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We propose an approach to enhance and direct the spontaneous emission from isolated emitters embedded inside hyperbolic metamaterials into single photon beams. The approach rests on collective plasmonic Bloch modes of hyperbolic…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-08 Ward D. Newman , Cristian L. Cortes , Zubin Jacob

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 report a double-layer electronic system made of two closely-spaced but electrically isolated graphene monolayers sandwiched in boron nitride. For large carrier densities in one of the layers, the adjacent layer no longer exhibits a…

Graphene is a unique material to study fundamental limits of plasmonics. Apart from the ultimate single-layer thickness, its carrier concentration can be tuned by chemical doping or applying an electric field. In this manner the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 Dmitry A. Kuzmin , Igor V. Bychkov , Vladimir G. Shavrov , Vasily V. Temnov

We theoretically investigate the terahertz dielectric response of a semiconductor slab hosting an infrared photoinduced grating. The periodic structure is due to the charge carries photo-excited by the interference of two tilted infrared…

The recent advent of artificial structures has triggered the emergence of fascinating phenomena that could not exist in natural compounds. A prime example is twisted multilayers, i.e., moir\'e superlattices represented by magic-angle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-13 Shun Asano , Youichi Yanase

Designing and realizing switchable cavities at the infrared and THz frequencies is crucial for achieving novel integrated photonic circuits. Semiconductors like SiC support the propagation of surface phonon polaritons with the ability to…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-13 Mohsen Janipour , Matthias Hensen , Walter Pfeiffer

Coupling photonic cavity fields to electronic degrees of freedom in 2D materials introduces an additional control knob to the toolbox of solid-state engineering. Here we demonstrate a subtle competition between cavity frequency and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi , Jennifer Cano , Ceren B. Dag

Acoustic plasmons in graphene exhibit strong confinement induced by a proximate metal surface and hybridize with phonons of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) when these materials are combined in a van der Waals heterostructure, thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Ícaro R. Lavora , Z. H. Tao , H. M. Dongd , Andrey Chaves , F. M. Peeters , Milorad V. Milosevic

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…

A novel broadband technique to effectively launch plasmons along a single graphene layer at terahertz (THz) frequencies is proposed. To this end, the coupling of the electromagnetic wave from a readily available plasmonic waveguide…

Optics · Physics 2014-04-08 Mohammad Ali Khorrami , Samir El-Ghazaly

We report terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (TDTS) experiments demonstrating strong light-matter coupling in a terahertz (THz) LC-metamaterial in which the phonon resonance of a topological insulator (TI) thin film is coupled to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Sirak M. Mekonen , Deepti Jain , Seongshik Oh , N. P. Armitage

We propose and analyze the detector of modulated terahertz (THz) radiation based on the graphene field-effect transistor with mechanically floating gate made of graphene as well. The THz component of incoming radiation induces resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 D. Svintsov , V. G. Leiman , V. Ryzhii , T. Otsuji , M. S. Shur

Hyperbolic metasurfaces based on van der Waals (vdW) materials support propagation of extremely anisotropic polaritons towards nanoscale light compression and manipulation, and thus has great potential in the applications of planar…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-16 Xueli Wang , Kaili Chang , Weitao Liu , Hongqin Wang , Kaihui Liu , Ke Chen

We propose the concept, synthesis, analysis, and design of graphene-based plasmonic tunable low-pass filters operating in the THz band. The proposed structure is composed of a graphene strip transferred onto a dielectric and a set of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 D. Correas Serrano , J. S. Gomez Diaz , J. Perruisseau-Carrier , A. Alvarez Melcon

Recently graphene was introduced with tunable ripple texturing, a nanofabric enabled by graphene's remarkable elastic properties. However, one can further envision sandwiching the ripples, thus constructing composite nanomaterial, graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-12 Pekka Koskinen

In recent years, there has been notable advancement in programmable metasurfaces, primarily attributed to their cost-effectiveness and capacity to manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves. Nevertheless, a significant limitation of numerous…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-11 Parsa Farzin , Amir saman Nooramin , Mohammad Soleimani

The optimization of laser resonators represents a crucial issue for the design of terahertz semiconductor lasers with high gain and low absorption loss. In this paper, we put forward and optimize the surface plasmonic metal waveguide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Alexander A. Dubinov , Andrey Bylinkin , Vladimir Ya. Aleshkin , Victor Ryzhii , Taiichi Otsuji , Dmitry Svintsov

We calculate the dispersion equations for magnetoplasmons in a single layer, a pair of parallel layers, a graphite bilayer and a superlattice of graphene layers in a perpendicular magnetic field. We demonstrate the feasibility of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Oleg L. Berman , Godfrey Gumbs , Yurii E. Lozovik

Harnessing electronic excitations involving coherent coupling to bosonic modes is essential for the design and control of emergent phenomena in quantum materials [1]. In situations where charge carriers induce a lattice distortion due to…