Nano-optics and light-matter interaction Lab

Selected Publications

M. Chen, X. Lin, T. Dinh, Z. Zheng, J. Shen, Q. Ma, H. Chen, P. Jarillo-Herrero, S. Dai. “Configurable phonon polaritons in twisted α-MoO3”. Nature Materials 19, 1372 (2020).

G. Hu, J. Shen, C. Qiu, A. Alu, S. Dai. “Phonon polaritons and hyperbolic response in van der Waals materials”. Adv Opt. Mater. 8, 1901393 (2020).

S. Dai, W. Fang, N. Rivera, Y. Stehle, B. Jiang, J. Shen, R. Tay, C. Ciccarino, Q. Ma, D. Rodan-Legrain, P. Jarillo-Herrero, E. Teo, M. Fogler, P. Narang, J. Kong, D. N. Basov. “Phonon Polaritons in monolayers of hexagonal Boron Nitride”. Adv Mater. 31, 1806603 (2019).

S. Dai, J. Zhang, Q. Ma, S. Kittiwatanakul, A. McLeod, X. Chen, S. Gilbert Corder, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguichi, J. Lu, Q. Dai, P. Jarillo-Herrero, M. Liu, D. N. Basov. “Phase change hyperbolic heterostructures for nano-polaritonics: a case study of hBN/VO2”. Adv Mater. 31, 1900251 (2019).

S. Dai, J. Quan, G. Hu, C. Qiu, T. Tao, X. Li, A. Alu. “Hyperbolic phonon polaritons in suspended hexagonal boron nitride”. Nano Lett. 19, 1009 (2019).

A. J. Giles, S. Dai, I. Vurgaftman, T. Hoffman, S. Liu, L. Lindsay, C. T. Ellis, N. Assefa, I. Chatzakis, T. L. Reinecke, J. G. Tischler, M. M. Fogler, J. H. Edgar, D. N. Basov, J. D. Caldwell. “Ultra-low-loss Polaritons in Isotopically Pure Materials: A New Approach”. Nature Mater. 17, 134 (2018).

S. Dai, M. Tymchenko, Y. Yang, Q. Ma, M. Pita-Vidal, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, P. Jarillo-Herrero, M. M. Fogler, A. Alu, D. N. Basov. “Manipulation and steering of hyperbolic surface polaritons in hexagonal boron nitride”. Adv Mater. 30, 1706358 (2018).

S. Dai, M. Tymchenko, Z. Xu, T. Tran, Y. Yang, Q. Ma, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, P. Jarillo-Herrero, I. Aharonovich, D. N. Basov, T. Tao, A. Alu. “Internal nanostructure diagnosis with hyperbolic surface polaritons in hexagonal boron nitride”. Nano Lett. 18, 5205 (2018).

S. Dai, Q. Ma, Y. Yang, J. Rosenfeld, M. D. Goldflam, A. S. McLeod, Z. Sun, T. Andersen, Z. Fei, M. K. Liu, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. Thiemens, F. Keilmann, P. Jarillo-Herrero, M. M. Fogler & D. N. Basov. “Efficiency of Launching Highly Confined Polaritons by Infrared Light Incident on a Hyperbolic Material”. Nano Lett. 17, 5285 (2017).

S. Dai, Q. Ma, M. K. Liu, T. Andersen, Z. Fei, M. D. Goldflam, M. Wagner, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. Thiemens, F. Keilmann, G. C. A. M. Janssen, S-E. Zhu, P. Jarillo-Herrero, M. M. Fogler & D. N. Basov. “Graphene on hexagonal boron nitride as a tunable hyperbolic metamaterial”. Nature Nanotech. 10, 682-686 (2015).

S. Dai, Q. Ma, T. Andersen, A. S. McLeod, Z. Fei, M. K. Liu, M. Wagner, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. Thiemens, F. Keilmann, P. Jarillo-Herrero, M. M. Fogler & D. N. Basov. “Subdiffractional focusing and guiding of polaritonic rays in a natural hyperbolic material”. Nature Comm. 6, 6963 (2015).

S. Dai, Z. Fei, Q. Ma, A. S. Rodin, M. Wagner, A. S. McLeod, M. K. Liu, W. Gannett, W. Regan, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. Thiemens, G. Dominguez, A. H. Castro-Neto, A. Zettl, F. Keilmann, P. Jarillo-Herrero, M. M. Fogler & D. N. Basov. "Tunable Phonon Polaritons in Atomically Thin van der Waals Crystals of Boron Nitride". Science 343, 1125-1129 (2014).