Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Deeply subwavelength phonon-polaritonic crystal made of a van der Waals material

  • F. J. Alfaro-Mozaz,
  • S. G. Rodrigo,
  • P. Alonso-González,
  • S. Vélez,
  • I. Dolado,
  • F. Casanova,
  • L. E. Hueso,
  • L. Martín-Moreno,
  • R. Hillenbrand,
  • A. Y. Nikitin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07795-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Photonic crystals can steer, shape, and sculpture the flow of photons. Here, the author fabricate a deep-subwavelength photonic crystal slab that supports ultra-confined phonon polaritons, by patterning a nanoscale hole array in h-BN.