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ArticleSmall (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2026

Ultrabroadband Spacetime Nanoscopy of Terahertz Polaritons in a van der Waals Cavity.

Lukas Wehmeier, Suheng Xu, Xinzhong Chen, Shang-Jie Yu, Yuchen Lin, Zhenbing Dai, Heng Wang, Helen Yao, Jenny Hu, Christopher C Homes and 8 more

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Article in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 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 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Light people: Professor Mengkun Liu.Light, science & applications · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Lukas WehmeierNational Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8416-953X
Suheng XuDepartment of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Xinzhong ChenDepartment of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Shang-Jie YuDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Yuchen LinDepartment of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Zhenbing DaiDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Heng WangDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Helen YaoDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Jenny HuSLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, CA, USA.
Christopher C HomesNational Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA.
Eli JanzenTim Taylor Department of Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA.
James H EdgarTim Taylor Department of Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA.
Xiaolin ZhengDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Tony F HeinzSLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, CA, USA.
Jonathan A FanDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
D N BasovDepartment of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
G L CarrNational Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5478-964X
Mengkun LiuNational Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3512-9133

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Guiding, storing, and processing light at the nanoscale hinges on understanding how polaritons - hybrid quasiparticles of light and matter - propagate and interfere in both space and time. This work introduces a synchrotron-based technique, SYnchrotron SpaceTimE Mapping (SYSTEM), which captures real-time evolution of polariton wave packets with ∼10 nm spatial and sub-100 fs temporal resolution across an ultrabroadband 5-50 THz range. Here, SYSTEM directly visualizes the creation, interference, and decay of multiple high-quality Fabry-Pérot phonon polariton cavity modes in an α-MoO

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broadband synchrotron lightcavitygroup velocityhighest known quality factor for terahertz polaritonsphase velocitypropagating wave

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PMID41504148
PMCPMC12910430

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