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We investigate the propagation of surface waves along a spatially dispersive graphene sheet, including substrate effects. The proposed analysis derives the admittances of an equivalent circuit of graphene able to handle spatial dispersion,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-03 J. S. Gomez-Diaz , J. R. Mosig , J. Perruisseau-Carrier

We explore the unusual non-reciprocal and diffraction-less properties of surface plasmon polaritons propagating in drift-biased graphene-based metasurfaces. We show that applying a drift-current on a graphene sheet leads to extremely…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 D. Correas-Serrano , J. S. Gomez-Diaz

In this paper, we predict the existence of low-frequency nonlocal plasmon excitations at the vacuum-surface interface of a superlattice of $N$ graphene layers interacting with a thick conducting substrate. This is different from graphite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Jhao-Ying Wu , M. F. Lin , Paula Fekete

We analytically obtain the dispersion relations for transverse-electric (TE) and transverse-magnetic (TM) surface plasmon-polaritons in a nonlinear two-dimensional (2D) conducting material lying between two Kerr-type dielectric media. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Vera Andreeva , Mitchell Luskin , Dionisios Margetis

The behavior of the TE and TM electromagnetic waves in graphene at the interface between two semi-infinite dielectric media is studied. The dramatic influence on the TE waves propagation even at very small changes in the optical contrast…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 O. V. Kotov , M. A. Kol'chenko , Yu. E. Lozovik

The dispersion relation of surface plasmon polaritons in graphene that includes optical losses is often obtained for complex wave vectors while the frequencies are assumed to be real. This approach, however, is not suitable for describing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Zeeshan Ahmad , Egor A. Muljarov , Sang Soon Oh

Gapless spectrum of graphene allows easy spatial separation of electrons and holes with an external in-plane electric field. Guided collective plasmon modes can propagate along the separation line, whose amplitude decays with the distance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-23 N. M. Hassan , V. V. Mkhitaryan , E. G. Mishchenko

We study surface plasmons in minimally-twisted gapped bilayer graphene that contains a triangular network of partial dislocations (or AB-BA domain walls) hosting topologically protected one-dimensional electronic states. We show that this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Brian S. Vermilyea , Michael M. Fogler

We propose a novel method to probe electronic excitations in graphene by monitoring the fluorescence quenching of a semiconductor quantum dot (or a dye molecule) due to the resonance energy transfer to the graphene sheet. We show how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-30 Kirill A. Velizhanin , Anatoly Efimov

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…

The unique gate-voltage dependent optical properties of graphene make it a promising electrically-tunable plasmonic material. In this work, we proposed in-situ control of the polarization of nanoantennas by combining plasmonic structures…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-26 Yuwei Qin , Xiaoyan Y. Z. Xiong , Wei E. I. Sha , Li Jun Jiang

Plasmons in low-dimensional systems respresent an important tool for coupling energy into nanostructures and the localization of energy on the scale of only a few nanometers. Contrary to ordinary surface plasmons of metallic bulk materials,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 H. Pfnür , C. Tegenkamp , L. Vattuone

We have theoretically studied a graphene-based plasmonic waveguide, which can gate the transmission of a surface plasmon polariton (SPP) localized at the graphene-semiconductor interface. When a gate voltage is applied above a certain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-27 Kyungsun Moon , Suk-Young Park

We report observation of graphene plasmon interference fringes across a wide spectral range using a scattering scanning near-field optical microscope (s-SNOM) that employs a widely tunable bank of quantum cascade lasers. We use plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-28 William S. Hart , Vishal Panchal , Christos Melios , Włodek Strupiński , Olga Kazakova , Chris C. Phillips

We introduce a novel strategy for controlling the temporal evolution of a quantum system at the nanoscale. Our method relies on the use of graphene plasmons, which can be electrically tuned in frequency by external gates. Quantum emitters…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Alejandro Manjavacas , Sukosin Thongrattanasiri , Darrick E. Chang , F. Javier García de Abajo

Singular graphene metasurfaces, conductivity gratings realized by periodically suppressing the local doping level of a graphene sheet, have recently been proposed to efficiently harvest THz light and couple it to surface plasmons over broad…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 E. Galiffi , P. A. Huidobro , P. A. D. Gonçalves , N. A. Mortensen , J. B. Pendry

The interaction of light with matter has triggered the interest of scientists for long time. The area of plasmonics emerges in this context through the interaction of light with valence electrons in metals. The random phase approximation in…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-07 Marios Mattheakis , Giorgos P. Tsironis , Efthimios Kaxiras

Vertical plasmonic coupling in double-layer graphene leads to two hybridized plasmonic modes: optical and acoustic plasmons with symmetric and anti-symmetric charge distributions across the interlayer gap, respectively. However, in most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 In-Ho Lee , Tony Low , Luis Martín-Moreno , Phaedon Avouris , Sang-Hyun Oh

Graphene has shown great potentials for high-speed photodetection. Yet, the responsivities of graphene-based high-speed photodetectors are commonly limited by the weak effective absorption of atomically thin graphene. Here, we propose and…

Plasmons are likely to play an important role in integrated photonic ciruits, because they strongly interact with light and can be confined to subwavelength scales. These plasmons can be guided and controlled by plasmonic waveguides, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 T. M. Koskamp , M. I. Katsnelson , K. J. A. Reijnders