Nature Communications (May 2017)

Tunable and low-loss correlated plasmons in Mott-like insulating oxides

  • Teguh Citra Asmara,
  • Dongyang Wan,
  • Yongliang Zhao,
  • Muhammad Aziz Majidi,
  • Christopher T. Nelson,
  • Mary C. Scott,
  • Yao Cai,
  • Bixing Yan,
  • Daniel Schmidt,
  • Ming Yang,
  • Tao Zhu,
  • Paolo E. Trevisanutto,
  • Mallikarjuna R. Motapothula,
  • Yuan Ping Feng,
  • Mark B. H. Breese,
  • Matthew Sherburne,
  • Mark Asta,
  • Andrew Minor,
  • T. Venkatesan,
  • Andrivo Rusydi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15271
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Conventional plasmons in metals often suffer from high plasmonic loss in the optical range. Here, the authors report a distinct form of tunable correlated plasmons in Mott-like insulating Sr1−xNbO3+δfilms, with multiple plasmon frequencies and low loss in the visible-ultraviolet range.