Optimizing strong light-matter coupling of plasmonic lattices and monolayer semiconductors
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| author | Krelle, Lukas Husel, Lukas Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Bilgin, Ismail Högele, Alexander Tabataba-Vakili, Farsane |
| author_facet | Krelle, Lukas Husel, Lukas Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Bilgin, Ismail Högele, Alexander Tabataba-Vakili, Farsane |
| contents | Exciton-polaritons provide a versatile platform for the study of a wide range of phenomena, including polariton lasers, topological polaritons, and bosonic condensation. Transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers host excitons with large oscillator strength and binding energies constituting a robust matter constituent that forms polaritons from cryogenic to room temperature when embedded in optical microcavities. Plasmonic nanoparticles arranged in lattice geometries offer strong field-confinement and high quality factors. However, the high sensitivity of monolayer excitons to strain and dielectric disorder necessitates encapsulation in atomically flat hBN to ensure a high optical quality, rendering plasmonics more challenging. Here, we employ our recently developed fabrication method for embedding gold nanodisk arrays into van der Waals heterostructures and compare two samples with opposite layer order. We observe that strain and etching-induced surface contamination can reduce the exciton quality and thus the light-matter interaction strength significantly. Our fabrication approach reduces interfacial irregularities and enables homogeneous large-area polariton lattices for a wide range of applications, such as polarization-control or topological polaritonics. |
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| spellingShingle | Optimizing strong light-matter coupling of plasmonic lattices and monolayer semiconductors Krelle, Lukas Husel, Lukas Watanabe, Kenji Taniguchi, Takashi Bilgin, Ismail Högele, Alexander Tabataba-Vakili, Farsane Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Optics Exciton-polaritons provide a versatile platform for the study of a wide range of phenomena, including polariton lasers, topological polaritons, and bosonic condensation. Transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers host excitons with large oscillator strength and binding energies constituting a robust matter constituent that forms polaritons from cryogenic to room temperature when embedded in optical microcavities. Plasmonic nanoparticles arranged in lattice geometries offer strong field-confinement and high quality factors. However, the high sensitivity of monolayer excitons to strain and dielectric disorder necessitates encapsulation in atomically flat hBN to ensure a high optical quality, rendering plasmonics more challenging. Here, we employ our recently developed fabrication method for embedding gold nanodisk arrays into van der Waals heterostructures and compare two samples with opposite layer order. We observe that strain and etching-induced surface contamination can reduce the exciton quality and thus the light-matter interaction strength significantly. Our fabrication approach reduces interfacial irregularities and enables homogeneous large-area polariton lattices for a wide range of applications, such as polarization-control or topological polaritonics. |
| title | Optimizing strong light-matter coupling of plasmonic lattices and monolayer semiconductors |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14767 |