Nature Communications (May 2020)

Chemical switching of low-loss phonon polaritons in α-MoO3 by hydrogen intercalation

  • Yingjie Wu,
  • Qingdong Ou,
  • Yuefeng Yin,
  • Yun Li,
  • Weiliang Ma,
  • Wenzhi Yu,
  • Guanyu Liu,
  • Xiaoqiang Cui,
  • Xiaozhi Bao,
  • Jiahua Duan,
  • Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez,
  • Zhigao Dai,
  • Babar Shabbir,
  • Nikhil Medhekar,
  • Xiangping Li,
  • Chang-Ming Li,
  • Pablo Alonso-González,
  • Qiaoliang Bao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16459-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Phonon polaritons hold promises for nanophotonic applications but external control of phonon polaritons remains challenging. Here, the authors achieve reversible and non-volatile switching of phonon polariton by modifying crystal structure and lattice vibrations via hydrogenation.