Alexey Nikitin

Ikerbasque Research Professor, DIPC

Ikerbasque Research Professor at DIPC

Research line:

Theory for optical phenomena in natural (Van der Waals) and artificial low-dimensional materials and metamaterials; hyperbolic light; near-field microscopy.

Previous research experience at the University of Zaragoza and CIC nanoGUNE.

Doctor in Theoretical Physics (2006) from Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering & Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics (Kharkiv, Ukraine).

2025

Article / Tunable Hyperbolic Landau-Level Polaritons in Charge-Neutral Graphene Nanoribbon Metasurfaces

ACS Photonics

Kateryna Domina, Tetiana Slipchenko, D.-H.-Minh Nguyen, Alexey B. Kuzmenko, Luis Martin-MorenoDario Bercioux, Alexey Y. Nikitin

Article / Real-Space Visualization of Canalized Ray Polaritons in a Single Van der Waals Thin Slab

Nano Letters

Terán-García, E.; Lanza, C.; Voronin, K.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Tarazaga Martín-Luengo, A.; Alonso-González, P.

Article / Canalization-based super-resolution imaging using an individual van der Waals thin layer

Science Advances

Duan, J.; Martín-Luengo, A.T.; Lanza, C.; Partel, S.; Voronin, K.; Tresguerres-Mata, A.I.F.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Alonso-González, P.

Article / Polaritonic Fourier crystal

Nature Communications

Menabde, S.G.; Lim, Y.; Voronin, K.; Heiden, J.T.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Lee, S.; Jang, M.S.

Article / Misalignment between the Directions of Propagation and Decay of Nanoscale-Confined Polaritons

Nano Letters

Voronin, K.V.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Tarazaga Martín-Luengo, A.; Alonso-González, P.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Article / Tunable Hyperbolic Landau-Level Polaritons in Charge-Neutral Graphene Nanoribbon Metasurfaces

ACS Photonics

Domina, K.; Slipchenko, T.; Nguyen, D.H.M.; Kuzmenko, A.B.; Martin-Moreno, L.; Bercioux, D.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Article / High-intensity wave vortices around subwavelength holes: From ocean tides to nanooptics

Newton

Domina, K.; Alonso-González, P.; Bylinkin, A.; Barra-Burillo, M.; Tresguerres-Mata, A.I.F.; Alfaro-Mozaz, F.J.; Vélez, S.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Hillenbrand, R.; Bliokh, K.Y.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Article / Directional strong coupling at the nanoscale between hyperbolic polaritons and organic molecules

Nature Photonics

F. Tresguerres-Mata, A.I.; Matveeva, O.G.; Lanza, C.; Álvarez-Cuervo, J.; Voronin, K.V.; Calavalle, F.; Avedissian, G.; Díaz-Núñez, P.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Tarazaga Martín-Luengo, A.; Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; Duan, J.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Bylinkin, A.; Hillenbrand, R.; Mishchenko, A.; Hueso, L.E.; Volkov, V.S.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Alonso-González, P.

Article / Quantitative Analytical Spheroid Model for Scattering-Type Scanning Near-Field Optical Spectroscopy

Advanced Optical Materials

Voronin, K.V.; León, I.H.; Hillenbrand, R.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Review / Roadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials

