Surface Phonon Polariton Modes in Suspended Monolayer Hexagonal Boron Nitrides

Authors

  • M. Y. Musa Audu Bako College of Agriculture, Dambatta, Kano
  • G. S. Shehu Department of Electrical Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria
  • M. A. Husein Kookmin University, Seoul-Korea
  • M. Imran University of Buner Khyber Pukhunkhwam, Pakistan
  • H. M. Murtala Federal University Gusau, Nigeria
  • Y. Jibril Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.

Keywords:

Phonon polaritons, Hexagonal boron nitrides, Skin depth, Transverse electric, Ultrathin

Abstract

Dispersion properties and characteristics of transverse magnetic (TM) and transverse electric (TE) surface phonon polaritons (SPhP) in suspended monolayer hexagonal boron nitrides (hBN) was studied extensively.  The analytical results show that the hBN based TM (TE) phonon polaritons exist in restsrahlen bands when imaginary surface conductivity is positive. The effective mode index of TM phonon polaritons is much higher than that of TE phonon polaritons with respective values of  and  which makes TM SPhP more promising in the practical realization. In addition, the propagation length of TE SPhP is less lossy and surpass that of TM SPhP by factor of . This study compares these important properties and sheds more insight into their applications in optical communications, photonics and optoelectronics devices.

Author Biographies

M. Y. Musa, Audu Bako College of Agriculture, Dambatta, Kano

Department of Mechanization and Engineeering, PhD

M. A. Husein, Kookmin University, Seoul-Korea

Department of Electrical Engineering,

M. Imran, University of Buner Khyber Pukhunkhwam, Pakistan

Department of Electronics,

H. M. Murtala, Federal University Gusau, Nigeria

Department of Electrical Engineering,

Y. Jibril, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.

Department of Electrical Engineering,

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2021-07-31

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