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We found strong similarities between the gravitational lensing and the conventional optical lensing. The similarities imply a graded refractive index description of the light deflection in gravitational field. We got a general approach to…

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We fabricate and investigate high quality graphene devices with contactless, suspended top gates, and demonstrate formation of graphene pnp junctions with tunable polarity and doping levels. The device resistance displays distinct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-12 Jairo Velasco , Gang Liu , Wenzhong Bao , Chun Ning Lau

We studied theoretically the effect of a low concentration of adsorbed polar molecules on the optical conductivity of graphene, within the Kubo linear response approximation. Our analysis is based on a continuum model approximation that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Horacio Falomir , Marcelo Loewe , Enrique Muñoz

Mid-infrared spectroscopy is essential for chemical identification and compositional analysis, due to the existence of characteristic molecular absorption fingerprints. However, it is very challenging to determine the refractive index of an…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-16 Xiaofei Xiao , Stefan A. Maier , Vincenzo Giannini

Unipolar transport is demonstrated in a bilayer graphene with a series of p-n junctions and is controlled by electrostatic biasing by a comb-shaped top gate. The OFF state is induced by multiple barriers in the p-n junctions, where the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 Hisao Miyazaki , Song-Lin Li , Shu Nakaharai , Kazuhito Tsukagoshi

The linear electrodynamic properties of graphene -- the frequency-dependent conductivity, the transmission spectra and collective excitations -- are briefly outlined. The non-linear frequency multiplication effects in graphene are studied,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-27 S. A. Mikhailov

We study the problem of gravitational lensing by an isothermal elliptical density galaxy in the presence of a tidal perturbation. When the perturbation is fairly strong and oriented near the galaxy's minor axis, the lens can produce image…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. R. Keeton , S. Mao , H. J. Witt

Caustics are natural phenomena in which nature concentrates the energy of waves. Although, they are known mostly in optics, caustics are intrinsic to all wave phenomena. For example, studies show that fluctuations in the profile of an ocean…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Akbar Safari , Robert Fickler , Miles J. Padgett , Robert W. Boyd

The first-order interaction correction to the irreducible polarization function of pristine graphene is studied at arbitrary relation between momentum and frequency. The results are used to calculate the dielectric function and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-20 Inti Sodemann , Michael M. Fogler

In this work, we present numerical results for the second and third order conductivities of the plain graphene and gapped graphene monolayers associated with the second and third harmonic generation, the optical rectification and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 G. B. Ventura , D. J. Passos , J. M. Viana Parente Lopes , J. M. B. Lopes dos Santos

Graphene on a dielectric substrate exhibits spatial doping inhomogeneities, forming electron-hole puddles. Understanding and controlling the latter is of crucial importance for unraveling many of graphene's fundamental properties at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. C. Martin , S. Samaddar , B. Sacépé , A. Kimouche , J. Coraux , F. Fuchs , B. Grévin , H. Courtois , C. B. Winkelmann

We discuss a novel kind of nonlinear coupler with one channel filled with a negative index material (NIM). The opposite directionality of the phase velocity and the energy flow in the NIM channel facilitates an effective feedback mechanism…

We show that opacity of a clean multilayer graphene flake depends on the helicity of the circular polarized electromagnetic radiation. The effect can be understood in terms of the pseudospin selection rules for the interband optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Maxim Trushin , John Schliemann

In this paper we show that a negative index of refraction is not a direct implication of transformation optics with orientation-reversing diffeomorphisms. Rather a negative index appears due to a specific choice of sign freedom.…

Optics · Physics 2011-02-02 Luzi Bergamin , Alberto Favaro

This work analyses how impurities and vacancies on the surface of a graphene sample affect its optical conductivity and plasmon excitations. The disorder is analysed in the self-consistent Green's function formulation and nonlocal effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Giovanni Viola , Tobias Wenger , Jari Kinaret , Mikael Fogelström

We revisit the light or heat-induced changes in topography of initially flat sheets of solid that elongate or contract along patterned, in-plane director fields. For radial or azimuthal directors, negative Gaussian curvature is generated --…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Carl D. Modes , Mark Warner

We reveal that phononic thermal transport in graphene is not immune to grain boundaries (GBs) aligned along the direction of the temperature gradient. Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations uncover a large reduction in the phononic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-12 Zhen Tong , Alessandro Pecchia , ChiYung Yam , Traian Dumitricǎ , Thomas Frauenheim

We have theoretically investigated the electronic and magnetic properties of graphene whose zigzag edges are oxidized. The alteration of these properties by adsorption of $\mathrm{H_{2}O}$ and $\mathrm{NH_3}$ molecules have been considered.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Julia Berashevich , Tapash Chakraborty

Negative refraction is such a prominent electromagnetic phenomenon that most researchers believe it can only occur in artificially engineered metamaterials. In this article, we report negative refraction for all incident angles for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-02 Jingbo Sun , Ji Zhou , Lei Kang , Rui Wang , Xianguo Meng , Bo Li , Feiyu Kang , Longtu Li

We study the effect of trigonal warping on the focussing of electrons by n-p junctions in graphene. We find that perfect focussing, which was predicted for massless Dirac fermions, is only preserved for one specific sample orientation. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-25 K. J. A. Reijnders , M. I. Katsnelson