ACS Photonics

de Abajo, F.J.G.; Basov, D.N.; Koppens, F.H.L.; Orsini, L.; Ceccanti, M.; Castilla, S.; Cavicchi, L.; Polini, M.; Gonçalves, P.A.D.; Costa, A.T.; Peres, N.M.R.; Mortensen, N.A.; Bharadwaj, S.; Jacob, Z.; Schuck, P.J.; Pasupathy, A.N.; Delor, M.; Liu, M.K.; Mugarza, A.; Merino, P.; Cuxart, M.G.; Chávez-Angel, E.; Švec, M.; Tizei, L.H.G.; Dirnberger, F.; Deng, H.; Schneider, C.; Menon, V.; Deilmann, T.; Chernikov, A.; Thygesen, K.S.; Abate, Y.; Terrones, M.; Sangwan, V.K.; Hersam, M.C.; Yu, L.; Chen, X.; Heinz, T.F.; Murthy, P.; Kroner, M.; Smolenski, T.; Thureja, D.; Chervy, T.; Genco, A.; Trovatello, C.; Cerullo, G.; Dal Conte, S.; Timmer, D.; De Sio, A.; Lienau, C.; Shang, N.; Hong, H.; Liu, K.; Sun, Z.; Rozema, L.A.; Walther, P.; Alù, A.; Marini, A.; Cotrufo, M.; Queiroz, R.; Zhu, X.Y.; Cox, J.D.; Dias, E.J.C.; Echarri, A.R.; Iyikanat, F.; Herrmann, P.; Tornow, N.; Klimmer, S.; Wilhelm, J.; Soavi, G.; Sun, Z.; Wu, S.; Xiong, Y.; Matsyshyn, O.; Krishna Kumar, R.; Song, J.C.W.; Bucher, T.; Gorlach, A.; Tsesses, S.; Kaminer, I.; Schwab, J.; Mangold, F.; Giessen, H.; Sánchez, M.S.; Efetov, D.K.; Low, T.; Gómez-Santos, G.; Stauber, T.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Duan, J.; Martín-Moreno, L.; Paarmann, A.; Caldwell, J.D.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Alonso-González, P.; Mueller, N.S.; Volkov, V.; Jariwala, D.; Shegai, T.; van de Groep, J.

2024

Article / Fundamentals of Polaritons in Strongly Anisotropic Thin Crystal Layers

ACS Photonics

Voronin, K.V.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Lanza, C.; Alonso-González, P.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Article / Observation of naturally canalized phonon polaritons in LiV2O5 thin layers

Nature Communications

Ana, A.I.; Lanza, C.; Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; Matson, J.R.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Isobe, M.; Tarazaga Martín-Luengo, A.; Duan, J.; Partel, S.; Vélez, M.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Caldwell, J.D.; Alonso-González, P.

Article / Unveiling the Mechanism of Phonon-Polariton Damping in α-MoO3

ACS Photonics

Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; Zhou, Y.; Tresguerres-Mata, A.I.F.; Lanza, C.; Martínez-Suárez, A.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Duan, J.; Martín, J.I.; Vélez, M.; Prieto, I.; Bercher, A.; Teyssier, J.; Errea, I.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Kuzmenko, A.B.; Alonso-González, P.

Article / Unidirectional ray polaritons in twisted asymmetric stacks

Nature Communications

Álvarez-Cuervo, J.; Obst, M.; Dixit, S.; Carini, G.; F. Tresguerres-Mata, A.I.; Lanza, C.; Terán-García, E.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Álvarez-Tomillo, L.F.; Diaz-Granados, K.; Kowalski, R.; Senerath, A.S.; Mueller, N.S.; Herrer, L.; De Teresa, J.M.; Wasserroth, S.; Klopf, J.M.; Beechem, T.; Wolf, M.; Eng, L.M.; Folland, T.G.; Tarazaga Martín-Luengo, A.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Kehr, S.C.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Caldwell, J.D.; Alonso-González, P.; Paarmann, A.

Article / On-chip phonon-enhanced IR near-field detection of molecular vibrations

Nature Communications

Bylinkin, A.; Castilla, S.; Slipchenko, T.M.; Domina, K.; Calavalle, F.; Pusapati, V.V.; Autore, M.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Martín-Moreno, L.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Koppens, F.H.L.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Twist-tunable in-plane anisotropic polaritonic crystals

Nanophotonics

Capote-Robayna, N.; Tresguerres-Mata, A.I.F.; Tarazaga Martín-Luengo, A.; Terán-García, E.; Martin-Moreno, L.; Alonso-González, P.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Article / Polarisation-dependent Raman enhancement in hexagonal boron nitride membranes

Nanoscale

Rogoża, J.; Binder, J.; Voronin, K.V.; Niehues, I.; Ludwiczak, K.; Dąbrowska, A.K.; Tokarczyk, M.; Bożek, R.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Hillenbrand, R.; Stępniewski, R.; Wysmołek, A.

