Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 790-798Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b05056
Keywords
2D semiconductors; plasmonic lattices; exciton-plasmon polaritons; collective polariton mode; polaritonic band gap
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- U.S. Army Research Office [W911NF-12-R-0012-03]
- NSF under the NSF 2-DARE program [EFMA-1542879]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51525202]
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Two-dimensional semiconductors host excitons with very large oscillator strengths and binding energies due to significantly reduced carrier screening. Two-dimensional semiconductors integrated with optical cavities are emerging as a promising platform for studying strong light-matter interactions as a route to explore a variety of exotic many-body effects. Here, in few-layered WS2 coupled with plasmonic nanoparticle lattices, we observe the formation of a collective polaritonic mode near the exciton energy and the formation of a complete polariton band gap with energy scale comparable to the exciton-plasmon coupling strength. A coupled oscillator model reveals that the collective mode arises from the cooperative coupling of the excitons to the plasmonic lattice diffraction orders via exciton-exciton interactions, leading to ultrastrong coupling. The emergence of the collective mode is accompanied by a superlinear increase of the polariton mode splitting as a function of the square root of the exciton oscillator strength. The presence of these many body effects, which are enhanced in systems which lack bulk polarization, not only allows the formation of a collective mode with periodically varying field profiles, but also further enhances the exciton-plasmon coupling. By integrating the hybrid WS2-plasmonic lattice device with a field-effect transistor, we demonstrate active tuning of the collective mode and the polariton band gap. We also report electrically tunable waveguiding in the polariton band gap region through a line defect, which can be turned off with gate bias that can extinguish the collective mode and the polariton band gap. These systems provide new opportunities for obtaining a deeper and systematic understanding of many body cooperative phenomena in two-dimensional materials coupled with periodic photonic systems and for designing more complex and actively controllable polaritonic devices including switchable polariton lasers, waveguides, and optical logical elements.
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