Boron nitride nanoresonators for phonon-enhanced molecular vibrational spectroscopy at the strong coupling limit

Marta Autore; Peining Li; Irene Dolado; Francisco J Alfaro-Mozaz; Ruben Esteban; Ainhoa Atxabal; Fèlix Casanova; Luis E Hueso; Pablo Alonso-González; Javier Aizpurua; Alexey Y Nikitin; Saül Vélez; Rainer Hillenbrand

doi:10.1038/lsa.2017.172

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Boron nitride nanoresonators for phonon-enhanced molecular vibrational spectroscopy at the strong coupling limit

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- Boron nitride nanoresonators for phonon-enhanced molecular vibrational spectroscopy at the strong coupling limit
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 7, Issue 2, (2018)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia-San Sebastián 20018, Spain
  2.Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Donostia-San Sebastián 20018, Spain
  3.IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao 48013, Spain
  4.Departamento de Física, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo 33007, Spain
  5.Centro de Física de Materiales (MPC, CSIC-UPV/EHU), Donostia-San Sebastián 20018, Spain
  6.Current address: Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
  7.CIC nanoGUNE and UPV/EHU, Donostia-San Sebastián 20018, Spain
- Author bio：
  
  R Hillenbrand, Email: r.hillenbrand@nanogune.eu
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2017.172
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- Published：2018，
  
  Published Online：06 April 2018，
  
  Received：21 September 2017，
  
  Revised：06 December 2017，
  
  Accepted：07 December 2017
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Autore, M. et al. Boron nitride nanoresonators for phonon-enhanced molecular vibrational spectroscopy at the strong coupling limit. Light: Science & Applications, 2, 17172 (2018).
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Autore, M. et al. Boron nitride nanoresonators for phonon-enhanced molecular vibrational spectroscopy at the strong coupling limit. Light: Science & Applications, 2, 17172 (2018). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2017.172.

摘要

Abstract

Enhanced light-matter interactions are the basis of surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA) spectroscopy

and conventionally rely on plasmonic materials and their capability to focus light to nanoscale spot sizes. Phonon polariton nanoresonators made of polar crystals could represent an interesting alternative

since they exhibit large quality factors

which go far beyond those of their plasmonic counterparts. The recent emergence of van der Waals crystals enables the fabrication of high-quality nanophotonic resonators based on phonon polaritons

as reported for the prototypical infrared-phononic material hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). In this work we use

for the first time

phonon-polariton-resonant h-BN ribbons for SEIRA spectroscopy of small amounts of organic molecules in Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Strikingly

the interaction between phonon polaritons and molecular vibrations reaches experimentally the onset of the strong coupling regime

while numerical simulations predict that vibrational strong coupling can be fully achieved. Phonon polariton nanoresonators thus could become a viable platform for sensing

local control of chemical reactivity and infrared quantum cavity optics experiments.

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Keywords

boron nitridephonon polaritonsstrong couplingsurface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopySEIRA

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