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We propose a class of waveguides operating near cutoff such that electromagnetic energy is mainly bound to the cladding rather than the dielectric core to achieve subdiffraction confinement of light. The cladding incorporates an alternating…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-04 C. H. Gan

Designing high-finesse resonant cavities for electronic waves faces challenges due to short electron coherence lengths in solids. Previous approaches, e.g. the seminal nanometer-sized quantum corrals, depend on careful positioning of…

The guiding and transport of energy, for example of electromagnetic waves underpins many technologies that have shaped modern society, ranging from long distance optical fibre telecommunications to on-chip optical processors. Traditionally,…

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

Within the tight binding approximation, we study the dependence of the electronic band structure and of the optical conductivity of a graphene single layer on the modulus and direction of applied uniaxial strain. While the Dirac cone…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-15 F. M. D. Pellegrino , G. G. N. Angilella , R. Pucci

This paper considers the propagation of TE-modes in photonic crystal waveguides. The waveguide is created by introducing a linear defect into a periodic background medium. Both the periodic background problem and the perturbed problem are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-04 Malcolm Brown , Vu Hoang , Michael Plum , Maria Radosz , Ian Wood

Based on a tight-binding approximation, we present analytical solutions for the wavefunction and propagation velocity of an electron in armchair graphene ribbons. The derived expressions are used for computing the transmission coefficients…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Yuriy Klymenko , Oleksii Shevtsov

We study the the transport properties of multiterminal ballistic graphene samples, concentrating on the conductance matrix, fluctuations and cross-correlations. Far away from Dirac point, the current is carried mostly by propagating modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-03 M. A. Laakso , T. T. Heikkilä

Recent investigations address transport through ballistic charge-neutral graphene strips coupled to doped graphitic leads. This paper shows that identical transport properties arise when the leads are replaced by quantum wires. This duality…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-01 Henning Schomerus

Graphene two-dimensional nature combined with today lithography allows to achieve nanoelectronics devices smaller than the Dirac electrons wavelength. Here we show that in these graphene subwavelength nanodevices the electronic quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-08 Pierre Darancet , Valerio Olevano , Didier Mayou

Graphene as a one-atom-thick platform for infrared metamaterial plays an important role in optical science and engineering. Here we study the unique properties of some plasmonic waveguides based on graphene nano-ribbon. It is found that a…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-29 S. He , X. Zhang , Y. He

Photon-assisted electron transport in ballistic graphene is analyzed using scattering theory. We show that the presence of an ac signal (applied to a gate electrode in a region of the system) has interesting consequences on electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Trauzettel , Ya. M. Blanter , A. F. Morpurgo

Graphene is a 2-dimensional (2D) carbon allotrope with the atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice. The low-energy electronic excitations in this 2D crystal are described by massless Dirac fermions that have a linear dispersion relation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 Peter Rickhaus , Romain Maurand , Ming-Hao Liu , Markus Weiss , Klaus Richter , Christian Schönenberger

Electronic matter waves traveling through the weak and smoothly varying disorder potential of a semi-conductor show branching behavior instead of a smooth spreading of flow. By transferring this phenomenon to optics, we show how the…

We present waveguides with photonic crystal cores, supporting energy propagation in subwavelength regions with a mode structure similar to that in telecom fibers. We design meta-materials for near-, mid-, and far-IR frequencies, and…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander A. Govyadinov , Viktor A. Podolskiy

A theoretical study of photonic bands for one-dimensional (1D) lattices embedded in planar waveguides with strong refractive index contrast is presented. The approach relies on expanding the electromagnetic field on the basis of guided…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Gerace , L. C. Andreani

We propose a scheme to trap and filter electrons, valley dependently, on a scale beyond the diffraction limit, in a gapped Dirac system using a circularly polarized light beam and a microscale metallic resonator. The main mechanism allowing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Kevin Dini , Ivan V. Iorsh , Andrey Bogdanov , Ivan A. Shelykh

The paper addresses the issue of existence and confinement of electromagnetic modes guided by linear defects in photonic crystals. Sufficient condition are provided for existence of such waves near a given spectral location. Confinement to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-26 Peter Kuchment , Beng-Seong Ong

Guided wireless technology is an innovative approach that combines the strengths of guided waves and wireless communication. In traditional wireless systems, signals propagate through the air, where they are vulnerable to interference,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Mohamed Akrout , Amine Mezghani , Faouzi Bellili , Robert W. Heath

A theory of electron states for graphene nanoribbons with a smoothly varying width is developed. It is demonstrated that the standard adiabatic approximation allowing to neglect the mixing of different standing waves is more restrictive for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 M. I. Katsnelson