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Revisiting hyperbolic materials for deep-subwavelength polaritonics

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Natural hyperbolic materials hybridized with nanostructures provide deep-subwavelength-scale confinement of an electromagnetic field.

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Fig. 1: Deep-subwavelength localization of hyperbolic phonon-polaritons.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea

    Seokwoo Kim, Yeongtae Jang & Junsuk Rho

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea

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  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea

    Junsuk Rho

  4. POSCO-POSTECH-RIST Convergence Research Center for Flat Optics and Metaphotonics, Pohang, Republic of Korea

    Junsuk Rho

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