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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

Placing graphene on uniaxial substrates may have interesting application potential for graphene-based photonic and optoelectronic devices. Here we analytically derive the dispersion relation for graphene plasmons on uniaxial substrates and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 I. Arrazola , R. Hillenbrand , A. Yu. Nikitin

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

We employ tip-enhanced infrared near-field microscopy to study the plasmonic properties of epitaxial quasi-free-standing monolayer graphene on silicon carbide. The near-field images reveal propagating graphene plasmons, as well as a strong…

We report a first-principles study on electronic structures of the deformed armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNRs). The variation of the energy gap of AGNRs as a function of uniaxial strain displays a zigzag pattern, which indicates that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Lian Sun , Qunxiang Li , Hao Ren , Q. W. Shi , Jinlong Yang , J. G. Hou

The electronic properties of graphene are influenced by both geometric confinement and strain. We study the electronic structure of in-plane bent graphene nanoribbons, systems where confinement and strain are combined. To understand its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-21 S. G. Stuij , P. H. Jacobse , V. Juricic , C. Morais Smith

We study localized plasmons at the nanoscale (nano-plasmons) in graphene. The collective excitations of induced charge density modulations in graphene are drastically changed in the vicinity of a single impurity compared to graphene's bulk…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-19 Hari Dahal , Rodrigo A. Muniz , Stephan Haas , Matthias J. Graf , Alexander V. Balatsky

We present symmetry properties of the lattice vibrations of graphene nanoribbons with pure armchair (AGNR) and zigzag edges (ZGNR). In non-symmorphic nanoribbons the phonon modes at the edge of the Brillouin zone are twofold degenerate,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Roland Gillen , Marcel Mohr , Janina Maultzsch

Recently, it was demonstrated that a graphene/dielectric/metal configuration can support acoustic plasmons, which exhibit extreme plasmon confinement an order of magnitude higher than that of conventional graphene plasmons. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 In-Ho Lee , Luis Martin-Moreno , Daniel A. Mohr , Kaveh Khaliji , Tony Low , Sang-Hyun Oh

The evolution of electronic structure of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) as a function of the number of layers stacked together is investigated using \textit{ab initio} density functional theory (DFT) including interlayer van der Waals…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-28 Neerav Kharche , Yu Zhou , Kevin P. O'Brien , Swastik Kar , Saroj K. Nayak

Transistor structures comprising graphene and sub-wavelength metal gratings hold a great promise for plasmon-enhanced terahertz detection. Despite considerable theoretical effort, little experimental evidence for terahertz plasmons in such…

The significant electron-electron interactions that characterize the {\pi}-electrons of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) necessitate going beyond one-electron tight-binding description. Existing theories of electron-electron interactions in GNRs…

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A theoretical investigation is made of the dispersion characteristics of plasmons in a two-dimensional periodic system of semiconductor (dielectric) cylinders embedded in a dielectric (semiconductor) background. We consider both square and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Manvir S. Kushwaha

The unusual electronic and optical properties of armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) subject to in-plane transverse electric and perpendicular magnetic fields have been systematically investigated. Our calculations were carried…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-29 Thi-Nga Do , Po-Hsin Shih , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang

Sub-wavelength graphene structures support localized plasmonic resonances in the terahertz and mid-infrared spectral regimes. The strong field confinement at the resonant frequency is predicted to significantly enhance the light-graphene…

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

Quantum confinement of graphene carriers is an effective way to engineer its properties. It is commonly realized through physical edges that are associated with the deterioration of mobility and strong suppression of plasmon resonances.…

Van der Waals heterostructures employing graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) crystals have emerged as a promising platform for plasmonics thanks to the tunability of their collective modes with carrier density and record values for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-28 Andrea Tomadin , Marco Polini , Jeil Jung

We study the electronic structure of heterostructures formed by a graphene nanoribbon (GNR) and a transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) monolayer using first-principles. We consider both semiconducting TMDs and metallic TMDs, and different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Yohanes S. Gani , Eric J. Walter , Enrico Rossi