Strong plasmon-exciton coupling in transition metal dichalcogenides and plasmonic nanostructures

Achieving strong coupling between emitters and cavity photons holds an important position in the light-matter interaction due to its applications such as polariton lasing, all-optical switches, and quantum information processing. However, room-temperature polaritonic devices with subwavelength dimensions based on strong light-matter coupling are difficult to realize using traditional emitter-cavity coupled systems. In recent years, coupled systems constructed from plasmonic nanostructures and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have shown their potential in achieving room-temperature strong coupling and robustness in the nanofabrication processes. This minireview presents the recent progress in strong plasmon-exciton coupling in such plasmonic-TMD hybrid structures. Differing from a broader scope of strong coupling, we focus on the plasmon-exciton coupling between excitons in TMDs and plasmons in single nanoparticles, nanoparticle-over-mirrors, and plasmonic arrays. In addition, we discuss the future perspectives on the strong plasmon-exciton coupling at few-excitons level and the nonlinear response of these hybrid structures in the strong coupling regime.