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Graphene, a unique two-dimensional material of carbon in a honeycomb lattice, has brought remarkable breakthroughs across the domains of electronics, mechanics, and thermal transport, driven by the quasiparticle Dirac fermions obeying a…

We demonstrate a novel scheme to dramatically enhance both the second- and third-harmonic generation in a graphene-insulator-graphene metasurface. The key underlying feature of our approach is the existence of a double-resonance phenomenon,…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-16 Jian Wei You , Nicolae C. Panoiu

Layered topological insulators, for example, Bi$_2$Se$_3$ are optically hyperbolic materials in a range of THz frequencies. Such materials possess deeply subdiffractional, highly directional collective modes: hyperbolic phonon-polaritons.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Jhih-Sheng Wu , D. N. Basov , M. M. Fogler

We introduce the concept of nonlinear graphene metasurfaces employing the controllable interaction between a graphene layer and a planar metamaterial. Such hybrid metasurfaces support two types of subradiant resonant modes, asymmetric modes…

The use of metamaterial as a way to mitigate the negative effects of absorption in metals on the Purcell effect in metal-dielectric structures is investigated. A layered metal-dielectric structure is considered as an anisotropic medium in…

In this paper, we predict the existence of low-frequency nonlocal plasmon excitations at the vacuum-surface interface of a superlattice of $N$ graphene layers interacting with a thick conducting substrate. This is different from graphite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Jhao-Ying Wu , M. F. Lin , Paula Fekete

Transient optical heating provides an efficient way to trigger phase transitions in naturally occurring media through ultrashort laser pulse irradiation. A similar approach could be used to induce topological phase transitions in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Renwen Yu , Rasoul Alaee , Robert W. Boyd , F. Javier García de Abajo

Hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs) are engineered materials with a hyperbolic isofrequency surface, enabling a range of novel phenomena and applications including negative refraction, enhanced sensing, and subdiffraction imaging, focusing, and…

This article aims to propose a novel analytical model for anisotropic multi-layer elliptical structures incorporating graphene layers. The multi-layer structure is formed of various magnetic materials. An external magnetic bias has been…

We show that hyperbolic electromagnetic metamaterials implemented as multilayers based on two material constituents arranged according to Thue-Morse (ThM) aperiodic sequence may exhibit strong nonlocal effects, manifested as the appearance…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Silvio Savoia , Giuseppe Castaldi , Vincenzo Galdi

We demonstrate that use of the field effect to tune the effective optical parameters of a layered hyperbolic metamaterial leads to topological transitions in its dispersion characteristics in the optical regime. Field effect gating…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-11 Georgia T. Papadakis , Harry A. Atwater

We investigate the absorption properties of graphene-based anisotropic metamaterial structures where the metamaterial layer possesses an electromagnetic response corresponding to a near-zero permittivity. We find that through analytical and…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-25 Jacob Linder , Klaus Halterman

Control of the electromagnetic waves in nano-scale structured materials is central to the development of next generation photonic circuits and devices. In this context, hyperbolic metamaterials, where elliptical isofrequency surfaces are…

The hybridization of hyperbolic Polaritonics with THz Plasmonics has attracted immense attention due to its fascinating applications in this region. However, to effectively enhance the performance of these coupled modes, one way is the…

In this paper, a broadband tunable polarization converter based on graphene metasurfaces is proposed. This polarization converter works in the terahertz (THz) frequency region, using the advantage of graphene characteristics to have a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Behnaz Bakhtiari , Homayoon Oraizi , Ali Abdolali

We theoretically study the propagation of large-wavevector waves (volume plasmon polaritons) in multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials with two levels of structuring. We show that when the parameters of a subwavelength metal-dielectric…

We present terahertz (THz) metasurfaces based on aligned rectangular graphene patches placed on top of a dielectric layer to convert the transmitted linearly polarized waves to circular or elliptical polarized radiation. Our results lead to…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-30 Tianjing Guo , Christos Argyropoulos

In this paper, a photonic crystal containing graphene and metamaterial layers is investigated. The absorption spectrum of the structure in the terahertz range is obtained using the transfer matrix method. The results show that by adding a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 M. Montaseri , M. Hosseini , M. J. Karimi

Polar dielectrics with low crystal symmetry and sharp phonon resonances can support hyperbolic shear polaritons - highly confined surface modes with frequency-dependent optical axes and asymmetric dissipation features. So far, these modes…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-12 Enrico Maria Renzi , Emanuele Galiffi , Xiang Ni , Andrea Alù

We explore the near-field radiative thermal energy transfer properties of hyperbolic metamaterials. The presence of unique electromagnetic states in a broad bandwidth leads to super-planckian thermal energy transfer between metamaterials…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-21 Yu Guo , Zubin Jacob