2023

Article / Dual-Band Coupling of Phonon and Surface Plasmon Polaritons with Vibrational and Electronic Excitations in Molecules

Nano Letters

Bylinkin, A.; Calavalle, F.; Barra-Burillo, M.; Kirtaev, R.V.; Nikulina, E.; Modin, E.; Janzen, E.; Edgar, J.H.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Volkov, V.S.; Vavassori, P.; Aharonovich, I.; Alonso-Gonzalez, P.; Hillenbrand, R.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Article / Near- and Far-Field Observation of Phonon Polaritons in Wafer-Scale Multilayer Hexagonal Boron Nitride Prepared by Chemical Vapor Deposition

Advanced Materials

Calandrini, E.; Voronin, K.; Balci, O.; Barra-Burillo, M.; Bylinkin, A.; Shinde, S.M.; Sharma, S.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Chuvilin, A.; McAleese, C.; Conran, B.R.; Wang, X.; Teo, K.; Volkov, V.S.; Ferrari, A.C.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Twist-tunable polaritonic nanoresonators in a van der Waals crystal

Npj 2d Materials and Applications

Matveeva, O.G.; Tresguerres-Mata, A.I.F.; Kirtaev, R.V.; Voronin, K.V.; Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; Lanza, C.; Duan, J.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Volkov, V.S.; Alonso-González, P.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Article / Multiple and spectrally robust photonic magic angles in reconfigurable α-MoO3 trilayers

Nature Materials

Duan, J.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Lanza, C.; Voronin, K.; Tresguerres-Mata, A.I.F.; Capote-Robayna, N.; Álvarez-Cuervo, J.; Tarazaga Martín-Luengo, A.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Volkov, V.S.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Alonso-González, P.

Article / Terahertz Twistoptics-Engineering Canalized Phonon Polaritons

ACS Nano

Obst, M.; Nörenberg, T.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; de Oliveira, T.V.A.G.; Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; Feres, F.H.; Kaps, F.G.; Hatem, O.; Luferau, A.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Klopf, J.M.; Alonso-González, P.; Kehr, S.C.; Eng, L.M.

2022

Article / Real-space nanoimaging of THz polaritons in the topological insulator Bi2Se3

Nature Communications

Chen, S.; Bylinkin, A.; Wang, Z.; Schnell, M.; Chandan, G.; Li, P.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Law, S.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Negative reflection of nanoscale-confined polaritons in a low-loss natural medium

Science Advances

Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Duan, J.; Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; Ou, Q.; Nikulina, E.; Liu, S.; Edgar, J.H.; Bao, Q.; Giannini, V.; Hillenbrand, R.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Alonso-González, P.

Article / Active and Passive Tuning of Ultranarrow Resonances in Polaritonic Nanoantennas

Advanced Materials

Duan, J.; Alfaro-Mozaz, F.J.; Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; Dolado, I.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Titova, E.; Bylinkin, A.; Tresguerres-Mata, A.I.F.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Liu, S.; Edgar, J.H.; Bandurin, D.A.; Jarillo-Herrero, P.; Hillenbrand, R.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Alonso-González, P.

Article / Germanium Monosulfide as a Natural Platform for Highly Anisotropic THz Polaritons

ACS Nano

Nörenberg, T.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Obst, M.; Wehmeier, L.; Hempel, F.; Klopf, J.M.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Kehr, S.C.; Eng, L.M.; Alonso-González, P.; De Oliveira, T.V.A.G.

Article / Twisted Polaritonic Crystals in Thin van der Waals Slabs

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Capote-Robayna, N.; Matveeva, O.G.; Volkov, V.S.; Alonso-González, P.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Article / Active Tuning of Highly Anisotropic Phonon Polaritons in Van der Waals Crystal Slabs by Gated Graphene

ACS Photonics

Álvarez-Pérez, G.; González-Morán, A.; Capote-Robayna, N.; Voronin, K.V.; Duan, J.; Volkov, V.S.; Alonso-González, P.; Nikitin, A.Y.

