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Graphene photonics has emerged as a promising platform for providing desirable optical functionality. However, graphene's monolayer-scale thickness fundamentally restricts the available light matter interaction, posing a critical design…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-11 PoHan Chang , Charles Lin , Amr S. Helmy

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

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

Graphene, a two-dimensional material with a high mobility and a tunable conductivity, is uniquely suited for plasmonics. The frequency dispersion of plasmons in bulk graphene has been studied both theoretically and experimentally, whereas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jared H. Strait , Parinita S. Nene , Wei-Min Chan , Christina Manolatou , Joshua W. Kevek , Sandip Tiwari , Paul L. McEuen , Farhan Rana

Transistor structures comprising graphene and sub-wavelength metal gratings hold a great promise for plasmon-enhanced terahertz detection. Despite considerable theoretical effort, little experimental evidence for terahertz plasmons in such…

Plasmons produce large confinement and enhancement of light that enable applications as varied as cancer therapy and catalysis. Adding to these appealing properties, graphene has emerged as a robust, electrically tunable material exhibiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-20 Alejandro Manjavacas , Sukosin Thongrattanasiri , F. Javier Garcia de Abajo

A graphene sheet gated with a ridged ground plane, creating a soft-boundary (SB) graphene nanoribbon, is considered. By adjusting the ridge parameters and bias voltage a channel can be created on the graphene which can guide TM surface…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-25 Ebrahim Forati , George W. Hanson

We introduce the concept of nonlinear graphene metasurfaces employing the controllable interaction between a graphene layer and a planar metamaterial. Such hybrid metasurfaces support two types of subradiant resonant modes, asymmetric modes…

The linear electronic dispersion relation of graphene endows the atomically thin carbon layer with a large intrinsic optical nonlinearity, with regard to both parametric and photothermal processes. While plasmons in graphene nanostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Line Jelver , Joel D. Cox

Placing graphene on uniaxial substrates may have interesting application potential for graphene-based photonic and optoelectronic devices. Here we analytically derive the dispersion relation for graphene plasmons on uniaxial substrates and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 I. Arrazola , R. Hillenbrand , A. Yu. Nikitin

Isolated, atomically thin conducting membranes of graphite, called graphene, have recently been the subject of intense research with the hope that practical applications in fields ranging from electronics to energy science will emerge.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 S. Garaj , W. Hubbard , A. Reina , J. Kong , D. Branton , J. A. Golovchenko

Control over the spontaneous emission of light through tailored optical environments remains a fundamental paradigm in nanophotonics. The use of highly-confined plasmons in materials such as graphene provides a promising platform to enhance…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-14 Jamison Sloan , Nicholas Rivera , Marin Soljačić , Ido Kaminer

The different forms of propagation of relativistic electron plasma wavepackets in terms of Airy functions are studied. It is shown that exact solutions can be constructed showing accelerated propagations along coordinates transverse to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Maricarmen A. Winkler , Camilo Vásquez-Wilson , Felipe A. Asenjo

Nanoscale photothermal sources find important applications in theranostics, imaging, and catalysis. In this context, graphene offers a unique suite of optical, electrical, and thermal properties, which we exploit to show self-consistent…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-08 Renwen Yu , Qiushi Guo , Fengnian Xia , F. Javier García de Abajo

Here we study subwavelength gratings for coupling into graphene plasmons by means of an an- alytical model based on transformation optics that is not limited to very shallow gratings. We consider gratings that consist of a periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Paloma A. Huidobro , Matthias Kraft , Ren Kun , Stefan A. Maier , John B. Pendry

Two-dimensional graphene plasmon-based technologies will enable the development of fast, compact and inexpensive active photonic elements because, unlike plasmons in other materials, graphene plasmons can be tuned via the doping level. Such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-20 S. Chakraborty , O. P. Marshall , T. G. Folland , Y. -J. Kim , A. N. Grigorenko , K. S. Novoselov

Graphene plasmons are of remarkable features that make graphene plasmon elements promising for applications to integrated photonic devices. The fabrication of graphene plasmon components and control over plasmon propagating are of…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-15 Weiwei Luo , Wei Cai , Wei Wu , Yinxiao Xiang , Mengxin Ren , Xinzheng Zhang , Jingjun Xu

Graphene supports surface plasmon polaritons with comparatively slow propagation velocities in the THz region, which becomes increasingly interesting for future communication technologies. This ability can be used to realize compact…

We predict the coexistence of both TE- and TM-polarized localized electromagnetic waves that can propagate \emph{in the same frequency range} along a graphene layer inserted in a photonic crystal. In addition, we studied the excitation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-14 Yu. O. Averkov , V. M. Yakovenko , V. A. Yampol'skii , Franco Nori

This paper presents an analytical study of TM-polarized surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in nonlinear multi-layer structures containing graphene sheets. In the general structure, each graphene sheet has been sandwiched between two…