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ArticleNature materials2025

Ultraconfined terahertz phonon polaritons in hafnium dichalcogenides.

Ryan A Kowalski, Niclas S Mueller, Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez, Maximilian Obst, Katja Diaz-Granados, Giulia Carini, Aditha Senarath, Saurabh Dixit, Richarda Niemann, Raghunandan B Iyer and 11 more

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Article in Nature materials, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors.

Ryan A Kowalski *Interdisciplinary Materials Science Graduate Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7242-5302
Niclas S Mueller *Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8688-1974
Gonzalo Álvarez-PérezDepartment of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4633-1898
Maximilian ObstInstitute of Applied Physics, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Katja Diaz-GranadosInterdisciplinary Materials Science Graduate Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Giulia CariniDepartment of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany.
Aditha SenarathInterdisciplinary Materials Science Graduate Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Saurabh DixitVanderbilt University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4035-5343
Richarda NiemannDepartment of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany.
Raghunandan B IyerDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
Felix G KapsInstitute of Applied Physics, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Jakob WetzelInstitute of Applied Physics, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
J Michael KlopfInstitute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3431-6666
Ivan I KravchenkoOak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4999-5822
Martin WolfDepartment of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7226-9592
Thomas G FollandDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4665-235X
Lukas M EngInstitute of Applied Physics, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2484-4158
Susanne C KehrInstitute of Applied Physics, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3857-673X
Pablo Alonso-GonzalezDepartment of Physics, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4597-9326
Alexander PaarmannDepartment of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany. alexander.paarmann@fhi-berlin.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8271-2284
Joshua D CaldwellInterdisciplinary Materials Science Graduate Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. josh.caldwell@vanderbilt.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0374-2168

Funding

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) 05K19ODBBundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) 05K22ODADeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 551280726United States Department of Defense | United States Army | U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command | Army Research Office (ARO) W911NF-21-1-0119United States Department of Defense | United States Navy | Office of Naval Research (ONR) N0001- 23-1-2567
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The confinement of electromagnetic radiation to subwavelength scales relies on strong light-matter interactions. In the infrared and terahertz spectral ranges, phonon polaritons are commonly employed to achieve deeply subdiffractional light confinement, with such optical modes offering much lower losses in comparison to plasmon polaritons. Among these, hyperbolic phonon polaritons in anisotropic materials offer a promising platform for light confinement. Here we report on ultraconfined phonon polaritons in hafnium-based dichalcogenides with confinement factors exceeding λ

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