2024-03-29T08:01:14Zhttp://digital.csic.es/dspace-oai/requestoai:digital.csic.es:10261/2183922021-06-03T04:32:53Zcom_10261_28457com_10261_3com_10261_115col_10261_28462col_10261_368
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/218392
10.1002/adma.201908176
399169
Infrared permittivity of the biaxial van der Waals semiconductor α‐MoO3 from near‐ and far‐field correlative studies
Wiley-VCH
2020
artículo
Álvarez-Pérez, Gonzalo
Folland, Thomas G.
Errea, Ion
Taboada-Gutiérrez, Javier
Duan, Jiahua
Martín-Sánchez, Javier
Tresguerres-Mata, Ana I. F.
Matson, Joseph R.
Bylinkin, Andrei
He, Mingze
Ma, Weiliang
Bao, Qiaoliang
Martín, José Ignacio
Caldwell, Joshua D.
Nikitin, Alexey Y.
Alonso-González, Pablo
rp01101
2020
The biaxial van der Waals semiconductor α‐phase molybdenum trioxide (α‐MoO3) has recently received significant attention due to its ability to support highly anisotropic phonon polaritons (PhPs)—infrared (IR) light coupled to lattice vibrations—offering an unprecedented platform for controlling the flow of energy at the nanoscale. However, to fully exploit the extraordinary IR response of this material, an accurate dielectric function is required. Here, the accurate IR dielectric function of α‐MoO3 is reported by modeling far‐field polarized IR reflectance spectra acquired on a single thick flake of this material. Unique to this work, the far‐field model is refined by contrasting the experimental dispersion and damping of PhPs, revealed by polariton interferometry using scattering‐type scanning near‐field optical microscopy (s‐SNOM) on thin flakes of α‐MoO3, with analytical and transfer‐matrix calculations, as well as full‐wave simulations. Through these correlative efforts, exceptional quantitative agreement is attained to both far‐ and near‐field properties for multiple flakes, thus providing strong verification of the accuracy of this model, while offering a novel approach to extracting dielectric functions of nanomaterials. In addition, by employing density functional theory (DFT), insights into the various vibrational states dictating the dielectric function model and the intriguing optical properties of α‐MoO3 are provided.
Principado de Asturias
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
European Commission
Australian Research Council
National Science Foundation (US)
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)
Eusko Jaurlaritza
European Research Council
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
Advanced Materials
2020
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