In-plane anisotropic and ultra-low-loss polaritons in a natural van der Waals crystal
10.1038/s41586-018-0618-9
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Ma, W., Alonso-González, P., Li, S., Nikitin, A. Y., Yuan, J., Martín-Sánchez, J., Taboada-Gutiérrez, J., Amenabar, I., Li, P., Vélez, S., Tollan, C., Dai, Z., Zhang, Y., Sriram, S., Kalantar-Zadeh, K., Lee, S.-T., Hillenbrand, R., & Bao, Q. (2018). In-plane anisotropic and ultra-low-loss polaritons in a natural van der Waals crystal. Nature, 562(7728), 557–562.

Authors 18
  1. Weiliang Ma (first)
  2. Pablo Alonso-González (additional)
  3. Shaojuan Li (additional)
  4. Alexey Y. Nikitin (additional)
  5. Jian Yuan (additional)
  6. Javier Martín-Sánchez (additional)
  7. Javier Taboada-Gutiérrez (additional)
  8. Iban Amenabar (additional)
  9. Peining Li (additional)
  10. Saül Vélez (additional)
  11. Christopher Tollan (additional)
  12. Zhigao Dai (additional)
  13. Yupeng Zhang (additional)
  14. Sharath Sriram (additional)
  15. Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh (additional)
  16. Shuit-Tong Lee (additional)
  17. Rainer Hillenbrand (additional)
  18. Qiaoliang Bao (additional)
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