Low-loss far-infrared surface phonon polaritons in suspended SrTiO3 nanomembranes
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| author | Koons, Konnor Bechtel, Hans A. Taboada-Gutiérrez, Javier Ghanbari, Reza Wang, Yueyin Corder, Stephanie N. Gilbert Kuzmenko, Alexey B. Xu, Ruijuan Liu, Yin |
| author_facet | Koons, Konnor Bechtel, Hans A. Taboada-Gutiérrez, Javier Ghanbari, Reza Wang, Yueyin Corder, Stephanie N. Gilbert Kuzmenko, Alexey B. Xu, Ruijuan Liu, Yin |
| contents | Phonon polaritons (PhPs), excitations arising from the coupling of light with lattice vibrations, enable light confinement and local field enhancement, which is essential for various photonic and thermal applications. To date, PhPs with high confinement and low loss have been mainly observed in the mid-infrared regime and mostly in manually exfoliated flakes of van der Waals (vdW) materials. In this work, we demonstrate the existence of low-loss, thickness-tunable phonon polaritons in the far-infrared regime within transferable free-standing SrTiO3 membranes synthesized through a scalable approach, achieving high figures of merit, which are comparable to the previous record values from the vdW materials. Leveraging atomic precision in thickness control, large dimensions, and compatibility with mature oxide electronics, functional oxide membranes present a promising large-scale two-dimensional (2D) platform alternative to vdW materials for on-chip polaritonic technologies in the far-infrared regime. |
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| spellingShingle | Low-loss far-infrared surface phonon polaritons in suspended SrTiO3 nanomembranes Koons, Konnor Bechtel, Hans A. Taboada-Gutiérrez, Javier Ghanbari, Reza Wang, Yueyin Corder, Stephanie N. Gilbert Kuzmenko, Alexey B. Xu, Ruijuan Liu, Yin Optics Applied Physics Phonon polaritons (PhPs), excitations arising from the coupling of light with lattice vibrations, enable light confinement and local field enhancement, which is essential for various photonic and thermal applications. To date, PhPs with high confinement and low loss have been mainly observed in the mid-infrared regime and mostly in manually exfoliated flakes of van der Waals (vdW) materials. In this work, we demonstrate the existence of low-loss, thickness-tunable phonon polaritons in the far-infrared regime within transferable free-standing SrTiO3 membranes synthesized through a scalable approach, achieving high figures of merit, which are comparable to the previous record values from the vdW materials. Leveraging atomic precision in thickness control, large dimensions, and compatibility with mature oxide electronics, functional oxide membranes present a promising large-scale two-dimensional (2D) platform alternative to vdW materials for on-chip polaritonic technologies in the far-infrared regime. |
| title | Low-loss far-infrared surface phonon polaritons in suspended SrTiO3 nanomembranes |
| topic | Optics Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06050 |