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We report the plasmon dispersion characteristics of intrinsic and extrinsic armchair graphene nanoribbons of atomic width N = 5 using a p_z-orbital tight binding model with third-nearest-neighbor (3nn) coupling. The coupling parameters are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-24 David R. Andersen , Hassan Raza

Graphene is a two-dimensional carbon material with a honeycomb lattice and Dirac-type low-energy spectrum. In a strong magnetic field, where Coulomb interactions dominate against disorder broadening, quantum Hall ferromagnetic states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Naokazu Shibata , Kentaro Nomura

Plasmon are collective oscillations of mobile electrons with dynamics controlled by their charge stiffness("Drude weight"). Using terahertz spacetime metrology, we probe Plasmon dynamics of mono- and bi-layer graphene. In both systems, the…

Self-consistent field theory is used to obtain the non-local plasmon dispersion relation of monolayer graphene which is Coulomb-coupled to a thick conductor. We calculate numerically the undamped plasmon excitation spectrum for arbitrary…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-24 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , N. J. M. Horing

The tight-binding model is closely associated with the modified layer-based random-phase approximation to thoroughly investigate the electron-electron interactions in sliding bilayer graphene. The Coulomb interactions and intralayer and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-13 Chiun-Yan Lin , Ming-Fa Lin

Artifical superlattice (SL) potentials have been employed extensively for band structure engineering of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac electron gas in graphene. While such engineered electronic band structures can modify optical or plasmonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Minwoo Jung , Gennady Shvets

It is highly desirable to integrate graphene into existing semiconductor technology, where the combined system is thermodynamically stable yet maintain a Dirac cone at the Fermi level. Firstprinciples calculations reveal that a certain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-16 Yuanchang Li , Pengcheng Chen , Gang Zhou , Jia Li , Jian Wu , Bing-Lin Gu , S. B. Zhang , Wenhui Duan

Plasmon in graphene possesses many unique properties. It originates from the collective motion of massless Dirac fermions and the carrier density dependence is distinctively different from conventional plasmons. In addition, graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Shenyang Huang , Chaoyu Song , Guowei Zhang , Hugen Yan

We theoretically study the dynamic screening properties of bilayer graphene within the random phase approximation assuming quadratic band dispersion and zero gap for the single-particle spectrum. We calculate the frequency dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-18 Rajdeep Sensarma , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

Graphene plasmons have recently attracted a great deal of attention because of their tunability, long lifetime, and high degree of field confinement in the vertical direction. Nearby metal gates have been shown to modify the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Alessandro Principi , Erik van Loon , Marco Polini , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

The pseudo-magnetic field generated by mechanical strain in graphene can have dramatic consequences on the behavior of electrons and holes. Here we show that pseudo-magnetic field fluctuations present in crumpled graphene can induce…

Although plasmon modes exist in doped graphene, the limited range of doping achieved by gating restricts the plasmon frequencies to a range that does not include visible and infrared. Here we show, through the use of first-principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Sharmila N. Shirodkar , Marios Mattheakis , Paul Cazeaux , Prineha Narang , Marin Soljačić , Efthimios Kaxiras

By solving two-component spinor equation for massless Dirac Fermions, we show that graphene under a periodic external magnetic field exhibits a unique energy spectrum: At low energies, Dirac Fermions are localized inside the magnetic region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Shuanglong Liu , Argo Nurbawono , Na Guo , Chun Zhang

We develop a theory for the long-wavelength plasma oscillation of a collection of charged massless Dirac particles in a solid, as occurring for example in doped graphene layers, interacting via the long-range Coulomb interaction. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-22 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the spectrum of graphene plasmons which arise when a pair of sheets are confined between conducting materials. The associated enhanced local fields may be employed in the manipulation of light on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Godfrey Gumbs , Dipendra Dahal , Antonios Balassis

We calculate the dynamic polarizability under the random phase approximation for the dice lattice. This two-dimensional system gives rise to massless Dirac fermions with pseudospin-1 in the low-energy quantum excitation spectrum, providing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 John D. Malcolm , Elisabeth J. Nicol

Ab initio density functional theory (DFT) simulations were used to investigate an influence of electric field, parallel to single and multilayer graphene on its electron dispersion relations close to K point. It was shown that for both…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-09 Stanisław Krukowski , Jakub Sołtys , Jolanta Borysiuk , Jacek Piechota

In this minireview, we explore the main features and the prospect of plasmonics with two-dimensional semiconductors. Plasmonic modes in each class of van der Waals semiconductors have their own peculiarities, along with potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Amit Agarwal , Miriam S. Vitiello , Leonardo Viti , Anna Cupolillo , Antonio Politano

Graphene is a valuable 2D platform for plasmonics as illustrated in recent THz and mid-infrared optics experiments. These high-energy plasmons however, couple to the dielectric surface modes giving rise to hybrid plasmon-polariton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 H. Graef , D. Mele , M. Rosticher , C. Stampfer , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , E. Bocquillon , G. Fève , J-M. Berroir , E. H. T. Teo , B. Plaçais

Graphene is a novel two-dimensional material with fascinating electrodynamic properties like the ability to support collective electron oscillations (plasmons) accompanied by tight confinement of electromagnetic fields. Our goal is to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-15 Marinko Jablan