2021

Article / Planar refraction and lensing of highly confined polaritons in anisotropic media

Nature Communications

Duan, J.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Tresguerres-Mata, A.I.F.; Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; Voronin, K.V.; Bylinkin, A.; Chang, B.; Xiao, S.; Liu, S.; Edgar, J.H.; Martín, J.I.; Volkov, V.S.; Hillenbrand, R.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Alonso-González, P.

Article / Focusing of in-plane hyperbolic polaritons in van der Waals crystals with tailored infrared nanoantennas

Science Advances

Martín-Sánchez, J.; Duan, J.; Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Voronin, K.V.; Prieto, I.; Ma, W.; Bao, Q.; Volkov, V.S.; Hillenbrand, R.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Alonso-González, P.

Article / Hyperspectral Nanoimaging of van der Waals Polaritonic Crystals

Nano Letters

Alfaro-Mozaz, F.J.; Rodrigo, S.G.; Vélez, S.; Dolado, I.; Govyadinov, A.; Alonso-González, P.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Martín-Moreno, L.; Hillenbrand, R.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Article / Real-space observation of vibrational strong coupling between propagating phonon polaritons and organic molecules

Nature Photonics

Bylinkin, A.; Schnell, M.; Autore, M.; Calavalle, F.; Li, P.; Taboada-Gutièrrez, J.; Liu, S.; Edgar, J.H.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Alonso-Gonzalez, P.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Interband plasmon polaritons in magnetized charge-neutral graphene

Communications Physics

Slipchenko, T.M.; Poumirol, J.M.; Kuzmenko, A.B.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Martín-Moreno, L.

Article / Giant optical anisotropy in transition metal dichalcogenides for next-generation photonics

Nature Communications

Ermolaev, G.A.; Grudinin, D.V.; Stebunov, Y.V.; Voronin, K.V.; Kravets, V.G.; Duan, J.; Mazitov, A.B.; Tselikov, G.I.; Bylinkin, A.; Yakubovsky, D.I.; Novikov, S.M.; Baranov, D.G.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Kruglov, I.A.; Shegai, T.; Alonso-González, P.; Grigorenko, A.N.; Arsenin, A.V.; Novoselov, K.S.; Volkov, V.S.

Article / Photothermal twistronics

Nature Nanotechnology

Nikitin, A.Y.

Article / Enabling propagation of anisotropic polaritons along forbidden directions via a topological transition

Science Advances

Duan, J.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Voronin, K.V.; Prieto, I.; Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; Volkov, V.S.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Alonso-González, P.

Article / Optical magnetic lens: Towards actively tunable terahertz optics

Nanoscale

Shamuilov, G.; Domina, K.; Khardikov, V.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Goryashko, V.

Article / Extracting the infrared permittivity of sio2 substrates locally by near-field imaging of phonon polaritons in a van der waals crystal

Nanomaterials

Aguilar-Merino, P.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; Duan, J.; Prieto, I.; Álvarez-Prado, L.M.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Alonso-González, P.

Article / Nanoscale-Confined Terahertz Polaritons in a van der Waals Crystal

Advanced Materials

de Oliveira, T.V.A.G.; Nörenberg, T.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Wehmeier, L.; Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; Obst, M.; Hempel, F.; Lee, E.J.H.; Klopf, J.M.; Errea, I.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Kehr, S.C.; Alonso-González, P.; Eng, L.M.

2020

Article / Optical magnetic lens: towards actively tunable terahertz optics

Nanoscale

G. Shamuilov, K. Domina, V. Khardikov, A. Y. Nikitin, V. Goryashko

Article / Extremely Confined Acoustic Phonon Polaritons in Monolayer-hBN/Metal Heterostructures for Strong Light-Matter Interactions

ACS Photonics

Yuan, Z.; Chen, R.; Li, P.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Hillenbrand, R.; Zhang, X.

Article / Broad spectral tuning of ultra-low-loss polaritons in a van der Waals crystal by intercalation

Nature Materials

Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Duan, J.; Ma, W.; Crowley, K.; Prieto, I.; Bylinkin, A.; Autore, M.; Volkova, H.; Kimura, K.; Kimura, T.; Berger, M.H.; Li, S.; Bao, Q.; Gao, X.P.A.; Errea, I.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Hillenbrand, R.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Alonso-González, P.

