• 文献标题:   Graphene-Hexagonal Boron Nitride Heterostructure as a Tunable Phonon-Plasmon Coupling System
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   QU S, LIU HX, DONG L, WU L, MA CC, WANG SL
  • 作者关键词:   van der waals heterostructure, twodimensional material, graphene, hbn, hyperbolic phononplasmon polariton
  • 出版物名称:   CRYSTALS
  • ISSN:   2073-4352
  • 通讯作者地址:   Xidian Univ
  • 被引频次:   5
  • DOI:   10.3390/cryst7020049
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

The layered van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure, assembled from monolayer graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and other atomic crystals in various combinations, is emerging as a new paradigm with which to attain desired electronic and optical properties. In this paper, we study theoretically the mid-infrared optical properties of the vdW heterostructure based on the graphene-h-BN system. The light-matter interaction of this heterostructure system is described by the hyperbolic phonon-plasmon polaritons which originate from the coupling modes of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in graphene with hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPPs) in h-BN. By numerical simulation, we find that the coupling modes are governed by the Fermi level of monolayer graphene, the thickness of the h-BN slab and the mode excitation sequence of SPPs and HPPs. Moreover, the response of the coupling modes of the graphene-h-BN heterostructure on a noble metal layer is also proposed in this paper.