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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

Graphene plasmons are rapidly emerging as a viable tool for fast electrical manipulation of light. The prospects for applications to electro-optical modulation, optical sensing, quantum plasmonics, light harvesting, spectral photometry, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-20 F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

Using monolayer graphene as a model system for a purely two-dimensional (2D) electron gas, we show by energy electron loss spectroscopy, highly resolved both in energy and momentum, that there is a significant probability for the excitation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-17 H. Pfnür , T. Langer , J. Baringhaus , C. Tegenkamp

We analytically obtain the dispersion relations for transverse-electric (TE) and transverse-magnetic (TM) surface plasmon-polaritons in a nonlinear two-dimensional (2D) conducting material lying between two Kerr-type dielectric media. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Vera Andreeva , Mitchell Luskin , Dionisios Margetis

Graphene can support surface plasmons with higher confinement, lower propagation loss, and substantially more tunable response compared to usual metal-based plasmonic structures. Interestingly, plasmons in graphene can strongly couple with…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-03 Tianjing Guo , Christos Argyropoulos

We consider the optical properties of finite systems composed of a series of graphene sheets separated by thin dielectric layers. Because these systems respond as conductors to electric fields in the plane of the graphene sheets and as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 Ashley M DaSilva , You-Chia Chang , Ted Norris , Allan H MacDonald

An acoustic plasmonic mode in a graphene-dielectric-metal heterostructure has recently been spotlighted as a superior platform for strong light-matter interaction. It originates from the coupling of graphene plasmon with its mirror image…

We predict the existence of transverse electric (TE) plasmons in bilayer graphene. We find that their plasmonic properties are much more pronounced in bilayer than in monolayer graphene, in a sense that they can get more localized at…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-27 Marinko Jablan , Hrvoje Buljan , Marin Soljačić

The suite of highly confined polaritons supported by two-dimensional (2D) materials constitutes a versatile platform for nano-optics, offering the means to channel light on deep-subwavelength scales. Graphene, in particular, has attracted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 T. P. Rasmussen , P. A. D. Gonçalves , Sanshui Xiao , Sebastian Hofferberth , N. Asger Mortensen , Joel D. Cox

Among its many outstanding properties, graphene supports terahertz surface plasma waves -- sub-wavelength charge density oscillations connected with electromagnetic fields that are tightly localized near the surface[1,2]. When these waves…

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

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

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

An analytical theory of the nonlinear electromagnetic response of a two-dimensional (2D) electron system in the second order in the electric field amplitude is developed. The second-order polarizability and the intensity of the second…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. A. Mikhailov

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

The unique gate-voltage dependent optical properties of graphene make it a promising electrically-tunable plasmonic material. In this work, we proposed in-situ control of the polarization of nanoantennas by combining plasmonic structures…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-26 Yuwei Qin , Xiaoyan Y. Z. Xiong , Wei E. I. Sha , Li Jun Jiang

We present a robust and exact method for calculating the polarization function and plasmon dispersion of graphene, for an arbitrary (isotropic) non-equilibrium carrier distribution, within random phase approximation (RPA). This is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 A. Freddie Page , Joachim M. Hamm , Ortwin Hess

It is shown that a system of two coupled planar material sheets possessing surface mode (polariton) resonances can be used for the purpose of evanescent field restoration and, thus, for the sub-wavelength near-field imaging. The sheets are…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stanislav Maslovski , Sergei Tretyakov , Pekka Alitalo

We analyze the features of the graphene mono- and multilayer reflectance in the far-infrared region as a function of frequency, temperature, and carrier density taking the intraband conductance and the interband electron absorbtion into…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 L. A. Falkovsky

It is shown that a graphene layer on top of a dielectric slab can dramatically influence the ability of this dielectric for radiative heat exchange. Effect of graphene is related to thermally excited plasmons. Frequency of these resonances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 V. B. Svetovoy , P. J. van Zwol , J. Chevrier