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most citedNanoscale-confined Terahertz Polaritons in a van der Waals Crystal

110 citations · 221 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

physics.optics2026

Infrared light scattering and emission from epsilon near-zero hyperbolic phonon-polaritons in two-dimensional crystals

Flavio Henrique Feres, Martin Bearzatto, Adrien Debacq +24

This work presents the near-field super-scattering and the near-field thermal emission from 2D hyperbolic crystals as general optical phenomena that link near-field nanophotonics t…

physics.optics2026

Ultra-high THz-field-confinement at LaAlO3 twin walls

Jakob Wetzel, Javier Taboada-Gutiérrez, Matthias Roeper +13

The control and steering of light at nanometre length scales is crucial for the development of both fundamental science and nanophotonic technologies. Recent advancements have been…

physics.optics2026★ 2 cited

Free-electron laser-based extended wide-field mid-infrared photothermal imaging for biomedical and microplastic analysis

Anooj Thayyil Raveendran, Subham Adak, Artem Shydliukh +8

Wide-field mid-infrared photothermal (MIP) imaging offers rapid labelfree chemical contrast for biomedical and polymer analysis. However, its field of view (FOV) is limited by the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Uncovering the properties of homo-epitaxial GaN devices through cross-sectional infrared nanoscopy

Hossein Zandipour, Felix Kaps, Robin Buschbeck +19

Validating material performance in electrical devices is crucial to product development. For Gallium Nitride (GaN) devices, evaluating material factors such as defects, dopant conc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Tailoring phonon-driven responses in α-MoO3 through isotopic enrichment

Thiago S. Arnaud, Ryan W. Spangler, Johnathan D. Georgaras +29

The implementation of polaritonic materials into nanoscale devices requires selective tuning of parameters to realize desired spectral or thermal responses. One robust material is…

physics.optics2025

Spectral tuning of hyperbolic shear polaritons in monoclinic gallium oxide via isotopic substitution

Giulia Carini, Mohit Pradhan, Elena Gelzinyte +26

Hyperbolic phonon polaritons - hybridized modes arising from the ultrastrong coupling of infrared light to strongly anisotropic lattice vibrations in uniaxial or biaxial polar crys…

physics.optics2025

Ultraconfined THz Phonon Polaritons in Hafnium Dichalcogenides

R. A. Kowalski, N. S. Mueller, G. Álvarez-Pérez +18

The confinement of electromagnetic radiation to subwavelength scales relies on strong light-matter interactions. In the infrared (IR) and terahertz (THz) spectral ranges, phonon po…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 16 cited

Experimental observation of repulsively bound magnons

Zhe Wang, Catalin-Mihai Halati, Jean-Sébastien Bernier +9

Stable composite objects, such as hadrons, nuclei, atoms, molecules and superconducting pairs, formed by attractive forces are ubiquitous in nature. By contrast, composite objects…

physics.optics2024★ 25 cited

Unidirectional Ray Polaritons in Twisted Asymmetric Stacks

J. Álvarez-Cuervo, M. Obst, S. Dixit +25

The vast repository of van der Waals (vdW) materials supporting polaritons offers numerous possibilities to tailor electromagnetic waves at the nanoscale. The development of twisto…

physics.optics2023

Terahertz Twistoptics -- engineering canalized phonon polaritons

Maximilian Obst, Tobias Nörenberg, Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez +11

The terahertz (THz) frequency range is key to study collective excitations in many crystals and organic molecules. However, due to the large wavelength of THz radiation, the local…

physics.optics2021★ 26 cited

Germanium monosulfide as a natural platform for highly anisotropic THz polaritons

Tobias Nörenberg, Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez, Maximilian Obst +8

Terahertz (THz) electromagnetic radiation is key to optically access collective excitations such as magnons (spins), plasmons (electrons), or phonons (atomic vibrations), thus brid…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 110 cited

Nanoscale-confined Terahertz Polaritons in a van der Waals Crystal

Thales V. A. G. de Oliveira, Tobias Nörenberg, Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez +11

Electromagnetic field confinement is crucial for nanophotonic technologies, since it allows for enhancing light-matter interactions, thus enabling light manipulation in deep sub-wa…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 33 cited

Non-thermal nature of photo-induced insulator-to-metal transition in NbO

Rakesh Rana, J. Michael Klopf, Jörg Grenzer +3

We study the photo-induced metallization process in niobium dioxide NbO. This compound undergoes the thermal insulator-to-metal transition at the remarkably high temperature of…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 9 cited

The contribution of microbunching instability to solar flare emission in the GHz to THz range of frequencies

J. Michael Klopf, Pierre Kaufmann, Jean-Pierre Raulin +1

Recent solar flare observations in the sub-THz range have provided evidence of a new spectral component with fluxes increasing for larger frequencies, separated from the well-known…