Amplitude- and Phase-Resolved Nanospectral Imaging of Phonon Polaritons in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 790-796

  Shi, Zhiwen ^a   Bechtel, Hans A ^b   Berweger, Samuel ^c,d   Sun, Yinghui ^a   Zeng, Bo ^a   Jin, Chenhao ^a   Chang, Henry ^a   Martin, Michael C ^b   Raschke, Markus B ^d   Wang, Feng ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

boron nitride; near field spectroscopy; phonon polariton; synchrotron infrared nanospectroscopy (SINS)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BORON NITRIDE; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; NITRIDES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; SYNCHROTRONS;

HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE (H-BN); LARGE SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; NEAR-FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; PHONON-POLARITON; POLARITON EXCITATION; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; SPECTRAL RESPONSE;

PHONONS;

EID: 84937047242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00007     Document Type: Article

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