In this talk I will discuss strong light-matter interactions achieved by using transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) as the resonant material in both plasmonic nanocavities and Mie resonance sustained by the high-refractive index of the material itself. As a result of this interaction, one typically observes the emergence of new polaritonic eigenstates. These states are of hybrid nature and possess both light and matter characteristics, which is reflected in vacuum Rabi splitting, observed in the absorption or transmission spectra. Because of the hybrid nature of these states, the excited state temporal dynamics can be significantly altered in comparison to the uncoupled system dynamics. This, in turn, can have profound effects on the emission and photochemical processes. I will show that TMDCs are a particularly interesting polaritonic system in this sense."
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