Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Plasmons in the van der Waals charge-density-wave material 2H-TaSe2

  • Chaoyu Song,
  • Xiang Yuan,
  • Ce Huang,
  • Shenyang Huang,
  • Qiaoxia Xing,
  • Chong Wang,
  • Cheng Zhang,
  • Yuangang Xie,
  • Yuchen Lei,
  • Fanjie Wang,
  • Lei Mu,
  • Jiasheng Zhang,
  • Faxian Xiu,
  • Hugen Yan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20720-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Here, arrays of 2H-TaSe2 nanoribbons are shown to exhibit a broadband plasmonic response that can be tuned from THz to telecom range. These localized plasmons can also couple to charge density wave excitations, offering insights on the physics of plasmonic excitations in 2D correlated materials.