Visible-frequency hyperbolic plasmon polaritons in a natural van der Waals crystal

Giacomo Venturi, Andrea Mancini (), Nicola Melchioni, Stefano Chiodini and Antonio Ambrosio ()
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Giacomo Venturi: Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Andrea Mancini: Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Nicola Melchioni: Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Stefano Chiodini: Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Antonio Ambrosio: Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract Controlling light at subwavelength scales is crucial in nanophotonics. Hyperbolic polaritons, supporting arbitrarily large wavevectors, enable extreme light confinement beyond the diffraction limit. Traditional hyperbolic metamaterials suffer from high losses due to metallic components, while natural low-loss hyperbolic phonon polaritons are limited to the mid-infrared range. Some hyperbolic materials at visible frequencies have been studied, but they are either very lossy or only feature out-of-plane hyperbolicity. Here, we demonstrate the presence of low-loss, in-plane hyperbolic plasmon polaritons in the visible and near-infrared in thin-films of MoOCl2, a natural van der Waals crystal. The polariton dispersion is predicted based on the framework of light propagation in biaxial media and experimentally confirmed by real space nano imaging on exfoliated flakes. MoOCl2 constitutes an ideal material platform for visible range applications leveraging the unboundedness of hyperbolic modes, such as hyperlensing, Purcell factor enhancement, and super-resolution imaging, without the drawbacks of metamaterials.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53988-7

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