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In the long-wavelength approximation, the effective conductivity tensor is introduced for graphene ribbons (strips) placed periodically at the interface between two media. The resulting conducting surface is considered as a coating for…

With the unique possibilities for controlling light in nanoscale devices, graphene plasmonics has opened new perspectives to the nanophotonics community with potential applications in metamaterials, modulators, photodetectors, and sensors.…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-07 Sanshui Xiao , Xiaolong Zhu , Bo-Hong Li , N. Asger Mortensen

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the spectrum of graphene plasmons which arise when a pair of sheets are confined between conducting materials. The associated enhanced local fields may be employed in the manipulation of light on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Godfrey Gumbs , Dipendra Dahal , Antonios Balassis

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

Spatial separation of electrons and holes in graphene gives rise to existence of plasmon waves confined to the boundary region. Theory of such guided plasmon modes within hydrodynamics of electron-hole liquid is developed. For plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-19 E. G. Mishchenko , A. V. Shytov , P. G. Silvestrov

The paper deals with the theoretical consideration of surface plasmon-polaritons in the graphene monolayer, embedded into dielectric with spatially separated gain and losses. It is demonstrated, that presence of gain and losses in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 O. A. Zhernovnykova , O. V. Popova , G. V. Deynychenko , T. I. Deynichenko , Yuliy V. Bludov

Graphene is a unique material to study fundamental limits of plasmonics. Apart from the ultimate single-layer thickness, its carrier concentration can be tuned by chemical doping or applying an electric field. In this manner the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 Dmitry A. Kuzmin , Igor V. Bychkov , Vladimir G. Shavrov , Vasily V. Temnov

We study nonlinear properties of multilayer metamaterials created by graphene sheets separated by dielectric layers. We demonstrate that such structures can support localized nonlinear modes described by the discrete nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-16 Yuliy V. Bludov , Daria A. Smirnova , Yuri S. Kivshar , Nuno M. R. Peres , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy

This work studies the optical binding of a dimer composed by dielectric particles close to a graphene sheet. Using a rigorous electromagnetic method, we calculated the optical force acting on each nanoparticle. In addition, we deduced…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-26 Hernán Ferrari , Carlos J. Zapata Rodríguez , Mauro Cuevas

Localized surface plasmons are charge density oscillations confined to metallic nanoparticles. Excitation of localized surface plasmons by an electromagnetic field at an incident wavelength where resonance occurs results in a strong light…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Habib Ammari , Pierre Millien , Matias Ruiz , Hai Zhang

A graphene sheet biased with a drift electric current offers a tantalizing opportunity to attain unidirectional, backscattering-immune, and subwavelength light propagation, as proposed in [T. A. Morgado, M. G. Silveirinha, ACS Photonics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Tiago A. Morgado , Mário G. Silveirinha

A self-consistent theory involving Maxwell equations and a density-matrix linear-response theory is solved for an electromagnetically-coupled doped graphene micro-ribbon array and a quantum-well electron gas sitting at an interface between…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Oleksiy Roslyak

Nonlocal electromagnetic effects of graphene arise from its naturally dispersive dielectric response. We present semi-analytical solutions of nonlocal Maxwell's equations for graphene nano-ribbons array with features around 100 nm, where we…

We introduce a method for calculating the dielectric function of nanostructures with an arbitrary band dispersion and Bloch wave functions. The linear response of a dissipative electronic system to an external electromagnetic field is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 F. Karimi , A. H. Davoody , I. Knezevic

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 provide an analytical solution to the problem of scattering of electromagnetic radiation by a square-wave grating with a flat graphene sheet on top. We show that for deep groves there is a strong plasmonic response with light absorption…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-04 N. M. R. Peres , Yuliy V. Bludov , A. Ferreira , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy

We report the suppression of loss of surface plasmon polariton propagating at the interface between silver film and optically pumped polymer with dye. Large magnitude of the effect enables a variety of applications of "active"…

We formulate and validate a finite element approach to the propagation of a slowly decaying electromagnetic wave, called surface plasmon-polariton, excited along a conducting sheet, e.g., a single-layer graphene sheet, by an electric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-01 Matthias Maier , Dionisios Margetis , Mitchell Luskin

We investigate through analytic calculations the surface plasmon dispersion relation for monolayer graphene sheets and a separated parallel pair of graphene monolayers. An approximate form for the dispersion relation for the monolayer case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-21 Choon How Gan , Hong Son Chu , Er Ping Li

Excitation of surface plasmon waves in extrinsic graphene is studied using a full-wave electromagnetic field solver as analysis engine. Particular emphasis is placed on the role played by spatial dispersion due to the finite size of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Davide Mencarelli , Stefano Bellucci , Antonello Sindona , Luca Pierantoni