Subwavelength Metal Structures

Xinzhong Chen, Xiao Liu, Xiangdong Guo +15

Modern scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) has become an indispensable tool in material research. However, as the s-SNOM technique marches into the far-…

physics.optics2021★ 43 cited

Enhanced Light-Matter Interaction in B-10 Monoisotopic Boron Nitride Infrared Nanoresonators

M. Autore, I. Dolado, P. Li +10

Phonon-polaritons, mixed excitations of light coupled to lattice vibrations (phonons), are emerging as a powerful platform for nanophotonic applications. This is because of their a…

physics.optics2021

Focusing of in-plane hyperbolic polaritons in van der Waals crystals with tailored infrared nanoantennas

Javier Martín-Sánchez, Jiahua Duan, Javier Taboada-Gutiérrez +9

Phonon polaritons (PhPs),light coupled to lattice vibrations,with in-plane hyperbolic dispersion exhibit ray-like propagation with large wavevectors and enhanced density of optical…

physics.optics2021

Planar nano-optics in anisotropic media: anomalous refraction and diffraction-free lensing of highly confined polaritons

J. Duan, G. Álvarez-Pérez, A. I. F. Tresguerres-Mata +13

As one of the most fundamental optical phenomena, refraction between isotropic media is characterized by light bending towards the normal to the boundary when passing from a low- t…

physics.optics2021★ 77 cited

Microcavity phonon polaritons from weak to ultrastrong phonon-photon coupling

Maria Barra-Burillo, Unai Muniain, Sara Catalano +6

Strong coupling between molecular vibrations and microcavity modes has been demonstrated to modify physical and chemical properties of the molecular material. Here, we study the mu…

physics.optics2020★ 33 cited

Amplitude- and phase-resolved nano-imaging and nano-spectroscopy of polaritons in liquid environment

Divya Virmani, Andrei Bylinkin, Irene Dolado Lopez +3

Localized and propagating polaritons allow for highly sensitive analysis of (bio)chemical substances and processes. Nanoimaging of the polaritons evanescent fields allows for criti…

physics.optics2020★ 2 cited

Real-space observation of vibrational strong coupling between propagating phonon polaritons and organic molecules

Andrei Bylinkin, Martin Schnell, Marta Autore +10

Phonon polaritons (PPs) in van der Waals (vdW) materials can strongly enhance light-matter interactions at mid-infrared frequencies, owing to their extreme infrared field confineme…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 18 cited

Probing and steering bulk and surface phonon polaritons in uniaxial materials using fast electrons: hexagonal boron nitride

C. Maciel-Escudero, Andrea Konečná, Rainer Hillenbrand +1

We theoretically describe how fast electrons couple to polaritonic modes in uniaxial materials by analyzing the electron energy loss (EEL) spectra. We show that in the case of an u…

physics.optics2020★ 129 cited

Collective near-field coupling in infrared-phononic metasurfaces for nano-light canalization

Peining Li, Guangwei Hu, Irene Dolado +10

Polaritons, coupled excitations of photons and dipolar matter excitations, can propagate along anisotropic metasurfaces with either hyperbolic or elliptical dispersion. At the tran…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 123 cited

Plasmonic antenna coupling to hyperbolic phonon-polaritons for sensitive and fast mid-infrared photodetection with graphene

Sebastián Castilla, Ioannis Vangelidis, Varun-Varma Pusapati +13

Integrating and manipulating the nano-optoelectronic properties of Van der Waals heterostructures can enable unprecedented platforms for photodetection and sensing. The main challe…

physics.optics2020★ 119 cited

Probes for Ultrasensitive THz Nanoscopy

Curdin Maissen, Shu Chen, Elizaveta Nikulina +2

Scattering-type scanning near-field microscopy (s-SNOM) at terahertz (THz) frequencies could become a highly valuable tool for studying a variety of phenomena of both fundamental a…

physics.optics2019★ 107 cited

Understanding the image contrast of material boundaries in IR nanoscopy reaching 5 nm spatial resolution

Stefan Mastel, Alexander A. Govyadinov, Curdin Maissen +3

Scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) allows for nanoscale resolved Infrared (IR) and Terahertz (THz) imaging, and thus has manifold applications ranging…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 242 cited

Fast and Sensitive Terahertz Detection Using an Antenna-Integrated Graphene pn Junction

Sebastián Castilla, Bernat Terrés, Marta Autore +11

Although the detection of light at terahertz (THz) frequencies is important for a large range of applications, current detectors typically have several disadvantages in terms of se…

physics.optics2019★ 10 cited

Transient vibration imaging with time-resolved synthetic holographic confocal microscopy

Martin Schnell, P. Scott Carney, Rainer Hillenbrand

We introduce a new modality for dynamic phase imaging in confocal microscopy based on synthetic optical holography. By temporal demultiplexing of the detector signal into a series…