• 文献标题:   \ Photonic crystals for nano-light in moire graphene superlattices
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SUNKU SS, NI GX, JIANG BY, YOO H, STERNBACH A, MCLEOD AS, STAUBER T, XIONG L, TANIGUCHI T, WATANABE K, KIM P, FOGLER MM, BASOV DN
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  • 出版物名称:   SCIENCE
  • ISSN:   0036-8075 EI 1095-9203
  • 通讯作者地址:   Columbia Univ
  • 被引频次:   19
  • DOI:   10.1126/science.aau5144
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

Graphene is an atomically thin plasmonic medium that supports highly confined plasmon polaritons, or nano-light, with very low loss. Electronic properties of graphene can be drastically altered when it is laid upon another graphene layer, resulting in a moire superlattice. The relative twist angle between the two layers is a key tuning parameter of the interlayer coupling in thus-obtained twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). We studied the propagation of plasmon polaritons in TBG by infrared nano-imaging. We discovered that the atomic reconstruction occurring at small twist angles transforms the TBG into a natural plasmon photonic crystal for propagating nano-light. This discovery points to a pathway for controlling nano-light by exploiting quantum properties of graphene and other atomically layered van der Waals materials, eliminating the need for arduous top-down nanofabrication.