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Graphene, being an ultrathin, durable, flexible, transparent material with superior conductivity and unusual optical properties, promises many novel applications in electronics, photonics and optoelectronics. For applications in…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Jukka Aumanen , Andreas Johansson , Juha Koivistoinen , Pasi Myllyperkiö , Mika Pettersson

Graphene is ideally suited for optoelectronic applications. It offers absorption at telecom wavelengths, high-frequency operation and CMOS-compatibility. We report optoelectronic mixing up to to 67GHz using a back-gated graphene field…

We report on the synthesis of the epoxy-based composites with graphene fillers and testing their electromagnetic shielding efficiency by the quasi-optic free-space method in the extremely high frequency (EHF) band (220 - 325 GHz). The…

Periodic metallic structures are known to support resonant extraordinary transmission (EOT). When covered with graphene, these structures can be employed to effectively manipulate the light. In this work, we propose an analytical circuit…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-04 Amirmasood Bagheri , Babak Rahmani , Amin Khavasi

In this study, we present an all-optical reflection modulator for 2$\mu$m communication band exploiting a nano-gear-array metasurface and a phase-change-material Ge$_2$Sb$_2$Te$_5$ (GST). The reflectance of the structure can be manipulated…

In this paper, four easy-to-fabricate graphene-based Si waveguide modulators are presented to overcome the strong polarization dependency of graphene-based modulators. The modulation features of two newly proposed structures, i.e. two…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-10 Mohamad Najafi Hajivar , Mahmood Hosseini-Farzad

Narrow gaps are formed in suspended single to few layer graphene devices using a pulsed electrical breakdown technique. The conductance of the resulting devices can be programmed by the application of voltage pulses, with a voltage of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Hang Zhang , Wenzhong Bao , Zeng Zhao , Jhao-Wun Huang , Brian Standley , Gang Liu , Fenglin Wang , Philip Kratz , Lei Jing , Marc Bockrath , Chun Ning Lau

Single-layer graphene exhibits exceptional mechanical properties attractive for optomechanics: it combines low mass density, large tensile modulus, and low bending stiffness. However, at visible wavelengths, graphene absorbs weakly and…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-10 S. Hossein Mousavi , Peter T. Rakich , Zheng Wang

Optical switches are one of the most important elements of integrated photonics. Here, we designed, fabricated and characterized several nanophotonic optical switches (NOSs) in silicon that exhibit ultra-compact footprint, along with…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-02 Apratim Majumder , Mark Mondol , Trisha L. Andrew , Rajesh Menon

The electron-phonon interaction in monolayer graphene is investigated by using density functional perturbation theory. The results indicate that the electron-phonon interaction strength is of comparable magnitude for all four in-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 K. M. Borysenko , J. T. Mullen , E. A. Barry , S. Paul , Y. G. Semenov , J. M. Zavada , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , K. W. Kim

To fully utilize graphene's remarkable optical properties for optoelectronic applications, it needs to be integrated in planar photonic systems. Here, we demonstrate integration of graphene on silicon photonic circuits and precise…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-05 Huan Li , Yoska Anugrah , Steven J. Koester , Mo Li

Microring optical modulators are being explored extensively for energy-efficient photonic communication networks in future high-performance computing systems and microprocessors, because they can significantly reduce the power consumption…

Photonic crystal slabs have been widely used in nanophotonics for light confinement, dispersion engineering, nonlinearity enhancement, and other unusual effects arising from their structural periodicity. Sub-micron device sizes and mode…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-08 Ian A. D. Williamson , S. Hossein Mousavi , Zheng Wang

We study plasmonic resonances in electrostatically gated graphene nanoribbons on silicon dioxide substrates. Absorption spectra are measured in the mid-far infrared and reveal multiple peaks, with width-dependent resonant frequencies. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Isaac. J. Luxmoore , Choon How Gan , Peter Q. Liu , Federico Valmorra , Penglei Li , Jerome Faist , Geoffrey R. Nash

This work aims to design a CMOS compatible, low-electrical power consumption modulator assisted by plasmons. For compactness and reduction of the electrical power consumption, electro-absorption based on the Franz-Keldysh effect in…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-20 Nicolás Abadía

Two dimensional (2D) materials provide a unique platform to explore the full potential of magnetic proximity driven phenomena, which can be further used for applications in next generation spintronic devices. Of particular interest is to…

The modulation of the transmitted (reflected) radiation due to change of interband transitions under variation of carriers concentration by the gate voltage is studied theoretically. The calculations were performed for strongly doped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. V. Strikha , F. T. Vasko

We investigated the effect of the electron-beam irradiation on the level of the low-frequency 1/f noise in graphene devices. It was found that 1/f noise in graphene reveals an anomalous characteristic - it reduces with increasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Md. Zahid Hossain , Sergey Rumyantsev , Michael S. Shur , Alexander A. Balandin

Tuning the macroscopic dielectric response on demand holds potential for actively tunable metaphotonics and optical devices. In recent years, graphene has been extensively investigated as a tunable element in nanophotonics. Significant…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Jeremy Brouillet , Georgia T. Papadakis , Harry A. Atwater

Slow light has been widely utilized to obtain enhanced nonlinearities, enhanced spontaneous emissions, and increased phase shifts owing to its ability to promote light-matter interactions. By incorporating a graphene microheater on a…