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We study electromagnetic scattering and subsequent plasmonic excitations in periodic grids of graphene ribbons. To address this problem, we develop an analytical method to describe the plasmon-assisted absorption of electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 P. A. D. Gonçalves , E. J. C. Dias , Yu. V. Bludov , N. M. R. Peres

Twisted spin waves attracted research attentions lately and the orbital angular momentum they carry may be utilized in communication and computing technologies. In this work, we manifest by micromagnetic simulations that twisted spin wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Peiyuan Huang1 , Ruifang Wang

We propose a novel spin filter based on a graphene nanoring fabricated above a ferromagnetic strip. The exchange interaction between the magnetic moments of the ions in the ferromagnet and the electron spin splits the electronic states, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Javier Munárriz , Francisco Domínguez-Adame , Pedro A. Orellana , Andrey V. Malyshev

We consider a graphene sheet encapsulated in a two-dimensional metallic grating and a substrate ($\mathrm{Al_{2}O_{3}}$) and subjected to an external magnetic field (in Faraday configuration). The grating consists of a thin perfectly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yu. V. Bludov , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres

Levitated optomechanical systems are rapidly becoming leading tools for precision sensing of forces and accelerations acting on particles in the femtogram to nanogram mass range. These systems enable a high level of control over the…

We have investigated the role of pseudospin polarization in electron wave packet dynamics in pristine graphene and in a graphene antidot lattice subject to an external magnetic field. Employing a Green's function formalism, we show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 R. A. W. Ayyubi , N. J. M. Horing , K. Sabeeh

We show that electron states in disordered graphene, with an onsite potential that induces inter-valley scattering, are localised for all energies at disorder as small as 1/6 of the band width of clean graphene. We clarify that, in order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-08 C. González-Santander , F. Domínguez-Adame , M. Hilke , R. A. Römer

We report on graphene-passivated ferromagnetic electrodes (GPFE) for spin devices. GPFE are shown to act as spin-polarized oxidation-resistant electrodes. The direct coating of nickel with few layer graphene through a readily scalable…

We explore the potential of levitating solids embedded with non-permanent, optically controllable electron spins, which can be used to hyperpolarize their nuclear spin environment with exceptionally long lifetimes. For example,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Marit O. E. Steiner , Julen S. Pedernales , Martin B. Plenio

We propose a theory of ripples in suspended graphene sheets based on two-dimensional elasticity equations that are made discrete on the honeycomb lattice and then periodized. At each point carbon atoms are coupled to Ising spins whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-06 L. L. Bonilla , A. Carpio

Point Projection Microscopy (PPM) is used to image suspended graphene using low-energy electrons (100-200eV). Because of the low energies used, the graphene is neither damaged or contaminated by the electron beam. The transparency of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 J. Y. Mutus , L. Livadaru , J. T. Robinson , R. Urban , M. H. Salomons , M. Cloutier , P. E. Sheehan , R. A. Wolkow

A sheet of graphene under magnetic bias attains anisotropic surface conductivity, opening the door for realizing compact devices such as Faraday rotators, isolators and circulators. In this paper, an accurate and analytical method is…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-23 Mahdi Rahmanzadeh , Behzad Rejaei , Mohammad Memarian , Amin Khavasi

Under conditions where the angular momentum of a ferromagnetic particle is dominated by intrinsic spin, applied torque is predicted to cause gyroscopic precession of the particle. If the particle is sufficiently isolated from the…

We demonstrate a method by which few-layer graphene samples can be etched along crystallographic axes by thermally activated metallic nanoparticles. The technique results in long (>1 micron) crystallographic edges etched through to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-05-08 Sujit S. Datta , Douglas R. Strachan , Samuel M. Khamis , A. T. Charlie Johnson

The specific band structure of graphene, with its unique valley structure and Dirac neutrality point separating hole states from electron states has led to the observation of new electronic transport phenomena such as anomalously quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Nikolaos Tombros , Csaba Jozsa , Mihaita Popinciuc , Harry T. Jonkman , Bart J. van Wees

The electromagnetic mode spectrum of single-layer graphene subjected to a quantizing magnetic field is computed taking into account intraband and interband contributions to the magneto-optical conductivity. We find that a sequence of weakly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-16 A. Ferreira , N. M. R. Peres , A. H. Castro Neto

Graphene is an atomically thin plasmonic medium that supports highly confined plasmon polaritons, or nano-light, with very low loss. Electronic properties of graphene can be drastically altered when it is laid upon another graphene layer,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-25 S. S. Sunku , G. X. Ni , B. -Y. Jiang , H. Yoo , A. Sternbach , A. S. McLeod , T. Stauber , L. Xiong , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , P. Kim , M. M. Fogler , D. N. Basov

We study theoretically the interaction of twisted light with graphene. The light-matter interaction matrix elements between the tight-binding states of electrons in graphene are determined near the Dirac points. We examine the dynamics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 M. B. Farías , G. F. Quinteiro , P. I. Tamborenea

The proximity-induced couplings in graphene due to the vicinity of a ferromagnetic insulator are analyzed. We combine general symmetry principles and simple tight-binding descriptions to consider different orientations of the magnetization.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Vo Tien Phong , Niels R. Walet , Francisco Guinea

The ability to manufacture tailored graphene nanostructures is a key factor to fully exploit its enormous technological potential. We have investigated nanostructures created in graphene by swift heavy ion induced folding. For our…