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Scientists are always yearning for new and exciting ways to unlock graphene's true potential. However, recent reports suggest this two-dimensional material may harbor some unique properties, making it a viable candidate for use in…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-04 F. V. Kusmartsev , W. M. Wu , M. P. Pierpoint , K. C. Yung

Graphene has shown great potentials for high-speed photodetection. Yet, the responsivities of graphene-based high-speed photodetectors are commonly limited by the weak effective absorption of atomically thin graphene. Here, we propose and…

Since the discovery of graphene, its excellent physical properties has greatly improved the performance of many optoelectronic devices and brought important technological revolution to optical research and application. Here, we introduce…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-07 Xianyou Wang , Yunqi Yuan , Xi Xie , Yuquan zhang , Changjun Min , Xiaocong Yuan

Two-dimensional graphene plasmon-based technologies will enable the development of fast, compact and inexpensive active photonic elements because, unlike plasmons in other materials, graphene plasmons can be tuned via the doping level. Such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-20 S. Chakraborty , O. P. Marshall , T. G. Folland , Y. -J. Kim , A. N. Grigorenko , K. S. Novoselov

Graphene has two very important optical properties of population inversion of electrons, and broadband optical gain. As a result, graphene has potential for use in lasers and amplifiers. In this work, we presented a quantum master model and…

Optics · Physics 2013-02-21 Guangcun Shan , Chan-Hung Shek

Graphene is a very attractive material for broadband photodetection in hyperspectral imaging and sensing systems. However, its potential use has been hindered by tradeoffs between the responsivity, bandwidth, and operation speed of existing…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Semih Cakmakyapan , Ping Keng Lu , Aryan Navabi , Mona Jarrahi

Graphene has been recognized as an attractive two-dimensional material for fundamental research and wide applications in electronic and photonic devices owing to its unique properties. The technologies to modulate the properties of graphene…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-26 Yang Tan , Zhen Shang , Shavkat Akhmadaliev , Shengqiang Zhou , Feng Chen

We present a theoretical framework for nonlinear optics of graphene and other 2D materials in layered structures. We derive a key equation to find the effective electric field and the sheet current density in the 2D material for given…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-27 J. L. Cheng , J. E. Sipe , N. Vermeulen , C. Guo

Graphene plasmons are rapidly emerging as a viable tool for fast electrical manipulation of light. The prospects for applications to electro-optical modulation, optical sensing, quantum plasmonics, light harvesting, spectral photometry, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-20 F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

We develop a microscopic theory of a strong electromagnetic field interaction with gated bilayer graphene. Quantum kinetic equations for density matrix are obtained using a tight binding approach within second quantized Hamiltonian in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 A. A. Avetisyan , A. P. Djotyan , K. Moulopoulos

Graphene is a rising star in nonlinear optics due to its saturable absorption and giant Kerr nonlinearity, these properties are useful in digital optics based on optical nonlinear devices. However, practical applications require large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Qiaoliang Bao , Jianqiang Chen , Yuanjiang Xiang , Kai Zhang , Shaojuan Li , Xiaofang Jiang , Qing-Hua Xu , Kian Ping Loh , T. Venkatesan

While silicon has dominated solid-state electronics for more than four decades, a variety of new materials have been introduced into photonics to expand the accessible wavelength range and to improve the performance of photonic devices. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-24 Thomas Mueller , Fengnian Xia , Phaedon Avouris

Graphene has been one of the most investigated materials in the last decade. Its unique optoelectronic properties have indeed raised it to an ideal and revolutionary candidate for the development of entirely novel technologies across the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Miriam S. Vitiello , Leonardo Viti

A novel type of photonic crystal formed by embedding a periodic array of constituent stacks of alternating graphene and dielectric discs into a background dielectric medium is proposed. The photonic band structure and transmittance of such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-21 Oleg L. Berman , Vladimir S. Boyko , Roman Ya. Kezerashvili , Anton A. Kolesnikov , Yurii E. Lozovik

Graphene is an ideal 2D material system bridging electronic and photonic devices. It also breaks the fundamental speed and size limits by electronics and photonics, respectively. Graphene offers multiple functions of signal transmission,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 Rong Wang , Xingang Ren , Ze Yan , Lijun Jiang , Wei E. I. Sha , Guangcun Shan

Graphene is only one atom thick, optically transparent, chemically inert and an excellent conductor. These properties seem to make this material an excellent candidate for applications in various photonic devices that require conducting but…

Plasmonics can be used to improve absorption in optoelectronic devices and has been intensively studied for solar cells and photodetectors. Graphene has recently emerged as a powerful plasmonic material. It shows significantly less losses…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jianfa Zhang , Zhihong Zhu , Wei Liu , Xiaodong Yuan , Shiqiao Qin

Electronic and photonic devices based on the two-dimensional material graphene have unique properties, leading to outstanding performance figures-of-merit. Mastering the integration of this new and unconventional material into an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Daniel Neumaier , Stephan Pindl , Max C. Lemme

Under strong laser illumination, few-layer graphene exhibits both a transmittance increase due to saturable absorption and a nonlinear phase shift. Here, we unambiguously distinguish these two nonlinear optical effects and identify both…

Graphene is an ideal material to study fundamental Coulomb- and phonon-induced carrier scattering processes. Its remarkable gapless and linear band structure opens up new carrier relaxation channels. In particular, Auger scattering bridging…