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Fast modulation and switching of light at visible and near-infrared (vis-NIR) frequencies is of utmost importance for optical signal processing and sensing technologies. No fundamental limit appears to prevent us from designing…

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Enhancing the interaction strength between graphene and light is an important objective for those seeking to make graphene a relevant material for future optoelectronic applications. Plasmonic modes in graphene offer an additional pathway…

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In this paper, a new heterostructure based on the hybridization of graphene-LiF layers with a nonlinear material is introduced and studied. The numerical results are depicted and discussed in detail. A high value of FOM (FOM=24.5) at the…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-17 Mohammad Bagher Heydari , Ali Abdollahi , Sina Asgari

The interplay between localized magnetic moments and itinerant electrons gives rise to exotic quantum states in condensed matter systems. Two-dimensional moire superlattices offer a powerful platform for engineering heavy fermion states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Le Zhang , Wenqiang Zhou , Xinjie Fang , Zhen Zhan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Yi-feng Yang , Shuigang Xu

Tuning interactions between Dirac states in graphene has attracted enormous interest because it can modify the electronic spectrum of the two-dimensional material, enhance electron correlations, and give rise to novel condensed-matter…

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…

We report the interesting possibilities related to the plasmonics and the key parameters of optoelectronics, such as the absorbance and the transmittance, in Van der Waals heterostructures of graphene monolayer on 2D transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-18 Partha Goswami

Owing to its two dimensional electronic structure, graphene exhibits many unique properties. One of them is a wave vector and temperature dependent plasmon in the infrared range. Theory predicts that due to these plasmons, graphene can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 P. J. van Zwol , S. Thiele , C. Berger , W. A. de Heer , J. Chevrier

In this letter, we report a method to control reflection phase of microwaves using electrically tunable graphene devices. The device consists of mutually gated large-area graphene layers placed at a quarter-wave distance from a metallic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Osman Balci , Nurbek Kakenov , Coskun Kocabas

We present in this contribution a theoretical investigation of the spontaneous emission and energy transfer rates between quantum systems placed above a monolayer of conducting graphene. The conditions for strong and weak coupling between a…

Optical metasurfaces have developed as a breakthrough concept for advanced wave-front engineering enabled by subwavelength resonant nanostructures. However, reflection and/or absorption losses as well as low polarisation-conversion…

Electro-optic (E/O) modulators are crucial for optical communication but face a trade-off between modulation bandwidth and efficiency. A small footprint could reduce the capacitance and increase the bandwidth, however, this usually results…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-10 Chao Luan , Deming Kong , Yong Liu , Yunhong Ding , Hao Hu

A portion of the electromagnetic wave spectrum between $\sim 0.1$ and $\sim 10$ terahertz (THz) suffers from the lack of powerful, effective, easy-to-use and inexpensive emitters, detectors and mixers. We propose a multilayer graphene --…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. A. Mikhailov

The unconventional properties of graphene, with a massless Dirac band dispersion and large coherence properties, have raised a large interest for applications in nanoelectronics. In this work, we emphasize that graphene two dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-27 Pierre Darancet , Valerio Olevano , Didier Mayou

Localized plasmons in metallic nanostructures have been widely used to enhance nonlinear optical effects due to their ability to concentrate and enhance light down to extreme-subwavelength scales. As alternatives to noble metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Joel D. Cox , F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

We report on heat conduction properties of thermal interface materials with self-aligning "magnetic grapheme" fillers. Graphene enhanced nano-composites were synthesized by an inexpensive and scalable technique based on liquid-phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-16 J. Renteria , S. Legedza , R. Salgado , M. P. Balandin , S. Ramirez , M. Saadah , F. Kargar , A. A. Balandin

Advances in graphene plasmonics offer numerous opportunities for enabling the design and manufacture of a variety of nanoelectronics and other exciting optical devices. However, due to the limitation of material properties, its operating…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 Li-Zheng Yin , Tie-Jun Huang , Di Wang , Pu-Kun Liu

We demonstrate that the broadband nonlinear optical response of graphene can be resonantly enhanced by more than an order of magnitude through hybridization with a plasmonic metamaterial,while retaining an ultrafast nonlinear response time…

We employ tip-enhanced infrared near-field microscopy to study the plasmonic properties of epitaxial quasi-free-standing monolayer graphene on silicon carbide. The near-field images reveal propagating graphene plasmons, as well as a strong…

Graphene nanostructures that support surface plasmons have been utilized to create a variety of dynamically tunable light modulators, motivated by theoretical predictions of the potential for unity absorption in resonantly-excited monolayer…