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Dynamic manipulation of the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) and wave steering are important in plasmonic applications. In this work, we excite a curved SPP in topological continua by applying a radial magnetic bias. We believe that it is a…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-30 Samaneh Pakniyat , Alexander H Holmes , George W Hanson

Numerical and closed-form analytic expressions for plasmon dispersion relations and rates of dissipation are first obtained at finite-temperatures for free-standing gapped graphene. These closed-system results are generalized to an open…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Andrii Iurov , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , V. M. Silkin

Plasmonic metasurfaces represent a promising platform for enhancing light-matter interaction. Active control of the optical response of metasurfaces is desirable for applications such as beam-steering, modulators and switches, biochemical…

Controlling the directionality of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) has been widely studied, while the direction of SPPs was always switched by orthogonal polarizations in the reported methods. Here, we present a scheme to control the…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-30 Hailong Zhou , Jinran Qie , Jianji Dong , Xinliang Zhang

We propose a plasmonic device consisting of a concentric ring grating acting as an efficient tool for directional launching and detection of surface plasmon-polaritons (SPPs). Numerical simulations and optical characterizations are used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 N. Rahbany , W. Geng , R. Salas-Montiel , S. de la Cruz , E. R. Méndez , S. Blaize , R. Bachelot , C. Couteau

Graphene's optical properties in the infrared and terahertz can be tailored and enhanced by patterning graphene into periodic metamaterials with sub-wavelength feature sizes. Here we demonstrate polarization sensitive and gate tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 Marcus Freitag , Tony Low , Wenjuan Zhu , Hugen Yan , Fengnian Xia , Phaedon Avouris

It is shown that an attenuated total reflection structure containing a graphene layer can operate as a tunable polarizer of the electromagnetic radiation. The polarization angle is controlled by adjusting the voltage applied to graphene via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-31 Yuliy V. Bludov , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy , Nuno M. R. Peres

We theoretically study a doped graphene ribbon suspended over a trench and subject to an ac-electrical field polarized perpendicularly to the graphene plane. In such a system, the external ac-field is coupled to the relatively slow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Axel M. Eriksson , Leonid Y. Gorelik

We consider a graphene sheet encapsulated in a two-dimensional metallic grating and a substrate ($\mathrm{Al_{2}O_{3}}$) and subjected to an external magnetic field (in Faraday configuration). The grating consists of a thin perfectly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yu. V. Bludov , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres

We consider a hybrid structure formed by graphene and an insulating antiferromagnet, separated by a dielectric of thickness up to $d\simeq 500 \,nm$. When uncoupled, both graphene and the antiferromagnetic surface host their own polariton…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-28 Y. V. Bludov , J. N. Gomes , G. A. Farias , J. Fernández-Rossier , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres

We present a magnetically biased graphene-ferrite structure discriminating the TE and TM plasmonic modes of graphene. In this structure, the graphene TM plasmons interact reciprocally with the structure. In contrast, the graphene TE…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Nima Chamanara , Christophe Caloz

It has recently been demonstrated that difference frequency mixing (DFM) can generate surface plasmons in graphene [1]. Here, we present detailed calculations comparing the contributions to this effect from substrate and from graphene…

In this paper we study the excitation spectrum of single- and multi-layer graphene beyond the Dirac cone approximation. The dynamical polarizability of graphene is computed using a full $\pi$-band tight-binding model, considering the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-29 Shengjun Yuan , Rafael Roldán , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

Surface plasmon (SP) excitation in intense laser interaction with solid target can be exploited for enhancing secondary emissions, in particular efficient acceleration of high charge electron bunches. Previous studies have mostly used…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 J. Sarma , A. McIlvenny , N. Das , M. Borghesi , A. Macchi

We study the interaction of focused radially-polarized light with metal nanospheres. By expanding the electromagnetic field in terms of multipoles, we gain insight on the excitation of localized surface plasmon-polariton resonances in the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nassiredin M. Mojarad , Mario Agio

In recent years, we have seen a rapid progress in the field of graphene plasmonics, motivated by graphene's unique electrical and optical properties, tunabilty, long-lived collective excitation and their extreme light confinement. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-13 Tony Low , Phaedon Avouris

The propagation of a surface plasmon-polariton along a stack of doped graphene sheets is considered. This auxiliary problem is used to discuss: (i) the scattering of such a mode at an interface between the stack and the vacuum; (ii) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Yu. V. Bludov , N. M. R. Peres , G. Smirnov , M. I. Vasilevskiy

Graphene plasmons have attracted significant attention due to their tunability, potentially long propagation lengths and ultracompact wavelengths. However, the latter characteristic imposes challenges to light-plasmon coupling in practical…

Graphene is a promising candidate to succeed silicon based devices and doping holds the key to graphene electronics. Conventional doping methods through surface functionalization or lattice modification are effective in tuning carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-16 Yangbo Zhou , Jakub Jadwiszczak , Darragh Keane , Ying Chen , Dapeng Yu , Hongzhou Zhang

Spoof plasmons mimic noble metal plasmons. The equivalent of the plasma frequency is an energy scale imposed by the geometry of the metal grating upon which they propagate. In this paper we show that the dispersion of spoof plasmons in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-21 Eduardo J. C. Dias , N. M. R. Peres