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Controlling, detecting and generating propagating plasmons by all-electrical means is at the heart of on-chip nano-optical processing. Graphene carries long-lived plasmons that are extremely confined and controllable by electrostatic…

Plasmons in low-dimensional systems respresent an important tool for coupling energy into nanostructures and the localization of energy on the scale of only a few nanometers. Contrary to ordinary surface plasmons of metallic bulk materials,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 H. Pfnür , C. Tegenkamp , L. Vattuone

Graphene is used as the thinnest possible spacer between gold nanoparticles and a gold substrate. This creates a robust, repeatable, and stable sub-nanometre gap for massive plasmonic field enhancements. White light spectroscopy of single…

The interaction of fast charged particles with graphene layers can generate electromagnetic modes. This wake effect has been recently proposed for short-wavelength, high-gradient particle acceleration and for obtaining brilliant radiation…

Plasmon collective excitations are studied in a planar graphene superlattice formed by periodically alternating regions of gapless graphene and of its gapped modification. The plasmon dispersion law is determined both for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-03 P. V. Ratnikov , A. P. Silin

We develop a theory to model the interaction of graphene substrate with localized plasmon resonances in metallic nanoparticles. The influence of a graphene substrate on the surface plasmon resonances is described using an effective…

Plasmons in two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) strips with grounded electrodes (a gate or side contacts) are investigated. We consider two systems: (a) the 2DEG strip with a highly conducting gate and (b) the 2DEG strip with semi-infinite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Satou , V. Ryzhii

It is shown that thermally excited plasmon-polariton modes can strongly mediate, enhance and \emph{tune} the near-field radiation transfer between two closely separated graphene sheets. The dependence of near-field heat exchange on doping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Ognjen Ilic , Marinko Jablan , John D. Joannopoulos , Ivan Celanovic , Hrvoje Buljan , Marin Soljačić

We introduce graphene antidot lattice waveguides: nanostructured graphene where a region of pristine graphene is sandwiched between regions of graphene antidot lattices. The band gap in the surrounding antidot lattices enable localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 Jesper Goor Pedersen , Tue Gunst , Troels Markussen , Thomas Garm Pedersen

We study surface waves localized near a surface of a semi-infinite dielectric medium covered by a layer of graphene in the presence of a strong external magnetic field. We demonstrate that both TE-TM hybrid surface plasmons can propagate…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ivan Iorsh , Ilya Shadrivov , Pavel Belov , Yuri Kivshar

The extraordinary properties of graphene make it a very promising material for use in optoelectronics. However, this is still a nascent field, where some basic properties of the electromagnetic field in graphene must be explored. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Yu. Nikitin , F. Guinea , F. J. Garcia-Vidal , L. Martin-Moreno

We study analytically the plasmonic modes in the graphene-coated dielectric nanowire, based on the explicit form of nonlinear surface conductivity of graphene. The propagation constants of different plasmonic modes can be tuned by the input…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-26 Rujiang Li , Xiao Lin , Hongsheng Chen , Shisheng Lin , Xianmin Zhang , Erping Li

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

Graphene plasmons were predicted to possess ultra-strong field confinement and very low damping at the same time, enabling new classes of devices for deep subwavelength metamaterials, single-photon nonlinearities, extraordinarily strong…

A variety of different graphene plasmonic structures and devices have been proposed and demonstrated experimentally. Plasmon modes in graphene microstructures interact strongly via the depolarization fields. An accurate quantitative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Parinita Nene , Jared H. Strait , Wei-Min Chan , Christina Manolatou , Joshua W. Kevek , Sandip Tiwari , Paul L. McEuen , Farhan Rana

The plasmon modes of pristine and impurity doped graphene are calculated, using a real-space theory which determines the non-local dielectric response within the random phase approximation. A full diagonalization of the polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Rodrigo A. Muniz , Hari P. Dahal , A. V. Balatsky , Stephan Haas

We propose a scheme to directionally couple light into graphene plasmons by placing a graphene sheet on a magneto-optical substrate. When a magnetic field is applied parallel to the surface, the graphene plasmon dispersion relation becomes…

Optics · Physics 2015-01-30 Fangli Liu , Cheng Qian , Y. D. Chong

We study the properties of edge plasmons in two-component electron liquids in the presence of pseudomagnetic fields, which have opposite signs for the two different electronic populations and therefore preserve the time-reversal symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Alessandro Principi , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Giovanni Vignale

Graphene offers a possibility for actively controlling plasmon confinement and propagation by tailoring its spatial conductivity pattern. However, implementation of this concept has been hampered because uncontrollable plasmon reflection is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Ngoc Han Tu , Katsumasa Yoshioka , Satoshi Sasaki , Makoto Takamura , Koji Muraki , Norio Kumada

Localized plasmons in metallic nanostructures have been widely used to enhance nonlinear optical effects due to their ability to concentrate and enhance light down to extreme-subwavelength scales. As alternatives to noble metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Joel D. Cox , F. Javier Garcia de Abajo