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Experimental evidence of mode-selective evanescent power coupling at telecommunication frequencies with efficiencies up to 75 % from a tapered optical fiber to a carefully designed metal nanoparticle plasmon waveguide is presented. The…

We show that plasmons in two-dimensional graphene can have net gain at terahertz frequencies. The coupling of the plasmons to interband electron-hole transitions in population inverted graphene layers can lead to plasmon amplification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Farhan Rana , Faisal R. Ahmad

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…

Graphene plasmons have recently attracted a great deal of attention because of their tunability, long lifetime, and high degree of field confinement in the vertical direction. Nearby metal gates have been shown to modify the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Alessandro Principi , Erik van Loon , Marco Polini , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

Ferromagnetism in graphene is fascinating, but it is still a big challenge for practical applications due to the weak magnetization. In order to enhance the magnetization, here, we design plasma-enabled graphene nanopetals with ultra-long…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-10 Z. J. Yue , D. H. Seo , K. Ostrikov , X. L. Wang

The unique optical and electronic properties of graphene allow one to realize active optical devices. While several types of graphene-based photonic modulators have already been demonstrated, the potential of combining the versatility of…

It is shown that monolayer graphene deposited on a spatially-periodic gate behaves as a polaritonic crystal. Its band structure depending on the applied gate voltage is studied. The scattering of electromagnetic radiation from such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-07 Yuliy V. Bludov , Nuno M. R. Peres , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy

We introduce a novel strategy for controlling the temporal evolution of a quantum system at the nanoscale. Our method relies on the use of graphene plasmons, which can be electrically tuned in frequency by external gates. Quantum emitters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Alejandro Manjavacas , Sukosin Thongrattanasiri , Darrick E. Chang , F. Javier García de Abajo

In this paper, we proposed a theoretical model in the far-infrared and terahertz (THz) bands, which is a dumbbell-shaped graphene metamaterial arrays with a combination of graphene nanorod and two semisphere-suspended heads. We report a…

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

Graphene supports surface plasmon polaritons with comparatively slow propagation velocities in the THz region, which becomes increasingly interesting for future communication technologies. This ability can be used to realize compact…

We consider a periodically gated two-dimensional electron system, with a central gate finger biased independently creating a tunable plasmonic cavity in a planar plasmonic crystal. We demonstrate that the plasmons resonantly excited in the…

Optics · Physics 2012-12-12 Arthur R. Davoyan , Vyacheslav V. Popov , Sergey A. Nikitov

A metal nanoparticle plasmon waveguide for electromagnetic energy transport utilizing dispersion engineering to dramatically increase lateral energy confinement via a two-dimensional pattern of Au dots on an optically thin Si membrane is…

Experimental and theoretical studies on ratchet effects in graphene with a lateral superlattice excited by alternating electric fields of terahertz frequency range are presented. A lateral superlatice deposited on top of monolayer graphene…

Quantum confinement of graphene carriers is an effective way to engineer its properties. It is commonly realized through physical edges that are associated with the deterioration of mobility and strong suppression of plasmon resonances.…

We measured a change in the current transport of an antenna-coupled, multi-gate, GaAs/AlGaAs field-effect transistor when terahertz electromagnetic waves irradiated the transistor and attribute the change to bolometric heating of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Gregory C. Dyer , Gregory R. Aizin , Sascha Preu , N. Q. Vinh , S. James Allen , John L. Reno , Eric A. Shaner

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

We demonstrate that surface plasmon polaritons can be guided by nanometer scale dielectric waveguides. In a test experiment plasmons were coupled to a curved 3 micrometer radius dielectric stripe, which was 200 nm wide and 138 nm thick…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Yu-Ju Hung , Christopher C. Davis

Graphene hybrids, made of thin insulators, graphene, and metals can support propagating acoustic plasmons (AGPs). The metal screening modifies the dispersion relation of usual graphene plasmons leading to slowly propagating plasmons, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-27 Tatiana G. Rappoport , Yuliy V. Bludov , Frank H. L. Koppens , Nuno M. R. Peres

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