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Tunable anisotropic van der Waals films of 2M-WS 2 for plasmon canalization.

Qiaoxia XingJiasheng ZhangYuqiang FangChaoyu SongTuoyu ZhaoYanlin MouChong WangJunwei MaYuangang XieShenyang HuangLei MuYuchen LeiWu ShiFuqiang HuangHugen Yan
Published in: Nature communications (2024)
In-plane anisotropic van der Waals materials have emerged as a natural platform for anisotropic polaritons. Extreme anisotropic polaritons with in-situ broadband tunability are of great significance for on-chip photonics, yet their application remains challenging. In this work, we experimentally characterize through Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy measurements a van der Waals plasmonic material, 2M-WS 2 , capable of supporting intrinsic room-temperature in-plane anisotropic plasmons in the far and mid-infrared regimes. In contrast to the recently revealed natural hyperbolic plasmons in other anisotropic materials, 2M-WS 2 supports canalized plasmons with flat isofrequency contours in the frequency range of ~ 3000-5000 cm -1 . Furthermore, the anisotropic plasmons and the corresponding isofrequency contours can be reversibly tuned via in-situ ion-intercalation. The tunable anisotropic and canalization plasmons may open up further application perspectives in the field of uniaxial plasmonics, such as serving as active components in directional sensing, radiation manipulation, and polarization-dependent optical modulators.
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