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We calculate the low-frequency magnetoplasmon excitation spectrum for a square array of quantum dots on a two-dimensional (2D) graphene layer. The confining potential is linear in the distance from the center of the quantum dot. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Oleg L. Berman , Godfrey Gumbs , P. M. Echenique

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

In this article we perform the quantization of graphene plasmons using both a macroscopic approach based on the classical average electromagnetic energy and a quantum hydrodynamic model, in which graphene charge carriers are modeled as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Beatriz A. Ferreira , B. Amorim , A. J. Chaves , N. M. R. Peres

Graphene plasmons have advantages over noble metal plasmons, such as high tunability and low loss. However, for graphene nanostructures smaller than 10 nm, little is known about their plasmons or whether a regular plasmonic behavior exists,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-16 Bao-Ji Wang , San-Huang Ke , Hai-Qing Lin

The properties of surface plasmons localized at the interface between graphene and kerr-type nonlinear medium in three dimensions are investigated. Compared with surface plasmons at the surface of metal, with the inevitable nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lei Wang , Wei Cai , Xinzheng Zhang , F. J. Garcia de Abajo , Jingjun Xu

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

We theoretically study the dynamic screening properties of bilayer graphene within the random phase approximation assuming quadratic band dispersion and zero gap for the single-particle spectrum. We calculate the frequency dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-18 Rajdeep Sensarma , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We demonstrate theoretically that quantum dots in bilayers of graphene can be realized. A position-dependent doping breaks the equivalence between the upper and lower layer and lifts the degeneracy of the positive and negative momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Milton Pereira , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

We have calculated the plasmon modes in graphene double layer structures at finite temperatures, taking into account the inhomogeneity of the dielectric background of the system. The effective dielectric function is obtained from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 S. M. Badalyan , F. M. Peeters

In this paper we propose and discuss coherent terahertz sources based on charge density wave (plasmon) amplification in two dimensional graphene. The coupling of the plasmons to interband electron-hole transitions in population inverted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Farhan Rana

Self-consistent field theory is used to obtain the non-local plasmon dispersion relation of monolayer graphene which is Coulomb-coupled to a thick conductor. We calculate numerically the undamped plasmon excitation spectrum for arbitrary…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-24 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , N. J. M. Horing

We theoretically investigate the plasmon modes of alternating-twist multilayer graphene. In multilayer systems, interlayer coupling gives rise to distinctive plasmon modes, but calculations in moir\'e systems remain challenging due to their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Taehun Kim , Hongki Min

Modulating the amplitude and phase of light is at the heart of many applications such as wavefront shaping, transformation optics, phased arrays, modulators and sensors. Performing this task with high efficiency and small footprint is a…

Boundaries and edges of a two dimensional system lower its symmetry and are usually regarded, from the point of view of charge transport, as imperfections. Here we present a first study of the behavior of graphene plasmons in a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 Hugen Yan , Zhiqiang Li , Xuesong Li , Wenjuan Zhu , Phaedon Avouris , Fengnian Xia

Plasmons, which are collective charge oscillations, offer the potential to use optical signals in nano-scale electric circuits. Recently, plasmonics using graphene have attracted interest, particularly because of the tunable plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 N. Kumada , S. Tanabe , H. Hibino , H. Kamata , M. Hashisaka , K. Muraki , T. Fujisawa

We report plasmon-enhanced Raman scattering in graphene coupled to a single plasmonic hotspot measured as a function of laser energy. The enhancement profiles of the G peak show strong enhancement (up to $10^5$) and narrow resonances (30…

The theory of optical effects in hydrogenated graphene (graphane) in terahertz and infrared range is developed, including the analysis of complex conductivity, reflection coefficient for graphane on a substrate and dispersion of surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 E. I. Preobrazhensky , I. V. Oladyshkin , M. D. Tokman

The paper deals with the theoretical consideration of surface plasmon-polaritons in the graphene monolayer, embedded into dielectric with spatially separated gain and losses. It is demonstrated, that presence of gain and losses in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 O. A. Zhernovnykova , O. V. Popova , G. V. Deynychenko , T. I. Deynichenko , Yuliy V. Bludov

It has recently been demonstrated that difference frequency mixing (DFM) can generate surface plasmons in graphene [1]. Here, we present detailed calculations comparing the contributions to this effect from substrate and from graphene…

Graphene is used as the thinnest possible spacer between gold nanoparticles and a gold substrate. This creates a robust, repeatable, and stable sub-nanometre gap for massive plasmonic field enhancements. White light spectroscopy of single…