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The quest for ultrafast plasmonics

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Black phosphorous, a van der Waals layered semiconductor, is reported to reveal a plasmonic response that can be initiated by photoexcitation with femtosecond pulses.

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Figure 1: Methods for controlling plasmons in van der Waals materials and the corresponding timescales.

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  1. Dmitri N. Basov is in the Department of Physics, Columbia University, 538 West 120th Street, New York, New York 10027, USA,

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  2. Michael M. Fogler is at the Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0315, USA,

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Basov, D., Fogler, M. The quest for ultrafast plasmonics. Nature Nanotech 12, 187–188 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2016.283

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