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Based on a structure consisting of a single graphene layer situated on a periodic dielectric grating, we show theoretically that intense terahertz (THz) radiations can be generated by an electron bunch moving atop the graphene layer. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 T. R. Zhan , D. Z. Han , X. H. Hu , X. H. Liu , S. T. Chui , J. Zi

In nonlinear plasmonics, the switching threshold of optical bistability is limited by the weak nonlinear responses from the conventional Kerr dielectric media. Considering the giant nonlinear susceptibility of graphene, here we develop a…

Graphene is emerging as a viable alternative to conventional optoelectronic, plasmonic, and nanophotonic materials. The interaction of light with carriers creates an out-of-equilibrium distribution, which relaxes on an ultrafast timescale…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 D. Brida , A. Tomadin , C. Manzoni , Y. J. Kim , A. Lombardo , S. Milana , R. R. Nair , K. S. Novoselov , A. C. Ferrari , G. Cerullo , M. Polini

In heterostructures consisting of atomically thin crystals layered on top of one another, lattice mismatch or rotation between the layers results in long-wavelength moir\'e superlattices. These moir\'e patterns can drive significant band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Nathan R. Finney , Matthew Yankowitz , Lithurshanaa Muraleetharan , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Cory R. Dean , James Hone

The graphene-insulator-semiconductor-structured electron source has garnered significant attention due to its high electron emission efficiency and highly monochromatic electron emission. Graphene, with its c-axis orientation and…

Intense efforts have been made in recent years to realize nonlinear optical interactions at the single-photon level. Much of this work has focused on achieving strong third-order nonlinearities, such as by using single atoms or other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Marco T. Manzoni , Iván Silveiro , F. Javier García de Abajo , Darrick E. Chang

Electron scattering in the monolayer graphene with short-range impurities modelled by the annular well with a band-asymmetric potential has been considered. Band-asymmetry of the potential resulted in the mass (gap) perturbation in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-23 Natalie E. Firsova , Sergey A. Ktitorov

The propagation of electromagnetic waves along the surface of a nonlinear dielectric covered by a graphene layer is investigated. The main result is that such a surface can support and stabilize nonlinear transverse electric (TE) plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-30 Yuliy V. Bludov , Daria A. Smirnova , Yuri S. Kivshar , Nuno M. R. Peres , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy

Subwavelength aperture arrays in thin metal films can enable enhanced transmission of light and matter (atom) waves. The phenomenon relies on resonant excitation and interference of the plasmon or matter waves on the metal surface. We show…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. V. Kukhlevsky

We address the two-dimensional band-structure of graphene above the vacuum level in the context of discrete states immersed in the three-dimensional continuum. Scattering resonances are discovered that originate from the coupling of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-31 V. U. Nazarov , V. M. Silkin , E. E. Krasovskii

This work presents a mathematical theory for electromagnetic scattering resonances in a subwavelength annular hole embedded in a metallic slab, with the annulus width $h\ll1$. The model is representative among many 3D subwavelength hole…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Junshan Lin , Wangtao Lu , Hai Zhang

Transverse-electric (TE) surface plasmon polaritons are unique eigenmodes of a homogeneous graphene layer that are tunable with the chemical potential and temperature. However, as their dispersion curve spectrally lies just below the light…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Zeeshan Ahmad , Sang Soon Oh , Egor A. Muljarov

Planar, disordered assemblies of small particles incorporated in layered media -- sometimes called ``disordered metasurfaces'' in the recent literature -- are becoming widespread in optics and photonics. Their ability to scatter light with…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-08 Kevin Vynck , Armel Pitelet , Louis Bellando , Philippe Lalanne

The ability to effectively guide electromagnetic radiation below the diffraction limit is of the utmost importance in the prospect of all-optical plasmonic circuitry. Here, we propose an alternative solution to conventional metal-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 P. A. D. Gonçalves , E. J. C. Dias , Sanshui Xiao , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. Asger Mortensen , N. M. R. Peres

Moir\'e superlattices formed from twisting trilayers of graphene are an ideal model for studying electronic correlation, and offer several advantages over bilayer analogues, including more robust and tunable superconductivity and a wide…

We consider molecules made of two one-dimensional short-range-interacting bosonic atoms. We show that in the process of scattering of these molecules off a narrow barrier, odd incident waves produce \emph{no unbound atoms, even when the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-03-27 Juan Polo Gomez , Anna Minguzzi , Maxim Olshanii

Absorption of terahertz waves by a metasurface comprising a biperiodic array of pixellated meta-atoms on top of a dielectric substrate backed by a perfect electric conductor was simulated using a commercial software, with either all or a…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-12 Pankaj Kumar , Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Pradip K. Jain

Meyer et al (2007) found that free-standing graphene sheets, just one atom thick, display spontaneous ripples. The ripples are of order 2-20 {\AA} high and 20-200 {\AA} wide. The sheets in which they appear are only one atom thick, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Rebecca C. Thompson-Flagg , Maria J. B. Moura , M. Marder

We demonstrate that the interaction between two emitters can be controlled by means of the efficient excitation of surface plasmon modes in graphene. We consider graphene surface plasmons supported by either two-dimensional graphene sheets…

We develop a theoretical framework for probing moir\'e phonon modes using Raman spectroscopy, and illustrate it with the example of twisted bilayer graphene (TBG). These moir\'e phonons arise from interlayer sliding motion in twisted 2D…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-24 Vitor Dantas , Héctor Ochoa , Rafael M. Fernandes , Natalia B. Perkins