Thermal and electrostatic tuning of surface phonon-polaritons in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures

Phonon polaritons are promising for infrared applications due to a strong light-matter coupling and subwavelength energy confinement they offer. Yet, the spectral narrowness of the phonon bands and difficulty to tune the phonon polariton properties hinder further progress in this field. SrTiO3 - a p...

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Hlavní autori: Zhou, Yixi, Waelchli, Adrien, Boselli, Margherita, Crassee, Iris, Bercher, Adrien, Luo, Weiwei, Duan, Jiahua, J L M van Mechelen, van der Marel, Dirk, Teyssier, Jérémie, Rischau, Carl Willem, Korosec, Lukas, Gariglio, Stefano, Triscone, Jean-Marc, Kuzmenko, Alexey B
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Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 13.11.2023
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Current carriers
Electron gas
Heterostructures
Perovskites
Phonons
Polaritons
Strontium titanates
Surface charge
Temperature dependence
Tuning
ISSN:2331-8422
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Shrnutí:Phonon polaritons are promising for infrared applications due to a strong light-matter coupling and subwavelength energy confinement they offer. Yet, the spectral narrowness of the phonon bands and difficulty to tune the phonon polariton properties hinder further progress in this field. SrTiO3 - a prototype perovskite oxide - has recently attracted attention due to two prominent far-infrared phonon polaritons bands, albeit without any tuning reported so far. Here we show, using cryogenic infrared near-field microscopy, that long-propagating surface phonon polaritons are present both in bare SrTiO3 and in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures hosting a two-dimensional electron gas. The presence of the two-dimensional electron gas increases dramatically the thermal variation of the upper limit of the surface phonon polariton band due to temperature dependent polaronic screening of the surface charge carriers. Furthermore, we demonstrate a tunability of the upper surface phonon polariton frequency in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 via electrostatic gating. Our results suggest that oxide interfaces are a new platform bridging unconventional electronics and long-wavelength nanophotonics.
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ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2312.03711