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High performance integrated electro-optic modulators operating at low temperature are critical for optical interconnects in cryogenic applications. Existing integrated modulators, however, suffer from reduced modulation efficiency or…

We demonstrate a high-contrast electro-optic modulation of a photonic crystal nanocavity integrated with an electrically gated monolayer graphene. A high quality (Q) factor air-slot nanocavity design is employed for high overlap between the…

Graphene nanostructures that support surface plasmons have been utilized to create a variety of dynamically tunable light modulators, motivated by theoretical predictions of the potential for unity absorption in resonantly-excited monolayer…

A tunable graphene-based reflective cell operating at THz is proposed for use in reconfigurable-beam reflectarrays, or similarly to implement the so-called generalized law of reflection. The change in the complex conductivity of graphene…

Electrically tuneable high mobility charges on graphene yield an efficient electro-optical platform to control and manipulate terahertz (THz) waves. Real-world applications require a multiplex THz device with efficient modulation over a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Yury Malevich , M. Said Ergoktas , Gokhan Bakan , Pietro Steiner , Coskun Kocabas

Graphene is of interest in the development of next-generation electronics due to its high electron mobility, flexibility and stability. However, graphene transistors have poor on/off current ratios because of the absence of a bandgap. One…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-03 Shaorui Li , Jiaheng Li , Yongchao Wang , Chenglin Yu , Yaoxin Li , Wenhui Duan , Yayu Wang , Jinsong Zhang

We present fabrication and optical characterization of micro-cavities made of multilayer graphene (MLG) cantilevers clamped by metallic electrodes and suspended over Si/Si02 substrate. Graphene cantilevers act as a semi-transparent mirrors…

Graphene has recently been shown to possess giant nonlinearity; however, the utility of this nonlinearity is limited due to high losses and small interaction volume. We show that by performing waveguide engineering to graphene's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 Kelvin J. A. Ooi , Lay Kee Ang , Dawn T. H. Tan

Oscillators, which produce continuous periodic signals from direct current power, are central to modern communications systems, with versatile applications such as timing references and frequency modulators. However, conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Changyao Chen , Sunwoo Lee , Vikram V. Deshpande , Gwan-Hyoung Lee , Michael Lekas , Kenneth Shepard , James Hone

Two-dimensional (2d) nano-electronics, plasmonics, and emergent phases require clean and local charge control, calling for layered, crystalline acceptors or donors. Our Raman, photovoltage, and electrical conductance measurements combined…

Reconfigurable photonic systems featuring minimal power consumption are crucial for integrated optical devices in real-world technology. Current active devices available in foundries, however, use volatile methods to modulate light,…

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

Graphene has shown great application opportunities in future nanoelectronic devices due to its outstanding electronic properties. Moreover, its impressive optical properties have been attracting the interest of researchers, and, recently,…

Dynamic color modulation in the composite structure of graphene microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)- photonic crystal microcavity is investigated in this work. The designed photonic crystal microcavity has three resonant standing wave…

We describe light scattering from a graphene sheet having a modulated optical conductivity. We show that such modulation enables the excitation of surface plasmon-polaritons by an electromagnetic wave impinging at normal incidence. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-23 N. M. R. Peres , A. Ferreira , Yu. V. Bludov , M. I. Vasilevskiy

The electronic structure and optical response of electrically gated bilayer graphene are studied by first-principles approaches. We have obtained the induced band gap that is in good agreement with experiment when the applied electric field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Li Yang

In order to overcome the challenge of obtaining high modulation depth due to weak graphene-light interaction, a graphene-on-silicon nitride (SiNx) microring resonator based on graphene's gate-tunable optical conductivity is proposed and…

Graphene, the carbon monolayer and 2D allotrope of graphite, has the potential to impact technology with a wide range of applications such as optical modulators for high-speed communications. In contrast to modulation devices that rely on…

In graphene, the extremely fast charge carriers can be controlled by electron-optical elements, such as waveguides, in which the transmissivity is tuned by the wavelength. In this work, charge carriers are guided in a suspended ballistic…

In the field of nanomechanics, parametric excitations are of interest since they can greatly enhance sensing capabilities and eliminate cross-talk. However, parametric excitations often rely on externally tuned springs, which limits their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-29 Robin J. Dolleman , Samer Houri , Abhilash Chandrashekar , Farbod Alijani , Herre S. J. van der Zant , Peter G. Steeneken