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A near-field scanning optical microscope is used to locally induce photocurrent in a graphene transistor with high spatial resolution. By analyzing the spatially resolved photo-response, we find that in the n-type conduction regime a p-n-p…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Mueller , F. Xia , M. Freitag , J. Tsang , Ph. Avouris

We theoretically show the negative refraction existing in M\"{o}bius molecules. The negative refractive index is induced by the non-trivial topology of the molecules. With the M\"{o}bius boundary condition, the effective electromagnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Y. N. Fang , Yao Shen , Qing Ai , C. P. Sun

We proposed a minimal model to describe the Floquet band structure of two-dimensional materials with light-induced resonant inter-band transition. We applied it to graphene to study the band features caused by the light irradiation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Mou Yang , Zhi-Jun Cai , Rui-Qiang Wang , Yan-Kui Bai

The proposed semiclassical theory predicts two types of oscillations in the flow of current injected from a point source near a ballistic p-n junction in graphene in a strong magnetic field. One originates from the classical effect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Aavishkar A. Patel , Nathan Davies , Vadim Cheianov , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We investigate electronic transport through a graphene $n$-$p$ junction in the quantum Hall effect regime at high perpendicular magnetic field, when the filling factors in the $n$-doped and $p$-doped regions are fixed to 2 and -2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-30 Qianfan Ma , François D. Parmentier , Preden Roulleau , Geneviève Fleury

We generate experimentally a honeycomb refractive index pattern in an atomic vapor cell using electromagnetically-induced transparency. We study experimentally and theoretically the propagation of polarized light beams in such "photonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-13 Zhaoyang Zhang , Shun Liang , Feng Li , Shaohuan Ning , Yiming Li , G. Malpuech , Yanpeng Zhang , Min Xiao , D. Solnyshkov

We perform electrical transport measurements in graphene with several sample geometries. In particular, we design ``invasive'' probes crossing the whole graphene sheet as well as ``external'' probes connected through graphene side arms. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-07 B. Huard , N. Stander , J. A. Sulpizio , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Given a point S and any irreducible algebraic curve C in P^2 (with any type of singularities), we consider the caustic of reflection defined as the Zariski closure of the envelope of the reflected lines from the point S on the curve C. We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-21 Alfrederic Josse , Francoise Pene

The gate-voltage (VG) dependence of the contact resistance (RC) in graphene field-effect transistors is characterized by the transmission line model. The RC-VG characteristics of Ag, Cu, and Au contacts display a dip around the charge…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-04-30 Ryo Nouchi , Tatsuya Saito , Katsumi Tanigaki

The behavior of the TE and TM electromagnetic waves in graphene at the interface between two semi-infinite dielectric media is studied. The dramatic influence on the TE waves propagation even at very small changes in the optical contrast…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 O. V. Kotov , M. A. Kol'chenko , Yu. E. Lozovik

Recent experimental work on locally gated graphene layers resulting in p-n junctions have revealed quantum Hall effect in their transport behavior. We explain the observed conductance quantization which is fractional in the bipolar regime…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-07 D. A. Abanin , L. S. Levitov

A beam of linearly polarized light transmitted through magnetically biased graphene can have its axis of polarization rotated by several degrees after passing the graphene sheet. This large Faraday effect is due to the action of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-06 Jürgen Schiefele , Luis Martin-Moreno , Francisco Guinea

We develop an approach to use nanostructured plasmonic materials as a non-magnetic negative-refractive index system at optical and near-infrared frequencies. In contrast to conventional negative refraction materials, our design does not…

Dark matter caustics have specific density profiles and, therefore, precisely calculable gravitational lensing properties. We present a formalism which simplifies the relevant calculations, and apply it to four specific cases. In the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Charmousis , V. Onemli , Z. Qiu , P. Sikivie

The relativistic nature of Dirac electrons and holes in graphene profoundly affects the way they interact with impurities. Signatures of the relativistic behavior have been observed recently in scanning tunneling measurements on individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-24 Atikur Rahman , Janice Wynn Guikema , Nina Markovic

We theoretically demonstrate the capability of a ferromagnetic-normal (FN) interface in graphene to focus an electron-wave with a certain spin direction. The essential feature is the negative refraction Klein tunneling, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ali G. Moghaddam , Malek Zareyan

Theoretical results are reported, concerning the reflection and transmission of few-cycle laser pulses on a very thin conducting layer, which may represent the surface current density of the massless charges of graphene. It is shown that…

Optics · Physics 2013-04-08 Sandor Varro

We investigate the conductance of normal-conductor/graphene/normal-conductor (NGN) junctions for arbitrary on-site potentials in the normal and graphitic parts of the system. We find that a ballistic NGN junction can display insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-11 John P Robinson , Henning Schomerus

We theoretically study negative refraction of inhomogeneous waves at the interface of lossy isotropic media. We obtain explicit (up to the sign) expressions for the parameters of a wave transmitted through the interface between two lossy…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-19 Vladimir Yu. Fedorov , Takashi Nakajima

Two different formulae relating the index of refraction $n$ of gases for atom waves to the scattering amplitude have been published. We show here that these two formulae are not consistent with the definition of the total scattering…