Article / Nanofocusing of acoustic graphene plasmon polaritons for enhancing mid-infrared molecular fingerprints

Nanophotonics

Voronin, K.V.; Aseguinolaza Aguirreche, U.; Hillenbrand, R.; Volkov, V.S.; Alonso-González, P.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Article / Nanoscale Guiding of Infrared Light with Hyperbolic Volume and Surface Polaritons in van der Waals Material Ribbons

Advanced Materials

Dolado, I.; Alfaro-Mozaz, F.J.; Li, P.; Nikulina, E.; Bylinkin, A.; Liu, S.; Edgar, J.H.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Alonso-González, P.; Vélez, S.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Broadband optical properties of monolayer and bulk MoS2

npj 2D Materials and Applications

Ermolaev, G.A.; Stebunov, Y.V.; Vyshnevyy, A.A.; Tatarkin, D.E.; Yakubovsky, D.I.; Novikov, S.M.; Baranov, D.G.; Shegai, T.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Arsenin, A.V.; Volkov, V.S.

Article / Twisted Nano-Optics: Manipulating Light at the Nanoscale with Twisted Phonon Polaritonic Slabs

Nano Letters

Duan, J.; Capote-Robayna, N.; Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Prieto, I.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Alonso-González, P.

Article / Infrared Permittivity of the Biaxial van der Waals Semiconductor α-MoO3 from Near- and Far-Field Correlative Studies

Advanced Materials

Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Folland, T.G.; Errea, I.; Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; Duan, J.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Tresguerres-Mata, A.I.F.; Matson, J.R.; Bylinkin, A.; He, M.; Ma, W.; Bao, Q.; Martín, J.I.; Caldwell, J.D.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Alonso-González, P.

Article / Bonding and Antibonding Modes in Metal–Dielectric–Metal Plasmonic Antennas for Dual-Band Applications

Advanced Optical Materials

Domina, K.L.; Khardikov, V.V.; Goryashko, V.; Nikitin, A.Y.

2019

Article / Launching of hyperbolic phonon-polaritons in h-BN slabs by resonant metal plasmonic antennas

Nature Communications

Pons-Valencia, P.; Alfaro-Mozaz, F.J.; Wiecha, M.M.; Biolek, V.; Dolado, I.; Vélez, S.; Li, P.; Alonso-González, P.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Martín-Moreno, L.; Hillenbrand, R.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Article / Deeply subwavelength phonon-polaritonic crystal made of a van der Waals material

Nature Communications

Alfaro-Mozaz, F.J.; Rodrigo, S.G.; Alonso-González, P.; Vélez, S.; Dolado, I.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Martín-Moreno, L.; Hillenbrand, R.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Article / Fast and Sensitive Terahertz Detection Using an Antenna-Integrated Graphene pn Junction

Nano Letters

Castilla, S.; Terrés, B.; Autore, M.; Viti, L.; Li, J.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Vangelidis, I.; Watanabe, K.; Taniguchi, T.; Lidorikis, E.; Vitiello, M.S.; Hillenbrand, R.; Tielrooij, K.J.; Koppens, F.H.L.

Article / Analytical approximations for the dispersion of electromagnetic modes in slabs of biaxial crystals

Physical Review B

Álvarez-Pérez, G.; Voronin, K.V.; Volkov, V.S.; Alonso-González, P.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Review / Matter manipulation with extreme terahertz light: Progress in the enabling THz technology

Physics Reports

Salén, P.; Basini, M.; Bonetti, S.; Hebling, J.; Krasilnikov, M.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Shamuilov, G.; Tibai, Z.; Zhaunerchyk, V.; Goryashko, V.

2018

Article / In-plane anisotropic and ultra-low-loss polaritons in a natural van der Waals crystal

Nature

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.

