Photonic crystals for nano-light in moiré graphene superlattices

Sunku, S. S.; Ni, G. X.; Jiang, B. Y.; Yoo, H.; Sternbach, A.; McLeod, A. S.; Stauber, T.; Xiong, L.; Taniguchi, T.; Watanabe, K.; Kim, P.; Fogler, M. M.; Basov, D. N.

doi:10.1126/science.aau5144

Title: Photonic crystals for nano-light in moiré graphene superlattices

Journal Article · Thu Dec 06 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau5144· OSTI ID:1566719

; Ni, G. X.;

; Yoo, H.;

; McLeod, A. S.; Stauber, T.; Xiong, L.; Taniguchi, T.;

;

Graphene is an atomically thin plasmonic medium that supports highly confined plasmon polaritons, or nano-light, with very low loss. Electronic properties of graphene can be drastically altered when it is laid upon another graphene layer, resulting in a moiré superlattice. The relative twist angle between the two layers is a key tuning parameter of the interlayer coupling in thus-obtained twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). We studied the propagation of plasmon polaritons in TBG by infrared nano-imaging. We discovered that the atomic reconstruction occurring at small twist angles transforms the TBG into a natural plasmon photonic crystal for propagating nano-light. This discovery points to a pathway for controlling nano-light by exploiting quantum properties of graphene and other atomically layered van der Waals materials, eliminating the need for arduous top-down nanofabrication.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Programmable Quantum Materials (Pro-QM); Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

DOE Contract Number:: SC0018218; SC0018426; SC0019443

OSTI ID:: 1566719

Journal Information:: Science, Vol. 362, Issue 6419; ISSN 0036-8075

Publisher:: AAAS

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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