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most citedEnabling propagation of anisotropic polaritons along forbidden directions via a topological transition

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physics.flu-dyn2026

Wave Vortices Around Oscillating Subwavelength Holes: Water-Wave Observation

Junyi Ye, Zheyi Li, Alexey Y. Nikitin +4

We consider a two-dimensional wave system containing a subwavelength hole, such as an aperture in an interface supporting surface electromagnetic or acoustic waves, or an island in…

physics.optics2026

Twistoptics in Planar Heterostructures with an Arbitrary Number of Rotated 3D Thin Layers and 2D Conductive Sheets

Christian Lanza, José Álvarez-Cuervo, Kirill V. Voronin +5

Twistoptics has recently emerged as a branch of nano-optics that explores light propagation in stacks of thin anisotropic layers rotated relative to one another. The concept is par…

physics.optics2026

Local control and lateral nanofocusing of hyperbolic phonon polaritons

Jacob T. Heiden, Haozhe Tong, Yongjun Lim +6

Phonon polaritons in van der Waals crystals enable exceptional light confinement and control over low-loss nanolight propagation. The polariton wavelength can be controlled by the…

physics.optics2026

MoOCl as a Hyperbolic Planar Platform for Nanooptics at Telecom Frequencies

Haozhe Tong, Clara Clemente-Marcuello, Kirill V. Voronin +2

On-chip optoelectronics is fundamental to modern telecommunication, yet the diffraction limit of light remains a major obstacle to the extreme miniaturization of photonic integrate…

physics.optics2026

Launching of Visible-Range Hyperbolic Polaritons by Gold Nanoantennas in a natural van der Waals crystal

Clara Clemente-Marcuello, Haozhe Tong, Kirill V. Voronin +2

Anisotropic van der Waals materials provide a powerful platform for nanoscale optoelectronics, enabling strong lightmatter interaction and deep electromagnetic field confinement…

physics.optics2026

Size-dependent Dielectric Permittivity of Perovskite Nanocrystals

Jehyeok Ryu, Victor Krivenkov, Vitaly Goryashko +2

Perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) are promising building blocks for quantum photonic devices. Optical properties of PNCs can be enhanced by integration with optical cavities or nanoan…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Perovskite Nanocrystals as Emerging Single-Photon Emitters: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

Jehyeok Ryu, Victor Krivenkov, Adam Olejniczak +2

Metal-halide perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) have emerged as leading candidates for next-generation quantum emitters, offering a unique combination of high photoluminescence quantum…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 13 cited

Directional strong coupling at the nanoscale between hyperbolic polaritons and organic molecules

Ana I. F. Tresguerres-Mata, Olga G. Matveeva, Christian Lanza +17

Strong coupling (SC) is a fundamental concept in physics that describes extreme interactions between light and matter. Recent experiments have demonstrated SC at the nanometer scal…

physics.optics2025★ 4 cited

Misalignment between the Directions of Propagation and Decay of Nanoscale-confined Polaritons

Kirill V. Voronin, Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez, Aitana Tarazaga Martín-Luengo +2

Anisotropic van der Waals crystals have gained significant attention in nanooptics and optoelectronics due to their unconventional optical properties, including anomalous reflectio…

physics.optics2025★ 4 cited

Quantitative Analytical Model for Scattering-type Scanning Near-field Optical Spectroscopy

Kirill V. Voronin, Iker Herrero León, Rainer Hillenbrand +1

Scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) is a versatile technique in nanooptics, enabling local probing of optical responses beyond the diffraction limit fro…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 2 cited

Tunable hyperbolic Landau-level polaritons in charge-neutral graphene nanoribbon metasurfaces

Kateryna Domina, Tetiana Slipchenko, D. -H. -Minh Nguyen +4

Magnetized charge-neutral graphene supports collective hybrid electronic excitations - polaritons - which have quantum origin. In contrast to polaritons in doped graphene, which ar…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 5 cited

Nickel Doping Unlocks Ambient-condition Photostability in Individual Cesium Lead Bromide Perovskite Quantum Dots

Jehyeok Ryu, Victor Krivenkov, Adam Olejniczak +7

Developing efficient single-photon sources is fundamental to advancing photonic quantum technologies. In particular, achieving scalable, cost-effective, stable, high-rate, and high…

physics.optics2025

Bloch phonon-polaritons with anomalous dispersion in polaritonic Fourier crystals

Sergey G. Menabde, Yongjun Lim, Alexey Y. Nikitin +5

The recently suggested concept of a polaritonic Fourier crystal (PFC) is based on a harmonically-corrugated mirror substrate for a thin pristine polaritonic crystal layer. The prop…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Low-loss twist-tunable in-plane anisotropic polaritonic crystals

Nathaniel Capote-Robayna, Ana I. F. Tresguerres-Mata, Aitana Tarazaga Martín-Luengo +4

Van der Waals (vdW) materials supporting phonon polaritons (PhPs) - light coupled to lattice vibrations - have gathered significant interest because of their intrinsic anisotropy a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 12 cited

Unveiling the Mechanism of Phonon-Polariton Damping in α-MoO_3

Javier Taboada-Gutiérrez, Yixi Zhou, Ana I. F. Tresguerres-Mata +14

Phonon polaritons (PhPs) (light coupled to lattice vibrations) in the highly anisotropic polar layered material molybdenum trioxide (α-MoO_3) are currently the focus of intense res…

physics.optics2024

Polaritonic Fourier crystal

Sergey G. Menabde, Yongjun Lim, Kirill Voronin +4

Polaritonic crystals - periodic structures where the hybrid light-matter waves called polaritons can form Bloch states - promise a deeply subdiffractional nanolight manipulation an…

physics.optics2024★ 2 cited

Canalization-based super-resolution imaging using a single van der Waals layer

Jiahua Duan, Aitana Tarazaga Martin-Luengo, Christian Lanza +7

Canalization is an optical phenomenon that enables unidirectional propagation of light in a natural way, i.e., without the need for predefined waveguiding designs. Predicted years…

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

Fundamentals of polaritons in strongly anisotropic thin crystal layers

Kirill V. Voronin, Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez, Christian Lanza +2

Polaritons in strongly anisotropic thin layers have recently captured the attention in nanophotonics because of their directional propagation at the nanoscale, which offers unique…

physics.optics2021★ 101 cited

Enabling propagation of anisotropic polaritons along forbidden directions via a topological transition

Jiahua Duan, Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez, Kirill V. Voronin +6

Recent discoveries of polaritons in van der Waals (vdW) crystals with directional in-plane propagation, ultra-low losses, and broad spectral tunability have opened the door for unp…