Highly confined epsilon-near-zero- and surface-phonon polaritons in SrTiO3 membranes
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| author | Xu, Ruijuan Crassee, Iris Bechtel, Hans A. Zhou, Yixi Bercher, Adrien Korosec, Lukas Rischau, Carl Willem Teyssier, Jérémie Crust, Kevin J. Lee, Yonghun Corder, Stephanie N. Gilbert Li, Jiarui Dionne, Jennifer A. Hwang, Harold Y. Kuzmenko, Alexey B. Liu, Yin |
| author_facet | Xu, Ruijuan Crassee, Iris Bechtel, Hans A. Zhou, Yixi Bercher, Adrien Korosec, Lukas Rischau, Carl Willem Teyssier, Jérémie Crust, Kevin J. Lee, Yonghun Corder, Stephanie N. Gilbert Li, Jiarui Dionne, Jennifer A. Hwang, Harold Y. Kuzmenko, Alexey B. Liu, Yin |
| contents | Recent theoretical studies have suggested that transition metal perovskite oxide membranes can enable surface phonon polaritons in the infrared range with low loss and much stronger subwavelength confinement than bulk crystals. Such modes, however, have not been experimentally observed so far. Here, using a combination of far-field Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and near-field synchrotron infrared nanospectroscopy (SINS) imaging, we study the phonon-polaritons in a 100 nm thick freestanding crystalline membrane of SrTiO3 transferred on metallic and dielectric substrates. We observe a symmetric-antisymmetric mode splitting giving rise to epsilon-near-zero and Berreman modes as well as highly confined (by a factor of 10) propagating phonon polaritons, both of which result from the deep-subwavelength thickness of the membranes. Theoretical modeling based on the analytical finite-dipole model and numerical finite-difference methods fully corroborate the experimental results. Our work reveals the potential of oxide membranes as a promising platform for infrared photonics and polaritonics. |
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| spellingShingle | Highly confined epsilon-near-zero- and surface-phonon polaritons in SrTiO3 membranes Xu, Ruijuan Crassee, Iris Bechtel, Hans A. Zhou, Yixi Bercher, Adrien Korosec, Lukas Rischau, Carl Willem Teyssier, Jérémie Crust, Kevin J. Lee, Yonghun Corder, Stephanie N. Gilbert Li, Jiarui Dionne, Jennifer A. Hwang, Harold Y. Kuzmenko, Alexey B. Liu, Yin Materials Science Optics Recent theoretical studies have suggested that transition metal perovskite oxide membranes can enable surface phonon polaritons in the infrared range with low loss and much stronger subwavelength confinement than bulk crystals. Such modes, however, have not been experimentally observed so far. Here, using a combination of far-field Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and near-field synchrotron infrared nanospectroscopy (SINS) imaging, we study the phonon-polaritons in a 100 nm thick freestanding crystalline membrane of SrTiO3 transferred on metallic and dielectric substrates. We observe a symmetric-antisymmetric mode splitting giving rise to epsilon-near-zero and Berreman modes as well as highly confined (by a factor of 10) propagating phonon polaritons, both of which result from the deep-subwavelength thickness of the membranes. Theoretical modeling based on the analytical finite-dipole model and numerical finite-difference methods fully corroborate the experimental results. Our work reveals the potential of oxide membranes as a promising platform for infrared photonics and polaritonics. |
| title | Highly confined epsilon-near-zero- and surface-phonon polaritons in SrTiO3 membranes |
| topic | Materials Science Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08500 |