Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Polariton nanophotonics using phase-change materials

  • Kundan Chaudhary,
  • Michele Tamagnone,
  • Xinghui Yin,
  • Christina M. Spägele,
  • Stefano L. Oscurato,
  • Jiahan Li,
  • Christoph Persch,
  • Ruoping Li,
  • Noah A. Rubin,
  • Luis A. Jauregui,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Philip Kim,
  • Matthias Wuttig,
  • James H. Edgar,
  • Antonio Ambrosio,
  • Federico Capasso

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12439-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Here, the authors experimentally demonstrate a platform for tunable polariton refractive and meta-optics based on hexagonal boron nitride and phase change Ge3Sb2Te6. This combination has the advantage of the long-lived phonon-polariton with switchable refractive index of the phase change material.