Abstract:

The advent of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their extraordinary optical properties has allowed the visualization of nanolight in the form of electrically tunable (active) plasmon polaritons in graphene or low-loss phonon polaritons in h-BN or alfa-MoO₃, introducing a very encouraging arena for scientifically ground-breaking discoveries. In these talks I will show our latest studies on both the visualization and control of nanolight in 2D platforms.

Profile：

Pablo Alonso-González holds a Distinguished Researcher position at the University of Oviedo (Spain) where he leads the Quantum Nanooptics Lab at the Department of Physics. He obtained his PhD degree in Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2009). From 2009 to 2015 he was post-doctoral researcher at the Nanooptics group at CIC nanoGUNE in San Sebastian (Basque Country, Spain). Alonso-González´s research activities are focused on materials science and nanophotonics with special emphasis on the study of the opto-electronic properties of novel 2D materials at the nanoscale. In 2014 he received the Spanish Royal Society of Physics (RSEF-BBVA) prize in the category of young experimental scientist, and in 2021 he was selected as a finalist for the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2021 in Physical Sciences. In 2016 and 2022 he was awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) with a Starting and a Consolidator Grant project, respectively.