Article / Boron nitride nanoresonators for Phonon-Enhanced molecular vibrational spectroscopy at the strong coupling limit

Light Science and Applications

Autore, M.; Li, P.; Dolado, I.; Alfaro-Mozaz, F.J.; Esteban, R.; Atxabal, A.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Alonso-González, P.; Aizpurua, J.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Vélez, S.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Infrared hyperbolic metasurface based on nanostructured van der Waals materials

Science

Li, P.; Dolado, I.; Alfaro-Mozaz, F.J.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Liu, S.; Edgar, J.H.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Vélez, S.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Controlling surface charge and spin density oscillations by Dirac plasmon interaction in thin topological insulators

Physical Review B

Poyli, M.A.; Hrtoň, M.; Nechaev, I.A.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Echenique, P.M.; Silkin, V.M.; Aizpurua, J.; Esteban, R.

Short Survey / Telecom meets terahertz

Nature Photonics

Nikitin, A.Y.

2017

Chapter / World Scientific Handbook of Metamaterials and Plasmonics

S. A. Maier

A. Y. Nikitin

Article / Acoustic Graphene Plasmon Nanoresonators for Field-Enhanced Infrared Molecular Spectroscopy

ACS Photonics

Chen, S.; Autore, M.; Li, J.; Li, P.; Alonso-Gonzalez, P.; Yang, Z.; Martin-Moreno, L.; Hillenbrand, R.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Article / Graphene Plasmon Reflection by Corrugations

ACS Photonics

Slipchenko, T.M.; Nesterov, M.L.; Hillenbrand, R.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Martín-Moreno, L.

Article / Probing low-energy hyperbolic polaritons in van der Waals crystals with an electron microscope

Nature Communications

Govyadinov, A.A.; Konečná, A.; Chuvilin, A.; Vélez, S.; Dolado, I.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Lopatin, S.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Aizpurua, J.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Terahertz Nanofocusing with Cantilevered Terahertz-Resonant Antenna Tips

Nano Letters

Mastel, S.; Lundeberg, M.B.; Alonso-González, P.; Gao, Y.; Watanabe, K.; Taniguchi, T.; Hone, J.; Koppens, F.H.L.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Nanoimaging of resonating hyperbolic polaritons in linear boron nitride antennas

Nature Communications

Alfaro-Mozaz, F.J.; Alonso-González, P.; Vélez, S.; Dolado, I.; Autore, M.; Mastel, S.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Li, P.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Optical nanoimaging of hyperbolic surface polaritons at the edges of van der Waals materials

Nano Letters

Li, P.; Dolado, I.; Alfaro-Mozaz, F.J.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Vélez, S.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Acoustic terahertz graphene plasmons revealed by photocurrent nanoscopy

Nature Nanotechnology

Alonso-González, P.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Gao, Y.; Woessner, A.; Lundeberg, M.B.; Principi, A.; Forcellini, N.; Yan, W.; Vélez, S.; Huber, A.J.; Watanabe, K.; Taniguchi, T.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Polini, M.; Hone, J.; Koppens, F.H.L.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Electrically controlled terahertz magneto-optical phenomena in continuous and patterned graphene

Nature Communications

Poumirol, J.M.; Liu, P.Q.; Slipchenko, T.M.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Martin-Moreno, L.; Faist, J.; Kuzmenko, A.B.

2016

Article / Nanofocusing of Hyperbolic Phonon Polaritons in a Tapered Boron Nitride Slab

ACS Photonics

Nikitin, A.Y.; Yoxall, E.; Schnell, M.; Vélez, S.; Dolado, I.; Alonso-Gonzalez, P.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Real-space mapping of tailored sheet and edge plasmons in graphene nanoresonators

Nature Photonics

Nikitin, A.Y.; Alonso-González, P.; Vélez, S.; Mastel, S.; Centeno, A.; Pesquera, A.; Zurutuza, A.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Koppens, F.H.L.; Hillenbrand, R.

