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The collective excitation spectrum of two-dimensional (2D) antimonene is calculated beyond the low energy continuum approximation. The dynamical polarizability is computed using a 6-orbitals tight-binding model that properly accounts for…

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We obtained numerical and closed-form analytic expressions for finite-temperature plasmon dispersion relations for intrinsic graphene in the presence of a finite energy gap in the energy spectrum. The calculations were carried out using the…

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Two dimensional materials offer a path forward for smaller and more efficient devices. Their optical and electronic properties give way to beat the limits set in place by Moore's Law. Plasmon are the collective oscillations of electrons and…

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We study the collective charge-density modes (plasmons) of two-dimensional nonsymmorphic Dirac semimetals, within the random-phase approximation (RPA) in presence of Coulomb interaction. Without loss of generality, we consider a system in a…

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Exploring low-loss two-dimensional plasmon modes is considered central for achieving light manipulation at the nanoscale and applications in plasmonic science and technology. In this context, pump-probe spectroscopy is a powerful tool for…

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Artifical superlattice (SL) potentials have been employed extensively for band structure engineering of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac electron gas in graphene. While such engineered electronic band structures can modify optical or plasmonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Minwoo Jung , Gennady Shvets

In this minireview, we explore the main features and the prospect of plasmonics with two-dimensional semiconductors. Plasmonic modes in each class of van der Waals semiconductors have their own peculiarities, along with potential…

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The plasmon excitations in proposed single- and double-component helical liquid (HL) models are investigated within the random-phase approximation, by calculating the density-density, spin-density and spin-spin waves. The effect due to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-03 O. Roslyak , Godfrey Gumbs , D. H. Huang

The Coulomb excitations of charge density oscillation are calculated for a double-layer heterostructure. Specifically, we consider two-dimensional (2D) layers of silicene and graphene on a substrate. From the obtained surface response…

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Collective modes of doped two-dimensional crystalline materials, namely graphene, MoS$_2$ and phosphorene, both monolayer and bilayer structures, are explored using the density functional theory simulations together with the random phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Zahra Torbatian , Reza Asgari

We discuss the dynamical polarization, optical response in low-frequency regime under in-plane polarized driving field of the silicene. The dynamical polarization, dielectric function, and absorption of radiation in infrared region are…

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The collective excitation spectra are studied for a multisubband quasi-one-dimensional electron gas on the surface of liquid helium. Different intersubband plasmon modes are identified by calculating the spectral weight function of the…

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We investigate the effects of crystal lattice vibrations on the dispersion of plasmons. The loss function of the homogeneous electron gas (HEG) in two and three dimensions is evaluated numerically in presence of electronic coupling to an…

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The power loss $P$ of hot Dirac fermions through the coupling to the intrinsic intravalley and intervalley acoustic and optical phonons is analytically investigated in silicene as a function of electron temperature $T_e$ and density $n_s$.…

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Plasmon excitations in graphene, silicene and germanene are studied using linear-response time dependent density functional theory within the random phase approximation (RPA). Here, we examine both the plasmon dispersion behavior and…

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The effect of screening of the coulomb interaction between two layers of two-dimensional electrons, such as in graphene, by a highly doped semiconducting substrate is investigated. We employ the random-phase approximation to calculate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-15 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang

The optical response of graphene micro-structures, such as micro-ribbons and disks, is dominated by the localized plasmon resonance in the far infrared (IR) spectral range. An ensemble of such structures is usually involved and the effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-19 Hugen Yan , Fengnian Xia , Zhiqiang Li , Phaedon Avouris

We report the dispersion measurements, using angle-resolved reflection electron-energy-loss-spectroscopy (AREELS), on two-dimensional (2D) plasmons in single and multilayer graphene which couple strongly to surface optical phonon (FK…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-03 Yu Liu , Roy F. Willis

We present a computational study of the two-phonon Raman spectra of silicene and graphene within a density-functional non-orthogonal tight-binding model. Due to the presence of linear bands close to the Fermi energy in the electronic…

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