Reconfigurable Hyperbolic Polaritonics with Correlated Oxide Metasurfaces

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Specialty Biology

Date 2022 Aug 3

PMID 35922424

Authors

Neda Alsadat Aghamiri

Guangwei Hu

Alireza Fali

Zhen Zhang

Jiahan Li

Sivacarendran Balendhran

Sumeet Walia

Sharath Sriram

James H Edgar

Shriram Ramanathan

Andrea Alu

Yohannes Abate

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Abstract

Polaritons enable subwavelength confinement and highly anisotropic flows of light over a wide spectral range, holding the promise for applications in modern nanophotonic and optoelectronic devices. However, to fully realize their practical application potential, facile methods enabling nanoscale active control of polaritons are needed. Here, we introduce a hybrid polaritonic-oxide heterostructure platform consisting of van der Waals crystals, such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) or alpha-phase molybdenum trioxide (α-MoO), transferred on nanoscale oxygen vacancy patterns on the surface of prototypical correlated perovskite oxide, samarium nickel oxide, SmNiO (SNO). Using a combination of scanning probe microscopy and infrared nanoimaging techniques, we demonstrate nanoscale reconfigurability of complex hyperbolic phonon polaritons patterned at the nanoscale with high resolution. Hydrogenation and temperature modulation allow spatially localized conductivity modulation of SNO nanoscale patterns, enabling robust real-time modulation and nanoscale reconfiguration of hyperbolic polaritons. Our work paves the way towards nanoscale programmable metasurface engineering for reconfigurable nanophotonic applications.

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