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In this letter we exploit the extended coherence length of mixed plasmon/exciton states to generate active metasurfaces. For this purpose, periodic stripes of organic dye are deposited on a continuous silver film. Typical metasurface…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-08 K. Chevrier , J. M. Benoit , C. Symonds , S. K. Saikin , J. Yuen-Zhou , J. Bellessa

Black phosphorus is a layered semiconductor that is intensely researched in view of applications in optoelectronics. In this Letter, we investigate a multi-layer black phosphorus photo-detector that is capable of acquiring high-contrast…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-12 Michael Engel , Mathias Steiner , Phaedon Avouris

We study the anomalous electromagnetic scattering in the homogenization regime, by a subwavelength thin layer of periodically distributed plasmonic nanoparticles on a perfect conducting plane. By using layer potential techniques, we derive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Habib Ammari , Bowen Li , Jun Zou

We present a non-linear Thomas-Fermi theory which describes the electric charge screening in the system including two charged substrate layers separated by a few-layered graphene film. We show that by increasing the charge at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-05 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

Inelastic neutron scattering data from a twinned single-crystal of YBa2Cu3O6.95 are presented that show a distinct a-b plane anisotropy in the oxygen vibrations. The Cu-O bond-stretching type phonons are simultaneously observed along the a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. McQueeney , T. Egami , J. -H. Chung , Y. Petrov , M. Yethiraj , M. Arai , Y. Inamura , Y. Endoh , C. Frost , F. Dogan

We studied the electronic structure and optic absorption of phosphorene (monolayer of black phosphorus) under strain. Strain was found to be a powerful tool for the band structure engineering. The in-plane strain in armchair or zigzag…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Houjian Duan , Mou Yang , Ruiqiang Wang

We calculate the screening of the ion-ion potential due to electrons in the presence of a large background magnetic field, at densities of relevance to neutron star crusts. Using the standard approach to incorporate electron screening…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-14 Rishi Sharma , Sanjay Reddy

We investigate the effect of charge carrier interaction with surface optical phonons on the band properties of monolayer black phosphorus induced by polar substrates. We develop an analytical method based on the Lee-Low-Pines theory to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-12 A. Mogulkoc , Y. Mogulkoc , A. N. Rudenko , M. I. Katsnelson

Surface plasmons on metals can concentrate light into sub-nanometric volumes and on these near atomic length scales the electronic response at the metal interface is smeared out over a Thomas-Fermi screening length. This nonlocality is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yu Luo , A. I. Fernandez-Dominguez , Aeneas Wiener , S. A. Maier , J. B. Pendry

The objective of this work is to study the effects of charge redistribution, applied layer-normal electric fields, applied strain, and layer engineering on the band alignment of Black Phosphorus (BP)/Molybdenum disulphide (MoS2)…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-28 Nupur Navlakha , Priyamvada Jadaun , Leonard F. Register , Sanjay K. Banerjee

Ballistic device performance of monolayer black phosphorous (BP) field-effect transistors (FET) is investigated in this work. Due to the anisotropic effect mass of the carriers, the ON-state current is dependent on the transport direction.…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-07-14 Kai-Tak Lam , Zhipeng Dong , Jing Guo

Unexpected transport behavior can arise due to anisotropic single-particle scattering in multiband systems. Specifically, we show within a semiclassical Boltzmann approach beyond the relaxation-time approximation that anisotropic scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 Maxim Breitkreiz , P. M. R. Brydon , Carsten Timm

Although monolayer black phosphorus (BP) or phosphorene has been successfully exfoliated and its optical properties have been explored, most of electrical performance of the devices is demonstrated on few-layer phosphorene and ultra-thin BP…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-05 Yuchen Du , Han Liu , Yexin Deng , Peide D. Ye

Black phosphorus exhibits a layered structure similar to graphene, allowing mechanical exfoliation of ultrathin single crystals. Here we demonstrate few-layer black phosphorus field effect devices on Si/SiO$_2$ and measure charge carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Steven P. Koenig , Rostislav A. Doganov , Hennrik Schmidt , A. H. Castro Neto , Barbaros Oezyilmaz

Based on the quantum electrodynamics, we present a generic formalism of the polarization for beamed monochromatic photons scattered by electrons in any spectral distribution. The formulae reduce to the components of the Fano matrix when…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-07 Zhe Chang , Yunguo Jiang , Hai-Nan Lin

Atomically thin black phosphorus (BP) is a promising two-dimensional material for fabricating electronic and optoelectronic nano-devices with high mobility and tunable bandgap structures. However, the charge-carrier mobility in few-layer…

Surface plasmon scattering by 1D indentations and protrusions is examined, mainly in the optical regime. The width of the defects is fixed, while its height is varied. Both individual and arrays of defects are considered. Protrusions mainly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-22 Giovanni Brucoli , Luis Martín Moreno

Phosphorene has been rediscovered recently, establishing itself as one of the most promising two dimensional group-V elemental monolayers with direct band gap, high carrier mobility, and anisotropic electronic properties. In this letter,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-24 Gaoxue Wang , G. C. Loh , Ravindra Pandey , Shashi P. Karna

$8-Pmmn$ borophene is a polymorph of borophene which hosts an anisotropic tilted Dirac cone. Using a low energy effective Hamiltonian for borophene, we analytically calculate the density-density response function of borophene and study its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Krishanu Sadhukan , Amit Agarwal

We present polarization-resolved transient transmission measurements on multi-layer black phosphorus. Background free two-color pump-probe spectroscopy measurements are carried out on mechanically exfoliated black phosphorus flakes that…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-25 Ryan J. Suess , Mohammad M. Jadidi , Thomas E. Murphy , Martin Mittendorff