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Whispering-gallery-mode microcavities are known to have high optical quality factor, making them suitable for nonlinear optical interactions. Here, third-harmonic generation is observed using a relatively small radius wedge silicon oxide…

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

The use of graphene in a form of discontinuous flakes in polymer composites limits the full exploitation of the unique properties of graphene, thus requiring high filler loadings for achieving - for example - satisfactory electrical and…

Graphene is a single layer of covalently bonded carbon atoms, which was discovered only 8 years ago and yet has already attracted intense research and commercial interest. Initial research focused on its remarkable electronic properties,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-06 Callum J. Docherty , Cheng-Te Lin , Hannah J. Joyce , Robin J. Nicholas , Laura M. Herz , Lain-Jong Li , Michael B. Johnston

Graphene-derived nanomaterials are emerging as ideal candidates for postsilicon electronics. Elucidating the electronic interaction between an insulating substrate and few-layer graphene (FLG) films is crucial for device applications. Here,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-05-08 Sujit S. Datta , Douglas R. Strachan , E. J. Mele , A. T. Charlie Johnson

We investigate high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in graphene with a quantum master equation approach. The simulations reproduce the observed enhancement in HHG in graphene under elliptically polarized light [N. Yoshikawa et al, Science…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-03 Shunsuke A. Sato , Hideki Hirori , Yasuyuki Sanari , Yoshihiko Kanemitsu , Angel Rubio

An electromagnetic response of a single graphene layer to a uniform, arbitrarily strong electric field $E(t)$ is calculated by solving the kinetic Boltzmann equation within the relaxation-time approximation. The theory is valid at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 S. A. Mikhailov

Electrically tunable graphene plasmons are anticipated to enable strong light-matter interactions with resonant quantum emitters. However, plasmon resonances in graphene are typically limited to infrared frequencies, below those of optical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Joel D. Cox , F. Javier García de Abajo

Optical second harmonic generation (SHG) is studied from multilayer graphene films in the presence of DC electric current flowing in the sample plane. Graphene layers are manufactured by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) technique and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Anton Y. Bykov , Tatiana V. Murzina , Maxim G. Rybin , Elena D. Obraztsova

High-order frequency mixing in graphene using a two-color radiation field consisting of the fundamental and the second harmonic fields of an ultrashort linearly polarized laser pulse is studied. It is shown that the harmonics originated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Hamlet K. Avetissian , Garnik F. Mkrtchian , Andreas Knorr

The low-energy (intraband) range of the third harmonic generation of graphene in the terahertz regime is governed by the damping terms induced by the interactions. A controlled many-body description of the scattering processes is thus a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Habib Rostami , Emmanuele Cappelluti

Results of room temperature Raman scattering studies of ultrathin graphitic films supported on Si (111)/SiO2 substrates are reported. The results are significantly different from those known for graphite. Spectra were collected using 514 nm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Awnish Gupta , Gugang Chen , P. Joshi , S. Tadigadapa , P. C. Eklund

We have measured the mechanical properties of few-layer graphene and graphite flakes that are suspended over circular holes. The spatial profile of the flake's spring constant is measured with an atomic force microscope. The bending…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-16 Menno Poot , Herre S. J. van der Zant

We present ab initio many-body calculations of the optical absorption in bulk graphite, graphene and bilayer of graphene. Electron-hole interaction is included solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation on top of a GW quasiparticle electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Paolo E. Trevisanutto , Markus Holzmann , Michel Cote , Valerio Olevano

We present an experimental observation of non-linear up- and down-converted optical luminescence of graphene and thin graphite subject to picosecond infrared laser pulses. We show that the excitation yields to a high density electron-hole…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-01 Rainer J. Stoehr , Roman Kolesov , Jens Pflaum , Joerg Wrachtrup

We study the stability of various kinds of graphene samples under soft X-ray irradiation. Our results show that in single layer exfoliated graphene (a closer analogue to two dimensional material), the in-plane carbon-carbon bonds are…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Y. Zhou , C. O. Girit , A. Scholl , C. J. Jozwiak , D. A. Siegel , P. Yu , J. T. Robinson , F. Wang , A. Zettl , A. Lanzara

Tunability of the surface plasmon resonance wavelength is demonstrated by varying the thickness of Al2O3 spacer layer inserted between the graphene and nanoparticles. By varying the spacer layer thickness from 0.3 to 1.8 nm, the resonance…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Jing Niu , Young Jun Shin , Youngbin Lee , Jong-Hyun Ahn , Hyunsoo Yang

Two-dimensional materials constitute an exciting platform for nonlinear optics with large nonlinearities that are tunable by gating. Hence, gate-tunable harmonic generation and intensity-dependent refraction have been observed in e.g.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 F. Hipolito , Darko Dimitrovski , T. G. Pedersen

Graphene and its multilayers have attracted considerable interest owing to the fourfold spin and valley degeneracy of their charge carriers, which enables the formation of a rich variety of broken-symmetry states and raises the prospect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Benjamin E. Feldman , Andrei J. Levin , Benjamin Krauss , Dmitry Abanin , Bertrand. I. Halperin , Jurgen H. Smet , Amir Yacoby

We present a practical scheme to separate the contributions of the electric quadrupole-like and the magnetic dipole-like effects to the forbidden second order optical nonlinear response of graphene, and give analytic expressions for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 J. L. Cheng , N. Vermeulen , J. E. Sipe