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In recent years, we have seen a rapid progress in the field of graphene plasmonics, motivated by graphene's unique electrical and optical properties, tunabilty, long-lived collective excitation and their extreme light confinement. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-13 Tony Low , Phaedon Avouris

In this paper, we predict the existence of low-frequency nonlocal plasmon excitations at the vacuum-surface interface of a superlattice of $N$ graphene layers interacting with a thick conducting substrate. This is different from graphite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Jhao-Ying Wu , M. F. Lin , Paula Fekete

We propose and analyze the detector of modulated terahertz (THz) radiation based on the graphene field-effect transistor with mechanically floating gate made of graphene as well. The THz component of incoming radiation induces resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 D. Svintsov , V. G. Leiman , V. Ryzhii , T. Otsuji , M. S. Shur

Boundaries and edges of a two dimensional system lower its symmetry and are usually regarded, from the point of view of charge transport, as imperfections. Here we present a first study of the behavior of graphene plasmons in a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 Hugen Yan , Zhiqiang Li , Xuesong Li , Wenjuan Zhu , Phaedon Avouris , Fengnian Xia

Plasmon and coupled plasmon-phonon modes in graphene are investigated the-oretically within the diagrammatic self-consistent field theory. It shows that two plasmon modes and four coupled plasmon-phonon modes can be excited via intra-and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-29 H. M. Dong , S. H. Zhang , W. Xu

Coupling of plasmons in graphene at terahert (THz) frequencies with surface plasmons in a heavily-doped substrate is studied theoretically. We reveal that a huge scattering rate may completely damp out the plasmons, so that proper choices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-16 A. Satou , Y. Koseki , V. Ryzhii , V. Vyurkov , T. Otsuji

We propose and discuss terahertz electro-absorption modulators based on graphene plasmonic structures. The active device consists of a self-gated pair of graphene layers, which are patterned to structures supporting THz plasmonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez , Rusen Yan , Mingda Zhu , Debdeep Jena , Lei Liu , Huili Grace Xing

Terahertz (THz) fields are widely applied for sensing, communication and quality control. In future applications, they could be efficiently confined, enhanced and manipulated - well below the classical diffraction limit - through the…

The concept and analysis of a Terahertz (THz) frequency-reconfigurable antenna using graphene are presented. The antenna exploits dipole-like plasmonic resonances that can be frequency-tuned on large range via the electric field effect in a…

We point out that plasmons in doped graphene simultaneously enable low-losses and significant wave localization for frequencies below that of the optical phonon branch $\hbar\omega_{Oph}\approx 0.2$ eV. Large plasmon losses occur in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Marinko Jablan , Hrvoje Buljan , Marin Soljačić

Epitaxial graphene mesas and ribbons are investigated using terahertz (THz) nearfield microscopy to probe surface plasmon excitation and THz transmission properties on the sub-wavelength scale. The THz near-field images show variation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Oleg Mitrofanov , Wenlong Yu , Robert J. Thompson , Yuxuan Jiang , Igal Brener , Wei Pan , Claire Berger , Walter A. de Heer , Zhigang Jiang

Electrically injected terahertz (THz) radiation sources are extremely appealing given their versatility and miniaturization potential, opening the venue for integrated-circuit THz technology. In this work, we show that coherent THz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Pedro Cosme , Hugo Terças

Graphene, owing to its ability to support plasmon polariton waves in the terahertz frequency range, enables the miniaturization of antennas to allow wireless communications among nanosystems. One of the main challenges in the demonstration…

High level of dissipation in normal metals makes challenging development of active and passive plasmonic devices. One possible solution to this problem is to use alternative materials. Graphene is a good candidate for plasmonics in near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Yu. E. Lozovik , I. A. Nechepurenko , A. V. Dorofeenko , E. S. Andrianov , N. M. Chtchelkatchev , A. A Pukhov

Spatial separation of electrons and holes in graphene gives rise to existence of plasmon waves confined to the boundary region. Theory of such guided plasmon modes within hydrodynamics of electron-hole liquid is developed. For plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-19 E. G. Mishchenko , A. V. Shytov , P. G. Silvestrov

Plasmons, which are collective charge oscillations, offer the potential to use optical signals in nano-scale electric circuits. Recently, plasmonics using graphene have attracted interest, particularly because of the tunable plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 N. Kumada , S. Tanabe , H. Hibino , H. Kamata , M. Hashisaka , K. Muraki , T. Fujisawa

We investigate through analytic calculations the surface plasmon dispersion relation for monolayer graphene sheets and a separated parallel pair of graphene monolayers. An approximate form for the dispersion relation for the monolayer case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-21 Choon How Gan , Hong Son Chu , Er Ping Li

We analyze nonlinear optics schemes for generating pairs of quantum entangled plasmons in the terahertz-infrared range in graphene. We predict that high plasmonic field concentration and strong optical nonlinearity of monolayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Zhiyuan Sun , D. N. Basov , M. M. Fogler

Tunable terahertz plasmons are essential for reconfigurable photonics, which have been demonstrated in graphene through gating, though with relatively weak responses. Here, we demonstrate strong terahertz plasmons in graphite thin films via…

Terahertz plasmons and magnetoplasmons propagating along electrically and chemically doped graphene p-n junctions are investigated. It is shown that such junctions support non-reciprocal magnetoplasmonic modes which get concentrated at the…