• 文献标题:   All-angle negative refraction of highly squeezed plasmon and phonon polaritons in graphene-boron nitride heterostructures
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LIN X, YANG Y, RIVERA N, LOPEZ JJ, SHEN YC, KAMINER I, CHEN HS, ZHANG BL, JOANNOPOULOS JD, SOLJACIC M
  • 作者关键词:   negative refraction, plasmon polariton, phonon polariton, grapheneboron nitride heterostructure
  • 出版物名称:   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  • ISSN:   0027-8424
  • 通讯作者地址:   Zhejiang Univ
  • 被引频次:   66
  • DOI:   10.1073/pnas.1701830114
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

A fundamental building block for nanophotonics is the ability to achieve negative refraction of polaritons, because this could enable the demonstration of many unique nanoscale applications such as deep-subwavelength imaging, superlens, and novel guiding. However, to achieve negative refraction of highly squeezed polaritons, such as plasmon polaritons in graphene and phonon polaritons in boron nitride (BN) with their wavelengths squeezed by a factor over 100, requires the ability to flip the sign of their group velocity at will, which is challenging. Here we reveal that the strong coupling between plasmon and phonon polaritons in graphene-BN heterostructures can be used to flip the sign of the group velocity of the resulting hybrid (plasmon-phonon-polariton) modes. We predict allangle negative refraction between plasmon and phonon polaritons and, even more surprisingly, between hybrid graphene plasmons and between hybrid phonon polaritons. Graphene-BN heterostructures thus provide a versatile platform for the design of nanometasurfaces and nanoimaging elements.