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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2026

Spatially Encoded Polaritonic Ultra-Strong Coupling in Gradient Metasurfaces with Epsilon-Near-Zero Modes.

Enrico Baù, Andreas Aigner, Jonas Biechteler, Connor Heimig, Thomas Weber, Thorsten Gölz, Stefan A Maier, Andreas Tittl

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  1. Electrically Tunable VONanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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Enrico BaùChair in Hybrid Nanosystems, Nano-Institute Munich, Department of Physics, LMU Munich, Königinstraße 10, 80539, Munich, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6251-1875
Andreas AignerChair in Hybrid Nanosystems, Nano-Institute Munich, Department of Physics, LMU Munich, Königinstraße 10, 80539, Munich, Germany.
Jonas BiechtelerChair in Hybrid Nanosystems, Nano-Institute Munich, Department of Physics, LMU Munich, Königinstraße 10, 80539, Munich, Germany.
Connor HeimigChair in Hybrid Nanosystems, Nano-Institute Munich, Department of Physics, LMU Munich, Königinstraße 10, 80539, Munich, Germany.
Thomas WeberChair in Hybrid Nanosystems, Nano-Institute Munich, Department of Physics, LMU Munich, Königinstraße 10, 80539, Munich, Germany.
Thorsten GölzChair in Hybrid Nanosystems, Nano-Institute Munich, Department of Physics, LMU Munich, Königinstraße 10, 80539, Munich, Germany.
Stefan A MaierSchool of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia.
Andreas TittlChair in Hybrid Nanosystems, Nano-Institute Munich, Department of Physics, LMU Munich, Königinstraße 10, 80539, Munich, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3191-7164

Funding

Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft EXC 2089/1-390776260Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft TI 1063/1Enabling Quantum Communication and Imaging ApplicationsEuropean Research Council 101046329European Research Council 101078018Solar Technologies go Hybrid
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Abstract

A platform is introduced to achieve ultra-strong coupling (USC) between light and matter using widely available materials. USC is a light-matter interaction regime characterized by coupling strengths exceeding 10% of the ground state energy. It gives rise to novel physical phenomena, such as efficient single-photon coupling and quantum gates, with applications in quantum sensing, nonlinear optics, and low-threshold lasing. Although early demonstrations in plasmonic systems have been realized, achieving USC in dielectric platforms, which offer lower losses and high Q-factors, remains challenging due to typically low mode overlap between the photonic field and the material resonance. Here, dielectric dual gradient metasurfaces supporting quasi-bound-states-in-the-continuum are leveraged to spatially encode both the spectral and coupling parameter space and demonstrate USC to an epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) mode in an ultra-thin SiO

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bound‐states‐in‐the‐continuumepsilon‐near‐zerolight–matter interactionpolaritonicsultra‐strong coupling

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PMID40936408
PMCPMC12759211

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