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Interactions between localized plasmons in proximal nanostructures is a well-studied phenomenon. Here we explore plasmon plasmon interactions in connected extended systems. Such systems can now be easily produced using graphene.…

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Graphene plasmonics is of great interest for compact optical devices working in broad frequency domains with ultrahigh speed and very low energy consumption. However, graphene plasmons damp out quickly on most substrates mainly due to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-30 Xiaoxia Yang , Feng Zhai , Hai Hu , Mengtao Sun , Zhipei Sun , Jianing Chen , Qing Dai

Dirac plasmons in graphene are very sensitive to the dielectric properties of the environment. We show that this can be used to probe the structure and composition of van der Waals heterostructures (vdWh) put underneath a single graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-08 I. R. Lavor , L. S. R. Cavalcante , Andrey Chaves , F. M. Peeters , B. Van Duppen

We performed density functional theory (DFT) calculations for a bi-layered heterostructure combining a graphene layer with a MoS2 layer with and without intercalated Li atoms. Our calculations demonstrate the importance of the van der Waals…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-27 Towfiq Ahmed , N. A. Modine , Jian-Xin Zhu

In recent years, we have seen a rapid progress in the field of graphene plasmonics, motivated by graphene's unique electrical and optical properties, tunabilty, long-lived collective excitation and their extreme light confinement. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-13 Tony Low , Phaedon Avouris

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in condensed-matter systems is both a source of fundamental insight into quantum electron motion and a promising candidate to realize compact ultraviolet and ultrafast light sources. Here we argue that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Joel D. Cox , Andrea Marini , F. Javier García de Abajo

We propose a tubal van der Waals heterostructure by rolling up the graphene and MoS2 atomic layers into a tubal form. We illustrate that the interlayer space for the tubal van der Waals heterostructure can be varied in a specific range,…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-01 Ya-Wen Tan , Jin-Wu Jiang

Charge carriers in the quantum Hall regime propagate via one-dimensional conducting channels that form along the edges of a two-dimensional electron gas. Controlling their transmission through a gate-tunable constriction, also called…

Graphene, a unique two-dimensional material of carbon in a honeycomb lattice, has brought remarkable breakthroughs across the domains of electronics, mechanics, and thermal transport, driven by the quasiparticle Dirac fermions obeying a…

Graphene is a novel two-dimensional material with fascinating electrodynamic properties like the ability to support collective electron oscillations (plasmons) accompanied by tight confinement of electromagnetic fields. Our goal is to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-15 Marinko Jablan

We use a van-der-Waals pickup technique to fabricate different heterostructures containing WSe$_2$(WS$_2$) and graphene. The heterostructures were structured by plasma etching, contacted by one-dimensional edge contacts and a topgate was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Tobias Völkl , Tobias Rockinger , Martin Drienovsky , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Dieter Weiss , Jonathan Eroms

We have studied two interchange layer systems, (i) free standing partly hydrogenated graphene (graphone), and (ii) graphone on the Nickel (111) surface, to assess various density functional theory based computational schemes incorporating…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-26 Magdalena Birowska , Maciej Marchwiany , Claudia Draxl , Jacek. A. Majewski

Graphene/(Poly)vinyl alcohol (PVA) composite film with thickness $60 \mu m$ were synthesized by solidification of a PVA solution comprising of dispersed graphene nanosheets. The close proximity of the graphene sheets enables the fluctuation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Sreemanta Mitra , Sourish Banerjee , Dipankar Chakravorty

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures, which combine bi-dimensional materials of different properties, enable a range of quantum phenomena. Here, we present a comparative study between the electronic properties of mono- and bi-layer of…

It is shown that the massless energy spectrum of electrons and holes in graphene leads to the strongly non-linear electromagnetic response of this system. We predict that the graphene layer, irradiated by electromagnetic waves, emits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-24 S. A. Mikhailov

We analyze nonlinear optics schemes for generating pairs of quantum entangled plasmons in the terahertz-infrared range in graphene. We predict that high plasmonic field concentration and strong optical nonlinearity of monolayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Zhiyuan Sun , D. N. Basov , M. M. Fogler

The vertical integration of multiple two-dimensional (2D) materials in heterostructures, held together by van der Waals forces, has opened unprecedented possibilities for modifying the (opto-)electronic properties of nanodevices. Graphene,…

High level of dissipation in normal metals makes challenging development of active and passive plasmonic devices. One possible solution to this problem is to use alternative materials. Graphene is a good candidate for plasmonics in near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Yu. E. Lozovik , I. A. Nechepurenko , A. V. Dorofeenko , E. S. Andrianov , N. M. Chtchelkatchev , A. A Pukhov

We study surface waves localized near a surface of a semi-infinite dielectric medium covered by a layer of graphene in the presence of a strong external magnetic field. We demonstrate that both TE-TM hybrid surface plasmons can propagate…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ivan Iorsh , Ilya Shadrivov , Pavel Belov , Yuri Kivshar

By taking into account the full four band energy spectrum, we calculate the transmission probability and conductance of electrons across symmetric and asymmetric double potential barrier with a confined interlayer potential difference in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-22 Hasan A. Alshehab , Hocine Bahlouli , Abderrahim El Mouhafid , Ahmed Jellal