{"id":1723,"date":"2020-06-22T17:54:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T16:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nanoworld.com\/blog\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:59:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T11:59:22","slug":"chemical-switching-of-low-loss-phonon-polaritons-in-%ce%b1-moo3-by-hydrogen-intercalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nanoworld.com\/blog\/chemical-switching-of-low-loss-phonon-polaritons-in-%ce%b1-moo3-by-hydrogen-intercalation\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical switching of low-loss phonon polaritons in \u03b1-MoO3 by hydrogen intercalation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Phonon polaritons (PhPs) have attracted significant interest in the nano-optics communities because of their nanoscale confinement and long lifetimes. Although PhP modification by changing the local dielectric environment has been reported, controlled manipulation of PhPs by direct modification of the polaritonic material itself has remained elusive.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the article \u201c<em>Chemical switching of low-loss phonon polaritons in \u03b1-MoO3 by hydrogen intercalation<\/em>\u201d Yingjie Wu, Qingdong Ou, Yuefeng Yin, Yun Li, Weiliang Ma, Wenzhi Yu, Guanyu Liu, Xiaoqiang Cui, Xiaozhi Bao, Jiahua Duan, Gonzalo \u00c1lvarez-P\u00e9rez, Zhigao Dai, Babar Shabbir, Nikhil Medhekar, Xiangping Li, Chang-Ming Li, Pablo Alonso-Gonz\u00e1lez and Qiaoliang Bao demonstrate an effective chemical approach to manipulate PhPs in \u03b1-MoO3 by the hydrogen intercalation-induced perturbation of lattice vibrations.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their methodology establishes a proof of concept for chemically manipulating polaritons, offering opportunities for the growing nanophotonics community.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surface topography and near-field images presented in this article were captured using a commercial s-SNOM setup with a platinum iridium coated NanoWorld <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nanoworld.com\/tapping-mode-platinum-coated-afm-tip-arrow-ncpt\" target=\"_blank\">Arrow-NCPt<\/a> AFM probe in tapping mode.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dhipgo7nn2tea.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/22173952\/figure-2-a-from-Chemical-switching-of-low-loss-phonon-polaritons-in-%CE%B1-MoO3-by-hydrogen-intercalation.jpg\" alt=\"Fig. 2 a) from \u201cChemical switching of low-loss phonon polaritons in \u03b1-MoO3 by hydrogen intercalation\u201d by Yingjie Wu et al. :\nReversible switching of PhPs in the L-RB of \u03b1-MoO3 a Schematic of the s-SNOM measurement and PhP propagation in a typical H-MoO3\/\u03b1-MoO3 in-plane heterostructure.\n2 a Schematic of the s-SNOM measurement and PhP propagation in a typical H-MoO3\/\u03b1-MoO3 in-plane heterostructure. P\" class=\"wp-image-1726\"\/><figcaption>Fig. 2 a) from \u201c<em>Chemical switching of low-loss phonon polaritons in \u03b1-MoO3 by hydrogen intercalation<\/em>\u201d by Yingjie Wu et al. :<br>Reversible switching of PhPs in the L-RB of \u03b1-MoO3 a Schematic of the s-SNOM measurement and PhP propagation in a typical H-MoO3\/\u03b1-MoO3 in-plane heterostructure.<br>2 a Schematic of the s-SNOM measurement and PhP propagation in a typical H-MoO3\/\u03b1-MoO3 in-plane heterostructure. Please follow this external link for the full figure: https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-020-16459-3\/figures\/2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>*Yingjie Wu, Qingdong Ou, Yuefeng Yin, Yun Li, Weiliang Ma, Wenzhi Yu, Guanyu Liu, Xiaoqiang Cui, Xiaozhi Bao, Jiahua Duan, Gonzalo \u00c1lvarez-P\u00e9rez, Zhigao Dai, Babar Shabbir, Nikhil Medhekar, Xiangping Li, Chang-Ming Li, Pablo Alonso-Gonz\u00e1lez &amp; Qiaoliang Bao<br><strong>Chemical switching of low-loss phonon polaritons in \u03b1-MoO3 by hydrogen intercalation<\/strong><br>Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 2646 (2020)<br>DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-020-16459-3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please follow this external link to read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/rdcu.be\/b46eT\">https:\/\/<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rdcu.be\/b46eT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rdcu.be\/b46eT <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open Access The article \u201c <em>Chemical switching of low-loss phonon polaritons in \u03b1-MoO3 by hydrogen intercalation<\/em> \u201c by Yingjie Wu, Qingdong Ou, Yuefeng Yin, Yun Li, Weiliang Ma, Wenzhi Yu, Guanyu Liu, Xiaoqiang Cui, Xiaozhi Bao, Jiahua Duan, Gonzalo \u00c1lvarez-P\u00e9rez, Zhigao Dai, Babar Shabbir, Nikhil Medhekar, Xiangping Li, Chang-Ming Li, Pablo Alonso-Gonz\u00e1lez and Qiaoliang Bao is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. 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Although PhP modification by changing the local dielectric environment has been reported, controlled manipulation of PhPs by direct modification of the polaritonic material itself has remained elusive.* In the article \u201cChemical switching of low-loss phonon polaritons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanoworld.com\/blog\/chemical-switching-of-low-loss-phonon-polaritons-in-%ce%b1-moo3-by-hydrogen-intercalation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\" >Chemical switching of low-loss phonon polaritons in \u03b1-MoO3 by hydrogen intercalation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[149,62,66,65,228,20,19,18,98,36,373,236,235,102,327,374,231,16,241,229,148,230,343],"class_list":{"0":"post-1723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-news","7":"tag-2d-materials","8":"tag-afm-probes","9":"tag-afm","12":"tag-arrow-afm-cantilever","13":"tag-arrow-afm-probe","14":"tag-arrow-afm-tip","15":"tag-arrow-ncpt","16":"tag-conductive-afm-tip","17":"tag-infrared-nanophotonics","18":"tag-nano-optics","19":"tag-nanophotonics","20":"tag-nanophotonics-and-plasmonics","21":"tag-nanostructured-materials","22":"tag-phonon-polaritons-phps","23":"tag-s-snom","24":"tag-scanning-probe-microscopy","25":"tag-spm","27":"tag-two-dimensional-materials","28":"tag-230","29":"tag-343"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanoworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanoworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanoworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanoworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanoworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanoworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanoworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanoworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanoworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanoworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}