2015

Article / Direct observation of ultraslow hyperbolic polariton propagation with negative phase velocity

Nature Photonics

Yoxall, E.; Schnell, M.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Txoperena, O.; Woessner, A.; Lundeberg, M.B.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Koppens, F.H.L.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Plasmons in cylindrical 2D materials as a platform for nanophotonic circuits

ACS Photonics

Soto Lamata, I.; Alonso-González, P.; Hillenbrand, R.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Article / Stacking Structures of Few-Layer Graphene Revealed by Phase-Sensitive Infrared Nanoscopy

ACS Nano

Kim, D.S.; Kwon, H.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Ahn, S.; Martín-Moreno, L.; García-Vidal, F.J.; Ryu, S.; Min, H.; Kim, Z.H.

2014

Article / Efficient coupling of light to graphene plasmons by compressing surface polaritons with tapered bulk materials

Nano Letters

Nikitin, A.Y.; Alonso-González, P.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Plasmons in graphene on uniaxial substrates

Applied Physics Letters

Arrazola, I.; Hillenbrand, R.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Article / Controlling graphene plasmons with resonant metal antennas and spatial conductivity patterns

Science

Alonso-González, P.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Golmar, F.; Centeno, A.; Pesquera, A.; Vélez, S.; Chen, J.; Navickaite, G.; Koppens, F.; Zurutuza, A.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L.E.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Anomalous reflection phase of graphene plasmons and its influence on resonators

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Nikitin, A.Y.; Low, T.; Martin-Moreno, L.

Article / Giant enhancement of transmitted light and its localization due to elastic surface plasmon–polariton scattering by a thin dielectric diffraction grating

Plasmonics

Sterligov, V.A.; Grytsaienko, I.O.; Men, Y.; Nesterov, M.L.; Nikitin, A.Y.

2013

Article / Strong plasmon reflection at nanometer-size gaps in monolayer graphene on SiC

Nano Letters

Chen, J.; Nesterov, M.L.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Thongrattanasiri, S.; Alonso-González, P.; Slipchenko, T.M.; Speck, F.; Ostler, M.; Seyller, T.; Crassee, I.; Koppens, F.H.L.; Martin-Moreno, L.; García De Abajo, F.J.; Kuzmenko, A.B.; Hillenbrand, R.

Article / Faraday rotation due to excitation of magnetoplasmons in graphene microribbons

ACS Nano

Tymchenko, M.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Martín-Moreno, L.

Article / Scattering of graphene plasmons by defects in the graphene sheet

ACS Nano

Garcia-Pomar, J.L.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Martin-Moreno, L.

Article / Analytical solution for the diffraction of an electromagnetic wave by a graphene grating

Journal of Optics (United Kingdom)

Slipchenko, T.M.; Nesterov, M.L.; Martin-Moreno, L.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Editorial / Special issue on graphene nanophotonics

Journal of Optics (United Kingdom)

Nikitin, A.Y.; Maier, S.A.; Martin-Moreno, L.

2021

Active tuning of phonon polaritons in twisted van der Waals heterostructures

UPV/EHU

Excitation and propagation of the polaritons in slabs of biaxial crystals

MIPT

2020

Anisotropic phonon polaritons in twisted slabs of biaxial van der Waals crystals

UPV/EHU

2016

Infrared spectroscopy of antennas on hexagonal boron nitride

UPV/EHU

2015

Theoretical study of h-BN hyperbolic nanoantennas

University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

2025

Conference Paper | Deep Learning and Nano-optics: Designing nanoscale polariton propagations in twisted van der Waals multilayers

International Conference on Metamaterials Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics - Conference Paper

Álvarez-Tomillo, L.F.; Álvarez-Cuervo, J.; Calvo-Barlés, P.; Rodrigo, S.G.; Terángarcía, E.; Taragaza Martín-Luengo, A.; Voronin, K.V.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Martín-Moreno, L.; Alonso-González, P.

2023

Conference organization | N2D 2023

N2D 2023 - Conference organization

Alexey Nikitin, Tony Low, Lusi Martin Moreno

Conference Paper | Twisted Polaritonic Crystals in Thin Anisotropic Van der Waals Slabs

International Conference on Metamaterials Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics - Conference Paper

Capote-Robayna, N.; Matveeva, O.; Volkov, V.S.; Alonso-González, P.; Nikitin, A.Y.

