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Title: Plasmon coupling in topological insulator multilayers

Journal Article · · Physical Review Materials

Topological insulators (TIs) house two-dimensional Dirac plasmons on their surfaces. In TI thin films, plasmons on the top and bottom surfaces couple electrostatically, giving rise to an acoustic and an optical plasmon mode. By extension, a superlattice comprising TI layers and trivially-insulating layers could house multiple complex plasmon modes which could be used to create a new type of Dirac metamaterial. In this paper, we synthesize TI superlattices, fabricate them into stripe arrays, characterize their optical and plasmonic properties, and model the samples using transfer matrices. Furthermore, we excite plasmon modes that couple to the phonons in the superlattice, resulting in hybrid plasmon phonon polaritons. These modes are modeled using an analytical Fano resonance model and the extracted resonant positions are reproduced by transfer matrix modeling. We also excite an epsilon-near-zero mode in the top dielectric material (Bi0.5In0.5)2Se3. Understanding the behavior of the polariton modes in this complex system will lend insight into the many-body interaction in low-dimensional systems.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0017801
OSTI ID:
1772565
Journal Information:
Physical Review Materials, Vol. 4, Issue 11; ISSN 2475-9953
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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