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Metamaterials have recently established a new paradigm for enhanced light absorption in state-of-the-art photodetectors. Here, we demonstrate broadband, highly efficient, polarization-insensitive, and gate-tunable photodetection at room…

We study the electromagnetic properties of a metamaterial consisting of polarizable (nano)particles and a single graphene sheet placed at the interface between two dielectrics. We show that the particle's polarizability is renormalized…

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Graphene photonics has emerged as a promising platform for providing desirable optical functionality. However, graphene's monolayer-scale thickness fundamentally restricts the available light matter interaction, posing a critical design…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-11 PoHan Chang , Charles Lin , Amr S. Helmy

The combination of plasmonic nanoparticles and graphene enhances the responsivity and spectral selectivity of graphene-based photodetectors. However, the small area of the metal-graphene junction, where the induced electron-hole pairs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 T. J. Echtermeyer , S. Milana , U. Sassi , A. Eiden , M. Wu , E. Lidorikis , A. C. Ferrari

We consider a hybrid structure formed by graphene and an insulating antiferromagnet, separated by a dielectric of thickness up to $d\simeq 500 \,nm$. When uncoupled, both graphene and the antiferromagnetic surface host their own polariton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-28 Y. V. Bludov , J. N. Gomes , G. A. Farias , J. Fernández-Rossier , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres

Singular graphene metasurfaces, conductivity gratings realized by periodically suppressing the local doping level of a graphene sheet, have recently been proposed to efficiently harvest THz light and couple it to surface plasmons over broad…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 E. Galiffi , P. A. Huidobro , P. A. D. Gonçalves , N. A. Mortensen , J. B. Pendry

We explore the unusual non-reciprocal and diffraction-less properties of surface plasmon polaritons propagating in drift-biased graphene-based metasurfaces. We show that applying a drift-current on a graphene sheet leads to extremely…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 D. Correas-Serrano , J. S. Gomez-Diaz

Surface plasmon, with its unique capability to concentrate light into sub-wavelength volume, has enabled great advances in photon science, ranging from nano-antenna and single-molecule Raman scattering to plasmonic waveguide and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jonghwan Kim , Hyungmok Son , David J. Cho , Baisong Geng , Will Regan , Sufei Shi , Kwanpyo Kim , Alex Zettl , Yuen-Ron Shen , Feng Wang

Enhancing the interaction strength between graphene and light is an important objective for those seeking to make graphene a relevant material for future optoelectronic applications. Plasmonic modes in graphene offer an additional pathway…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 Min Seok Jang , Victor W. Brar , Michelle C. Sherrott , Josue J. Lopez , Laura K. Kim , Seyoon Kim , Mansoo Choi , Harry A. Atwater

The paper deals with the theoretical consideration of surface plasmon-polaritons in the graphene monolayer, embedded into dielectric with spatially separated gain and losses. It is demonstrated, that presence of gain and losses in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 O. A. Zhernovnykova , O. V. Popova , G. V. Deynychenko , T. I. Deynichenko , Yuliy V. Bludov

Near perfect infrared light absorption at multi-spectral wavelengths has been experimentally demonstrated by using multiplexed metal square plasmon resonance structures. Optical power absorption over 95% has been observed in dual-band…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Boyang Zhang , Joshua Hendrickson , Junpeng Guo

Plasmonics can be used to improve absorption in optoelectronic devices and has been intensively studied for solar cells and photodetectors. Graphene has recently emerged as a powerful plasmonic material. It shows significantly less losses…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jianfa Zhang , Zhihong Zhu , Wei Liu , Xiaodong Yuan , Shiqiao Qin

Experimental realization of efficient graphene-based absorbers is a challenging task due to the low carrier mobility in processed graphene. In this paper, we circumvent this problem by placing uniform graphene sheets on metallic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Xuchen Wang , Sergei A. Tretyakov

We show that graphene possesses a strong nonlinear optical response in the form of multi-plasmon absorption, with exciting implications in classical and quantum nonlinear optics. Specifically, we predict that graphene nano-ribbons can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Marinko Jablan , Darrick E. Chang

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…

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

Surface plasmon resonances of metallic nanostructures offer great opportunities to guide and manipulate light on the nanoscale. In the design of novel plasmonic devices, a central topic is to clarify the intricate relationship between the…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-11 Sanghyeon Yu , Habib Ammari

Graphene supports surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) with extreme field confinement and electrical tunability, but these waves are typically short-lived due to ohmic loss in the sheet. We show that embedding graphene in an active dielectric…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-24 Andrianos Sygrimis , Giorgos P. Tsironis

The interaction of light with matter has triggered the interest of scientists for long time. The area of plasmonics emerges in this context through the interaction of light with valence electrons in metals. The random phase approximation in…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-07 Marios Mattheakis , Giorgos P. Tsironis , Efthimios Kaxiras

Plasmonic systems have attracted remarkable interest due to their application to the subwavelength confinement of light and the associated enhancement of light-matter interactions. However, this requires light to dwell at a given spatial…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-22 Lizhen Lu , Emanuele Galiffi , Kun Ding , Tianyu Dong , Xikui Ma , John Pendry