{"id":5679,"date":"2024-05-27T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2024-07-08T13:58:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T18:58:27","slug":"guided-polaritons-along-the-forbidden-direction-in-moo3-with-geometrical-confinement-published-in-nano-letters-selected-as-vinse-spotlight-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/2024\/05\/guided-polaritons-along-the-forbidden-direction-in-moo3-with-geometrical-confinement-published-in-nano-letters-selected-as-vinse-spotlight-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGuided Polaritons along the Forbidden Direction in MoO3 with Geometrical Confinement\u201d published in Nano Letters, selected as VINSE Spotlight Publication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5682\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1669\/2024\/05\/1-2.png\" alt=\"1\" width=\"558\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1669\/2024\/05\/1-2.png 558w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1669\/2024\/05\/1-2-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Mingze He and Levi Hoogendoorn! Their article \u201cGuided Polaritons along the Forbidden Direction in MoO3 with Geometrical Confinement\u201d has been selected as a VINSE spotlight publication.<\/p>\n<p>Mingze He is a 2023 Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Mechanical Engineering under the direction of Dr. Joshua D. Caldwell. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the City University of New York with Dr. Andrea Al\u00f9 after graduation to further expand his research on light-matter interaction. In this recent publication co-led by a\u00a0REU student, Levi Hoogendoorn, they report a guided mode in an in-plane hyperbolic material (\u03b1-MoO<sub>3<\/sub>) for polariton propagation engineering. In a pristine MoO<sub>3<\/sub>, light cannot travel along the [001] crystal direction due to the hyperbolic shaped isofrequency curve, thus referred to as &#8220;forbidden direction&#8221;. However, upon geometrical confinement in the [100] axis, a guided mode is formed and the wave is directed along the &#8220;forbidden direction&#8221;. This work reveals a possibility for manipulating HPhPs and paves the way for promising applications in nanophotonics based on natural van der Waals materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vinse\/NanoLetters_2023_He.pdf\">Read Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Mingze He and Levi Hoogendoorn! Their article \u201cGuided Polaritons along the Forbidden Direction in MoO3 with Geometrical Confinement\u201d has been selected as a VINSE spotlight publication. Mingze He is a 2023 Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Mechanical Engineering under the direction of Dr. Joshua D. Caldwell. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9966,"featured_media":5682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,35],"tags":[432,208,37],"class_list":["post-5679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-spotlight-publications","tag-levi-hoogendoorn","tag-mingze-he","tag-spotlight-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5694,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions\/5694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vinsenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}