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ReviewNanophotonics (Berlin, Germany)2022

Image polaritons in van der Waals crystals.

Sergey G Menabde, Jacob T Heiden, Joel D Cox, N Asger Mortensen, Min Seok Jang

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Review in Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Observation of Edge-Confined Acoustic Hyperbolic Polaritons in van der Waals Materials.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  5. Near-field refractometry of van der Waals crystals.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2025
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  6. Broadband measurement of Feibelman's quantum surface response functions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. Polaritonic Fourier crystal.Nature communications · 2025
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  9. Modulation of surface phonon polaritons in MoONanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2025
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  15. The latest trends in nanophotonics.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Sergey G MenabdeSchool of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9188-8719
Jacob T HeidenSchool of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4505-6107
Joel D CoxCenter for Nano Optics, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5954-6038
N Asger MortensenCenter for Nano Optics, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7936-6264
Min Seok JangSchool of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5683-1925

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polaritonic modes in low-dimensional materials enable strong light-matter interactions and the manipulation of light on nanometer length scales. Very recently, a new class of polaritons has attracted considerable interest in nanophotonics: image polaritons in van der Waals crystals, manifesting when a polaritonic material is in close proximity to a highly conductive metal, so that the polaritonic mode couples with its mirror image. Image modes constitute an appealing nanophotonic platform, providing an unparalleled degree of optical field compression into nanometric volumes while exhibiting lower normalized propagation loss compared to conventional polariton modes in van der Waals crystals on nonmetallic substrates. Moreover, the ultra-compressed image modes provide access to the nonlocal regime of light-matter interaction. In this review, we systematically overview the young, yet rapidly growing, field of image polaritons. More specifically, we discuss the dispersion properties of image modes, showcase the diversity of the available polaritons in various van der Waals materials, and highlight experimental breakthroughs owing to the unique properties of image polaritons.

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image polaritonslight–matter interactionphonon-polaritonsplasmonsvan der Waals materials

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PMID39635681
PMCPMC11501350

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