Conference Paper | Twist-tunable polaritonic nanoresonators in a van der Waals crystal

International Conference on Metamaterials Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics - Conference Paper

Matveeva, O.G.; Tresguerres-Mata, A.I.F.; Kirtaev, R.V.; Voronin, K.V.; Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; Lanza-García, C.; Duan, J.; Martín-Sánchez, J.; Volkov, V.S.; Alonso-González, P.; Nikitin, A.Y.

2021

Conference organization | Graphene and 2D Materials (METANANO 2021)

Graphene and 2D Materials (METANANO 2021) - Conference organization

Alexey Nikitin, Valentyn Volkov

Conference organization | Nanophotonics of 2D materials, N2D 2021

Nanophotonics of 2D materials, N2D 2021 - Conference organization

Alexey Nikitin, Tony Low, Luis Martin Moreno

Invited talk | Graphene plasmonics

Summer school on photonics of 2D materials - Invited talk

Alexey Nikitin

2020

Conference organization | Chair of Nanophotonics of 2D materials, N2D 2020

Nanophotonics of 2D materials, N2D 2020 - Conference organization

A. Y. Nikitin, T.Low, L. Martin Moreno

Invited talk | Hyperbolic polaritons in van der Waals crystal slabs

RSC Desktop Seminar: Nanoscience Research in Manipulation of the Polaritons in Nanomaterials - Invited talk

Alexey Nikitin

2019

Conference organization | Chair of Nanophotonics of 2D materials, N2D 2019

Nanophotonics of 2D materials, N2D 2019 - Conference organization

A.Y. Nikitin, H. Yan, T. Low, L. Martin-Moreno

Conference organization | Chair of 2D Materials 2019

2D Materials 2019 - Conference organization

A.Y. Nikitin, V. S. Volkov

Conference organization | Chair of Student workshop on modern physics: Photonics and Extreme Light

Student workshop on modern physics: Photonics and Extreme Light - Conference organization

A. Y. Nikitin, V. Goryashko

Conference organization | Chair of DIPC-MIPT workshop

DIPC-MIPT workshop - Conference organization

A. Y. Nikitin, V. Volkov

Conference Paper | In-Plane Anisotropic and Ultra-Low Loss Polaritons in a Natural van der Waals Crystal

International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics - Conference Paper

Taboada-Gutiérrez, J.; Ma, W.; Alonso-González, P.; Li, S.; Nikitin, A.Y.; Yuan, J.; Martín-Sánchez, 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.

Invited talk | Anisotropic propagation of phonon-polaritons in van der Waals materials

MRS Spring Meeting 2019 - Invited talk

A. Y. Nikitin

Invited talk | Nanophotonics in Graphene and van der Waals Structures

PIERS 2019 - Invited talk

A. Y. Nikitin

Invited talk | Graphene plasmonics in THz

EMN Meeting on Terahertz 2019 - Invited talk

A. Y. Nikitin

2018

Invited talk | Controlling hyperbolic light with optical antennas and superlattices

The 3rd International Conference on Physics of 2D Crystals (ICP2C3) - Invited talk

A. Y. Nikitin

Invited talk | Manipulating polaritons in 2D materials

Nanolight 2018 - Invited talk

A. Y. Nikitin

Invited talk | Near-field optics with van der Waals materials

METANANO 2018 - Invited talk

A. Y. Nikitin

2015

Invited talk | Two-dimensional nano-optics with graphene

Interaction effects in graphene and related materials - Invited talk

A. Yu. Nikitin

2014

Invited talk | Plasmonic and magnetoplasmonic effects in graphene

Nanolight 2014 - Invited talk

A. Yu. Nikitin

Oral presentation | Faraday rotation due to magnetoplasmons in graphene ribbons

Graphene Spain 2014 - Oral presentation

A. Yu. Nikitin

2013

Invited talk | Diffraction, absorption and scattering in structures with graphene plasmons.

Graphene Nanophotonics - Invited talk

A. Yu. Nikitin

Oral presentation | Plasmons get involved: resonant electro-magnetic effects in graphene

Nanolight - Oral presentation

A. Yu. Nikitin, F. Guinea, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, and L. Martin-Moreno