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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

We provide an analytical solution to the problem of scattering of electromagnetic radiation by a square-wave grating with a flat graphene sheet on top. We show that for deep groves there is a strong plasmonic response with light absorption…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-04 N. M. R. Peres , Yuliy V. Bludov , A. Ferreira , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy

In this paper, we analytically study Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPPs) in graphene-based cylindrical structures with gyroelectric layers. In the general waveguide, each graphene layer is surrounded by two various gyro-electric materials.…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-26 Mohammad Bagher Heydari

We exploit the geometry of magnetic nanowires, which define 1D contacts to an encapsulated graphene channel, to introduce an out-of-plane component in the polarisation of spin carriers. By design, the magnetic nanowires traverse the angled…

Graphene, as a two-dimensional magneto-optical material, supports magnetoplasmon polaritons (MPP) when exposed to an applied magnetic field. Recently, MPP of a single-layer graphene has shown an excellent capability in the modulation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Ming-Jian He , Lei Qu , Ya-Tao Ren , Hong Qi , Mauro Antezza , He-Ping Tan

Detailed similarities between polarization states of light and ballistic charge carriers in graphene are derived. Based on these, the optical equivalent of quantum wavefunctions, Dirac equation, and the effect of an electrostatic potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. Dragoman

This paper is devoted to the inverse design of strained graphene surfaces for the control of electrons in the semi-classical optical-like regime. Assuming that charge carriers are described by the Dirac equation in curved-space and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 E. Lorin , F. Fillion-Gourdeau , S. Maclean

The plasmon modes of pristine and impurity doped graphene are calculated, using a real-space theory which determines the non-local dielectric response within the random phase approximation. A full diagonalization of the polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Rodrigo A. Muniz , Hari P. Dahal , A. V. Balatsky , Stephan Haas

Optical forces acting on nano-sized particles are typically too small to be useful for particle manipulation. We theoretically and numerically demonstrate a mechanism that can significantly enhance the optical force acting on a small…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-15 Shubo Wang , C. T. Chan

We analyze intrinsic nonlinearities in two-dimensional polaritonic materials interacting with an optical wave. Focusing on the case of graphene, we show that the second-order nonlinear optical conductivity due to carrier density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Christian Wolff , Christos Tserkezis , N. Asger Mortensen

Plasmon polaritons are formed by coupling light with delocalized electrons. The half-light and half-matter nature of plasmon polaritons endows them with unparalleled tunability via a range of parameters, such as dielectric environments and…

The highly unidirectional excitation of graphene plasmons (GPs) through near-field interference of orthogonally polarized dipoles is investigated. The preferred excitation direction of GPs by a single circularly polarized dipole can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Lei Wang , Wei Cai , Xinzheng Zhang , Jingjun Xu , Yongsong Luo

Superlattices are artificial periodic nanostructures which can control the flow of electrons. Their operation typically relies on the periodic modulation of the electric potential in the direction of electron wave propagation. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Hugen Yan , Xuesong Li , Bhupesh Chandra , George Tulevski , Yanqing Wu , Marcus Freitag , Wenjuan Zhu , Phaedon Avouris , Fengnian Xia

Tunable orbit angular momentum (OAM) of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) is theoretically studied with appropriately designed metasurfaces. By controlling both the orientation angle and spatial position of nano aperture array on an…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-22 Qilong Tan , Qinghua Guo , Hongchao Liu , Xuguang Huang , Shuang Zhang

In this work, we investigated graphene hypersurface (HSF) for the manipulation of THz waves. The graphene HSF structure is consists of a periodic array of graphene unit cells deposited on silicon substrate and terminated by a metallic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Sasmita Dash , Christos Liaskos , Ian F. Akyildiz , Andreas Pitsillides

Electron optics deals with condensed matter platforms for manipulating and guiding electron beams with high efficiency and robustness. Common devices rely on the spatial confinement of the electrons into one-dimensional channels. Recently,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Yuhao Zhao , Anina Leuch , Oded Zilberberg , Antonio Štrkalj

We consider a graphene sheet encapsulated in a two-dimensional metallic grating and a substrate ($\mathrm{Al_{2}O_{3}}$) and subjected to an external magnetic field (in Faraday configuration). The grating consists of a thin perfectly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yu. V. Bludov , M. I. Vasilevskiy , N. M. R. Peres

We theoretically demonstrate the capability of a ferromagnetic-normal (FN) interface in graphene to focus an electron-wave with a certain spin direction. The essential feature is the negative refraction Klein tunneling, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ali G. Moghaddam , Malek Zareyan

We investigate coherent electron dynamics in graphene, interacting with the electric field waveform of two orthogonally polarized, few-cycle laser pulses. Recently, we demonstrated that linearly polarized driving pulses lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-20 Christian Heide , Takuya Higuchi , Heiko B. Weber , Peter Hommelhoff

We evaluate the stopping and image forces on a charged particle moving parallel to a doped sheet of graphene by using the dielectric response formalism for graphene's $\pi$-electron bands in the random phase approximation (RPA). The forces…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 K. F. Allison , D. Borka , I. Radović , Lj. Hadžievski , Z. L. Mišković